Christianity is a religion that requires personal responsibility with accountability to our creator for our choices.
There are many (if not most) so called Christians that use God as both an excuse for bad choices and as a 'get out of hell free' card for sinful ones. Both of these ideas are a false gospel and give the convert a false sense of non accountability. They act like any bad thing they do is not their fault because of their "nature" and any good thing they do should be attributed only to God. There is a dual ideology rampant in the church. The stupidity of this is obvious to any thinking person.
It is a fatal doctrine that tells a person that being a "Christian" consists of believing that Jesus is real and died on a cross makes you exempt from responsibility and consequence. "God told me" has been used as an excuse to commit many stupid acts and even some atrocious ones. God is not the voice leading these people.
You cannot say a magic prayer and live the rest of your life in sin and be a Christian. This empty lie has been sending people to hell since the beginning of time.
The smart man will see how weak and empty this is and reject this type of "Christianity".
The wise man will see that this is but a shadow of the truth used by the enemy to lead man astray and go past it to a much deeper truth.
Man can know God.
To be a Christian you must NOT be a lover of sin and worldliness. Sin and God are polar opposites.
Jesus came to save us from sin, here and now. It is not the born again child of God's "nature" to follow evil.
He did not come so that you can live your life in bondage and misery, just to slide into Heaven once you finally die.
If the afterlife is all that matters to God Jesus would not have come to EARTH in Human flesh and showed us how to Live in the physical here and now.
He could have sent some angels to write us a book of guidelines and rules and then left mankind to their own devices.
He chose to personally, walk with man. He is a personal God that gives His personal spirit to us for strength and guidance. He does not leave us to do it alone but he does not take away our ability to ignore Him and choose a life of waste.
The "church" and worldly church people are sending the youth to Hell in a hand basket by telling them that the "repeat after me" prayer makes them a Christian. It's a nice start but it it not the same thing as following Christ.
If your Christian faith has consisted of a historical belief, blind acceptance, fear or excuses, you have not yet been a born again Christian. You have not known the person of Jesus or felt the hand of God turn you into a new man.
If a person believes that they have done all there is to do and God is supposed to use them as a hand puppet for the rest of their life they will eventually ignore God altogether and often hate the very idea of Christianity.
Christians seem to love blaming God for everything that they do wrong or don't understand. They are often too lazy to study the reasons why we should believe a thing and would rather tell the skeptic to "just have faith". This is not Christianity!
You were created in the image of God. You have a mind and are responsible to use it. Yes, God will help you and guide you, if you seek Him with your whole heart. You have a very short life on this planet. If you make selfish, stupid or wicked choices you will reap the consequences, actual Christianity does not say otherwise.
Truly, I emphasize to you, if being a "Christian" does not make you different than those that reject God there would be no point to it. Our goal is to reach humanity NOW, to love God and our brothers NOW, to be free Now. Heaven will be an amazing place. Don't think that you can live like the devil and still get there just because you acknowledged the reality of Jesus, even Satan does that.
If you have loved a life of sin while claiming Christianity you have not been a Christian.
A man that is filled with the Spirit of Christ has the mindset of Christ. They see the world differently. They see sin as an ugly, poisonous thing, not inevitable or appealing. They don't excuse or ignore the things that God hates.
If you have been taught by people that have not lived a life of peace and victory, that love righteousness and hate sin, you have not been taught by people of God.
Don't assume that everyone that claims the title "Christian" is a sin loving hypocrite. Do not assume that because most people are preaching a cheap gospel that that is the Christian faith.
Colossians 3:5-6So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world. Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming.
There are few people that have their hearts filled with the passion and joy that comes from actually seeking and knowing Christ; few, but they are still out there.