Khristians...

Sneeuwziel your right. That's why i choose "ServantofTheLight".
I must say honestly, i has a period that i didnt realize who I'm really are.
In that period was a big chaos in me, which comes from satan. Also he gives me the false abuse that oh i'm christian so i have to tell others how it will be better for them, and what they do, is wrong. satan likes to get you on your weak moments and things..cuse by this he used my careness to others and tat i really always wanna be helpfull to people. But i did totally forget:

1(A) "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2(B) For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and(C) with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but(D) do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

We don't have the right, our judgement is not to trust.
Well, it was a difficult period but also very learning.

In that period i also has alot of difficultness with praying. I feel a really hard rejection to it. And then i realize that I'm on a wrong path and with the rejection inside i has pray. By the Lord im free of it since some months but its hard to not fall again into it and im still see that i have the intention to do that ot even act like that.

here is a passage from the book of 1 John... it deals with this subject in a harsh manner.

Quote :

1 John 2
9Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. 10Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him[c] to make him stumble. 11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

1 John is great, as it deals with Hypocricy in a harsh manner too... we have to walk as Jesus did.
but by proxie, if we hate our brother, we are a hypocrite... since we are not walking as Jesus did.

Jesus gladly accepts the shame of having you take his name, and you are far from perfect, why do we balk so much at the shame of being associated with the others that have taken Christs name, another way of looking at it is the church is Christs bride, and we are a part of it, but when we hate the church, we hate Christs bride...

of course now we have this huge can of worms dealing with who is "Christs bride' etc...

1 john also deals with that subject...

Quote :

1 John 2
18Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.[d] 21I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son. 23No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

anyway, i am not trying to condemn anyone, I just have had God really deal with me concerning my view of the "Church" and this is part of what i have learned....
sometimes the verse about love your brother has angered me, sometimes i understand it.
i just keep praying to God about it and dealing with my heart as I can.

(Y) Good things you say, and totally right.

Sebat, I like your post a lot.

At one time I didn't like to call myself a christian,
yet nowadays I don't mind.
I am a follower of Christ and I let the love of God lead me.

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