Mithmeoi

My Beliefs

I am a Christian, I believe in God and have accepted Jesus as my redeemer. I don’t follow a certain denomination. Over the years people have told me how irrational it is for me to believe in someone/something that I cannot see and have no evidence of. Which I’d like to correct as I have seen evidence in my own life. The times when life has been hardest I have felt God’s presence strongly. When I’ve been stuck making a tough decision and find that I’m questioning myself, I turn to Him and ask him for guidance, to calm me down, and He does. I get a certain peace, which is really hard to describe, but it’s such a huge comfort. There have been times where it’s clear to me that He does exist because of the people that have been brought into my life…there’s no way I could have met them by random chance.

I believe that when someone dies they either go to heaven or to hell, there is no in between and there’s no coming back once you’ve passed into either one.  All humans are by nature sinners, meaning we do things we shouldn’t, and sin is something God cannot tolerate.  As such sin cannot be let into heaven with God, and that is why God sent his son, Jesus, to earth as a sacrifice for that sin.  The only thing that will take away sins is Jesus.  By asking him to forgive you of any wrong doings you have done and asking him to come into your life He will take away that punishment of forever being separated from God.

Pre-destination, do I believe in it? Yes…and no. I believe that God can and does see all the possible outcomes of life, but because He gives us a free will it is us that ultimately decide how our life turns out. However I think that God intervenes from time to time to nudge us in a certain direction or to bring certain people or opportunities into our lives. At those moments it’s up to us what we decide to do.

I’ve had people also ask me why I don’t preach at them. Simple, I don’t enjoy being preached at or judged, and I stick to a treat others as you would have them treat you.  It’s not anyone’s place to judge another, only God is the one to judge for He is the only being that is totally truly fair and just.  I dislike when someone starts waving their religion/beliefs in my face having total disregard for what I believe in; therefore I respect others’ beliefs just as I would like to have mine respected.  Let’s face it, if someone comes up to you and starts telling you you are going to burn in hell and you need to repent now would you really want to listen to them?

I prefer to let my actions speak for me, as in let the love of God show through my actions.  Sometimes people will just pick up on something, I’ve been told they see something different in me and am asked about it sometimes.  This, then opens up the door to me telling them about my faith.  If I’m asked about my beliefs I will answer and try to give a good response to the best of my knowledge and ability.   I will try to help that person to understand what I believe and why.   I find this is much better than just randomly bombarding someone who has no interest at all, since that is most often more of a turn off to the faith than anything else.