I only put up articles and diary extracts that are directly related to my personal life experience and hardships encountered, which I have identified with. I’m not here to please people, but to voice my honest thoughts. So for those that think my opinions are too strong, well, I don’t mean to offend anyone personally. I do not claim to do great stuff for mankind, and I do not even claim myself to be a good Christian. Frankly speaking, I do not admire Christians that preaches but never does what they say or is never tries to apply the principles into their everyday lives. But I’ve seen many people like that around. I myself am not capable of incorporating Christian principles & values 24hrs/day, 7 days/week, but I do not pretend that I do, whereas some others pretend they do when they don’t. Worse still, some actually fail to see that themselves because their vision is occluded by many things, such as proudness, self-centeredness/ self-absorption, self-deception, denial, fear etc. But this is the real world, and as Christians, we are supposed to love everyone regardless, which I found extremely hard to do. With sin ever present in the world, Christians are probably all hypocrites to varying extents whether we like it or not, I’m afraid, as we can never be perfect, and yet we are obliged to spread God’s word around. One who claims he/she is able to do everything he/she preaches 24/7 have serious deficits in their knowledge of the fundamentals of Christianity. We can only strive to do our best, and that will never be perfect. And do not think that you can just sit there and pray & pray and get what you want… you need to work hard for it yourself at the same time.
“They look, but do not see, and they listen, but do not hear or understand.” Matthew 13.13. I found this verse very true, especially in relation to my past experience. There are many words of God which do not make sense to me (or it may make sense but I might not recognize its significance) unless I’ve encountered an experience relating me those words first hand.
Another quizzing aspect, which often crossed my mind and I’ve never have an answer for, is, Christians are supposed to leave their lives to God and let God take control. However, how do we know when something is really “meant by God”, or when something just happened because you wanted it so much that you made it happen, and subsequently you put it down as it being meant by God?
I definitely do not guarantee the accuracy of what I say in my extracts, or claim these extracts to be God driven: one can only determine that through a solid knowledge of God’s words in the bible and regular prayers. Blogs are for voicing opinions and exchanging ideas.
- Oct 17 Tue 2006 08:58
Christians: Are we all just hypocrites?
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