Okay, I'll start by saying that these are only my opinions. I am not trying
to firce my beliefs on anyone. I'd also like to say that if you plan on
leaving me email and crap like that telling me I need to find God, then
I'll just respond as my good bug Matti would… "I know where God is. He's in
my back pocket." Please don't give me flak about this. I know what the
bible says and I know how everyone thinks God works.
I'm the average P.K (preacher's kid) I am, however different than most in that I didn't totally rebel. I only sought to find my own beliefs and refused to be forced into a religion that I didn't agree with. The whole time, I did know one thing. There was a God. There was one God, that sent his son to die for us. I believe that. But what about all these rules that people live by? Why do people make God out to be some uptight old fart?
In my head, my image of God is just a normal guy. Someone to talk to. And someone who doesn't really care about all the stuff that normal christians do. I don't mean he doesn't care, but that it isn't really important to "try and make yourself holy like him." God made us to be perfect. But he knows that we aren't. why would he try and make us what we aren't? I think that he knows we're beautiful even though we make mistakes. I think true beauty isn't in perfection, it is in the flaws that we have.
Concerning the bible, and the rules. I don't go by the bible. It's like a reference book. An encyclopedia, if you will. You don't go to an encyclopedia to write an entire biography, do you? No, you should go right to the source. That would be God in this case. The bible is how Man sees God. The way I know my actions are right or wrong is to simply pray on it. God will tell you when you're wrong.
This is all the ranting I got for now. I know I'll think of more later…
I'm the average P.K (preacher's kid) I am, however different than most in that I didn't totally rebel. I only sought to find my own beliefs and refused to be forced into a religion that I didn't agree with. The whole time, I did know one thing. There was a God. There was one God, that sent his son to die for us. I believe that. But what about all these rules that people live by? Why do people make God out to be some uptight old fart?
In my head, my image of God is just a normal guy. Someone to talk to. And someone who doesn't really care about all the stuff that normal christians do. I don't mean he doesn't care, but that it isn't really important to "try and make yourself holy like him." God made us to be perfect. But he knows that we aren't. why would he try and make us what we aren't? I think that he knows we're beautiful even though we make mistakes. I think true beauty isn't in perfection, it is in the flaws that we have.
Concerning the bible, and the rules. I don't go by the bible. It's like a reference book. An encyclopedia, if you will. You don't go to an encyclopedia to write an entire biography, do you? No, you should go right to the source. That would be God in this case. The bible is how Man sees God. The way I know my actions are right or wrong is to simply pray on it. God will tell you when you're wrong.
This is all the ranting I got for now. I know I'll think of more later…