Thoughts about different beliefs, particularly about lifestyle ones, but even others that are not fundamental (as much as they might seem to those who hold them).
Why do Christians believe so strongly contradictorily?
Why do sincere Christians have unshakable and unchangable disagreements?
Who is right?
....or does it matter.
Obviously, in some issues, one of them is right. BUT, in other issues, it might really not matter...
But I have a feeling we will never know here on this earth. So how do you reconcile such conflict?
What is that to thee? Follow thou Me. John 21:22
Maybe God purposely leads us in different paths because we are different and his purposes are bigger and all-encompassing.
Am I making sense?
Seems like Romans 14 has alot to say about this too. Excerpts:
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth.
10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother?
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
It was hard to choose - the whole chapter is powerful.
I've let up on alot of minor beliefs I used to hold quite strongly. Simply because they shouldn't matter as much. It's the fundamentals that really matter.
And not only that, but we should focus more on obeying Jesus than figuring out the rules for this and that.
ok, that's it for now. more thoughts are rolling about but not formulated yet.
I often think about this song when people end up having a conflicting or insufficient vision of God because they try to fit Him into their box of beliefs.
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