The Christianity I Believe In
In the recent days of trying to figure out some ethical matters, I felt it right to make a list like this when I came to one of my answers. This is the Christianity I believe in, though part of this takes like a list I read somewhere else about the kind of God this one priest didn't believe in, so this is my thoughts on Christianity as I follow it.
The Christianity I follow in doesn't make it a point to make sure you know than your better than someone cause you follow it. In fact, its very strongly discouraged.
The Christianity I follow in doesn't believe in being showy about the good you do, in fact, it invalidates the point of doing if it thats why you do it.
The Christianity I follow doesn't exclude or include people based on whether or not they believe in evolution or not.
The Christianity I follow doesn't make me wear a white shirt, tie, and nice pants all the time and always walk around with a smile and a Bible all day and everywhere.
The Christianity I follow deals with other things than whether or not someone is gay. Furthermore, the Christianity I follow doesn't use a few passages as an excuse to monger hate for a group of people, especially when more important sources, ie Jesus, say to be loving to those who would have been considered to have fallen away. Even furthermore, I think Jesus would be more pissed at the people who would shut the doors to someone who is gay, than someone who would have sinned in their homosexuality as it is. I can get really technical here, but won't.
The Christianity I follow doesn't say I should always vote Republican, actually, politics aren't that important.
The Christianity I follow doesn't have this wierd preoccupation with sex. In fact, sex is considered a good thing.
The Christianity I follow discourages slander and gossiping, though I am probably a bit guilty of this. It also tends to speak a lot about being careful how you judge others, most specifically, don't judge others of things you yourself are guilty of.
The Christianity I believe in encourages you to be loving to those even who are mean to you. Loving doesn't mean you like them. Loving means you will be benevolent. At least Im really sure of this.
The Christianity I believe in makes it a point to be pure of heart, or, a good person inside too, as an extension, it is fully possible to be a good person outside, but pure evil inside.
The Christianity I follow believes in forgiving others their trangressions against you, the way you'd like to be forgiven.
The Christianity I believe in encourages you to think about what you believe, not follow it blindly.
The Christianity I follow believes in a God who cares, not one who is looking for reasons to condemn.
The Christianity I follow believes that praying will help, maybe not in obvious, but in at least such a way as you know someone who loves you is listening. This has helped me a lot.
The Christianity I believe in doesn't take well to people who think they are better than everyone else. Nor does it upon those who wish evil on others.
The Christianity I believe in doesn't believe that because it was in the Bible, it was inherantly true, ie, the Bible was written by man about God, (This gets really tricky depending on who you speak about it with)
and probably the last for now, The God I believe in would rather you feed the meat from a cow to a homeless person, than it be sacrified. (More applied in OT, but still holds in concept.)
Thats all i can think of for now.
Edit: The Christianity I follow has rules that serve a purpose. Not arbitrary ones.
The Christianity I follow doesn't need to be in a church, not necessarily abide by the teachings of current ones.
The Christianity should make more of an effort to reach out to people who believe other faiths than criticize them.
The Christianity I follow in doesn't make it a point to make sure you know than your better than someone cause you follow it. In fact, its very strongly discouraged.
The Christianity I follow in doesn't believe in being showy about the good you do, in fact, it invalidates the point of doing if it thats why you do it.
The Christianity I follow doesn't exclude or include people based on whether or not they believe in evolution or not.
The Christianity I follow doesn't make me wear a white shirt, tie, and nice pants all the time and always walk around with a smile and a Bible all day and everywhere.
The Christianity I follow deals with other things than whether or not someone is gay. Furthermore, the Christianity I follow doesn't use a few passages as an excuse to monger hate for a group of people, especially when more important sources, ie Jesus, say to be loving to those who would have been considered to have fallen away. Even furthermore, I think Jesus would be more pissed at the people who would shut the doors to someone who is gay, than someone who would have sinned in their homosexuality as it is. I can get really technical here, but won't.
The Christianity I follow doesn't say I should always vote Republican, actually, politics aren't that important.
The Christianity I follow doesn't have this wierd preoccupation with sex. In fact, sex is considered a good thing.
The Christianity I follow discourages slander and gossiping, though I am probably a bit guilty of this. It also tends to speak a lot about being careful how you judge others, most specifically, don't judge others of things you yourself are guilty of.
The Christianity I believe in encourages you to be loving to those even who are mean to you. Loving doesn't mean you like them. Loving means you will be benevolent. At least Im really sure of this.
The Christianity I believe in makes it a point to be pure of heart, or, a good person inside too, as an extension, it is fully possible to be a good person outside, but pure evil inside.
The Christianity I follow believes in forgiving others their trangressions against you, the way you'd like to be forgiven.
The Christianity I believe in encourages you to think about what you believe, not follow it blindly.
The Christianity I follow believes in a God who cares, not one who is looking for reasons to condemn.
The Christianity I follow believes that praying will help, maybe not in obvious, but in at least such a way as you know someone who loves you is listening. This has helped me a lot.
The Christianity I believe in doesn't take well to people who think they are better than everyone else. Nor does it upon those who wish evil on others.
The Christianity I believe in doesn't believe that because it was in the Bible, it was inherantly true, ie, the Bible was written by man about God, (This gets really tricky depending on who you speak about it with)
and probably the last for now, The God I believe in would rather you feed the meat from a cow to a homeless person, than it be sacrified. (More applied in OT, but still holds in concept.)
Thats all i can think of for now.
Edit: The Christianity I follow has rules that serve a purpose. Not arbitrary ones.
The Christianity I follow doesn't need to be in a church, not necessarily abide by the teachings of current ones.
The Christianity should make more of an effort to reach out to people who believe other faiths than criticize them.