TEN MIND BLOWING
TRUTHS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY!
By
Bernedette Hood
My daughter who is 14 at the time of me writing this, has been
really questioning her spirituality as of lately. I figured maybe it was her
age or her friends or something that she read. Turns out it was something that
she did read.
She forwarded me an article written by an American Psychologist
called, and get this title:
Evangelical Christianity’s Ten Biggest Mindf*cks. (Click that title to be
taken to her article)
Classy eh.
As my daughter and I sat down and discussed this article
together and using the WORD of God as my guide, I really noticed something very
interesting about the authors tone and how her article came across to me. I am
going to write this portion of my own article giving a response to these 10
statements. It all stemmed from my conversation with daughter.
SOOOOOO, you know the drill. This is my blog, my opinion, my
thoughts and my unalienable right to say whatever I would like. I stand for the
Faith of Jesus Christ! You don’t have to read my blog, and you are most
certainly allowed to disagree, disregard or move on with your bad self at any
time. I am not here to sugar coat anything for you. You have access to your
bibles, go argue scripture with God.
1.
It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship
First and foremost, does it not break your heart to realize
that people still haven’t a clue just how powerful the LOVE of Jesus really is!
Religion is the actions, it’s the rules, the rituals, the
showing out, the outward signs and symbols.
Relationship is the deep heart to heart connection between you
and your Saviour, Jesus. That feeling, that behaviour towards Him, those
actions of love. It is inward, personal, intimate.
Relationship with God is a very special unique connection that
you can’t just get with anyone. It goes beyond any dating experience you have
ever felt. It goes far beyond any sexual intimacy you have ever felt. It is
something that mere words can not describe. This a love between YOUR Creator, YOUR
Saviour, YOUR Kinsman Redeemer!
No religious ceremony can even come close to this connection,
this covenant cut in the Blood of Christ!
WHAT SETS JESUS APART FROM EVERY OTHER GOD
IS GOD
CLAIMED GODHEAD
CAME TO EARTH FOR US
LIVED LIFE LIKE US
EXPERIENCED LIFE LIKE US
SERVED US
LOVED US
SUFFERED FOR US
DIED FOR US
IS THE
ONLY LIVING GOD!
Jesus is very much a real person! He has been written about
for millennia! Hostile, extra biblical sources speak about Jesus! Click on the
names and explore what they said about Jesus.
Thallus (52AD)Tacitus (56-120AD)
Mara Bar-Serapion (70AD)
Phlegon (80-140AD)
Pliny the Younger (61-113AD)
Suetonius (69-140AD)
Lucian of Samosata: (115-200 A.D.)
Here is my question, if you can’t trust the bible and you can’t trust these writers, how than can we trust any historical book? Any book written about Hannibal or Alexander the Great or Ptolemy. How do we believe anything? Are we to cherry pick every historical text now? The bible is the most historically accurate book ever written and is even use today in the field of archaeology.
The author in her article states that the bible dictates what people are to believe, have you ever read, YOU MUST BELIEVE, or was it more like IF. If is good. IF is choice. The bible does not force you to pick it up and read it. It does not say convert or be killed (Quran does) It does not force you to believe the truth. It simply says IF. God will not force you to follow Him. He will offer you an invitation, but He isn’t going to send no whale on land to suck you up and spit you out once you believe. That was for Jonah and him alone.
Heb 11:6, Rom 8:34, 2 Chron 7:14, Heb 4:16, Luke 11:9
(Scroll down when you are taken over to biblegateway.com to see all the scriptures)
You know God doesn’t like that. He is a gentleman; He isn’t going to force you to do anything you don’t want to do. You are free to live your life any way you want to live and by any means you so desire. Whether you choose to follow Him or not is 100% up to you to live your life, GOOD, BAD or INDIFFERENT. Just remember that no matter what you do, there will always be a consequence to your choice.
I will never understand why anyone would not want Jesus. His gift of Salvation was through His own suffering, death and resurrection! I don’t see Buddha on a cross or Mohammad. Remember John 3:16!
2. OLD TESTAMENT
Firstly, THANK YOU JESUS YOU CAME
TO FULFILL THE LAW!
The Law is still here. Jesus didn’t abolish it, He left it
here but His blood fulfilled everything in that law. That Law shows all of us
just how woefully evil and low humanity (me, You, Her) truly are. The Law shows
us how inadequate we humans are and how desperately we need JESUS! We could not
possibly measure ourselves up against the Law! Jesus could! Jesus’s shed blood
at Calvary cleansed ever believer and redeemed us from THE CURSE OF THE LAW!
Now we have Jesus, who knew even before we were how we could never measure up
to the Law. He
stands firmly between the Old Testament (Old Covenant) and the New Testament
(New Covenant). The New Covenant, covered and cut in His precious blood that
makes us innocent of all charges and sins before God the Father! Trust me, I
need it! If you knew how many of the 10 commandments I have broken, you know, I
needed a Saviour!
Just a reminder that Laws are made to guide you. It’s pretty
sad that God had to write in Stone “THOU SHALT NOT MURDER”. Without law there
is chaos. With God there is Order.
3.
YES, NO, MAYBE (Prayer)
Prayer is a very private and personal experience with people
and God and YES there are times that God does not give us the answer we want
and yes there are times we feel that God is ignoring us. He isn’t. He has heard.
Thing is, we are so self-centred that we only look at the
times we believe that our prayers were not answered verse the great many times
that they were. Have you ever stopped
and looked back at all the times God answered your prayers spoken and unspoken?
For me, my husband coming home every week from a long haul,
safe and unharmed. Being paid on time, having unexpected cheques showing up in
the mail, having someone buy me a coffee, having someone invite me for dinner, walking
away from a head on collision, my daughter being born perfect and healthy! So
much that God does for you and you didn’t even have to ask!
In 1981, my brother was killed in a motor vehicle accident. He
was 18. I know a lot of people immediately blame God for his death. But
consider this: Isaiah 57: 1 THE RIGHTEOUS PERISH
AND NO MAN LAYETH IT TO HEART: AND MERCIFUL MEN ARE TAKEN AWAY, NONE
CONSIDERING THAT THE RIGHTEOUS IS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE EVIL TO COME.
King Hezekiah was on his death bed. He was sick, he was dying,
he was crying. He was told by the prophet Isaiah to get ready to die but Hezekiah
cried out to God and God gave him another 15 years. Those 15 years turned out to
be the worst 15 years for Hezekiah. His death would have prevented a whole string
of bad events. Death is not a thing to
be feared! Jesus has overcome the grave!
Next, God, like any good parent knows what is best for you and
when you make your request known to Him, He weighs it out like any good father
and looks to see whether is will be beneficial to you or detrimental. Did it
occur to you that maybe what you are asking for could potentially harm you?
Trust God, He will give you what you need!
4.
Be Selfless for your own sake
This baffles my mind. Why on earth would this be a BIGGEST
MINDF*CK??? Being a servant keeps you humble, it keeps you focused, it helps
you see others before you see yourself. It is a good thing. I would assume that
being humble and kind would be a great attribute!
Gal 5:22-23, 1 John 4:8, Rom 3:10, James 4:6, Ps 25:9, James 4:10
Gal 5:22-23, 1 John 4:8, Rom 3:10, James 4:6, Ps 25:9, James 4:10
5.
Christianity is Humble
First, the scripture she misquoted here is “Pride goes before
DESTRUCTION…”. So, with that right there, can anyone tell why HUMILITY is a
must?
Walking in pride destroys your witness. Pride ruins your goals
and is most unhelpful. A prideful arrogant person is someone you never want to
be around. They are the ones who argue everything and anything to their
benefit. They can suck the happy out of anyone.
Who needs Jesus when you can save yourself?
6.
Christianity isn’t Sexist…blah
blah blah
Ugh. Why is this even a thing anymore. Seriously? Wrap your minds
around this ladies; here is a fact: the world we live in today IS NOT the world
God had intended for us! But because of sin, things changed! In todays world,
gender roles are so far beyond messed up that a “PERSON” born with a PENIS is a
GIRL!?
God’s perfect world, is NOT what we are living in today or
yesteryear either. In the world to come, and thank the Lord we have this hope! When
this old earth passes away, so does all the sin and filth! In the next world,
do you realize there will be no more marriage!
Basic biology before we go deeper: Gen
1:28 God makes a command to Adam and his wife Eve to be fruitful and multiple.
The LGBT read Adam and Steve or Lydia and Eve… Neither of those two couples can
keep the command of the LORD to be fruitful and multiple. God need a male and
female to increase our numbers! That is nature, that is simple biology, and
science fact. You need a living sperm from a man and an egg from a woman to
make the most beautiful creation, a child. I’m sorry to say that God did not create man for
man or woman for woman but man for woman and woman for man. It is the natural
order of things. Now if you are of the LGBT… persuasion, does this mean God
hates you? NO! NO! AND DOUBLE NO!!!!!!!! God loves all His children; He just doesn’t
like your sin but here is a kicker, He doesn’t like mine either. So now we have
choices to make. Do we continue in our sins or do we not? That is free will which
we will address later.
Now moving along her comments, we see that she thinks women
are underdogs in the bible. I guess she has over looked virtually every society,
culture out there that has ever made a woman a second-class citizen! There are
2 different societies, a matriarchy or a patriarchy and I’m gonna let you guess
how things roll in those two towns. I wondered if the author has taken a look
at modern day China that kills most of the female children born. So much so,
that the men out number the women! In Iran, women are treated less than animals
and ritually murder them, but shhhhhh we must attack the history of Jews!
I’m looking at my lovely daughter planted on the couch, wearing
her pj’s and playing some weird stone game on her phone thinking to myself, how
blessed is she that God chose me to be her mom! Could you imagine had she been conceived
in a Chinese woman’s womb? She has a higher risk of death with her than with me.
She could have been born to an Iranian woman and sold at the age of 7 to an old
pervert! But no! She is my daughter and gosh darn the horrible God I serve made
her a Canadian!? Evil!!!! EVIL!!! Sorry, I just found that her comments were a
whole lot “Helmet special”. The author is so blessed to have been born to a
Christian family in the USA and has had the benefit of being educated, and
loved and cared for while so many other women will NEVER know what our kind of
Freedom really is, but the author wants to harp on fallible male thinking.
I live outside ancient history, I live outside of biblical history, but here is a really cool thing, I get to know these ancient societies and I get to learn about the lives of many people who would otherwise be forgotten to history. Eve, the first woman, the giver of life, my mother. Deborah, a might wise woman. Ruth, an obedient servant, Mary, mother of Jesus. Bernedette (me), Daughter of the KING!
I live outside ancient history, I live outside of biblical history, but here is a really cool thing, I get to know these ancient societies and I get to learn about the lives of many people who would otherwise be forgotten to history. Eve, the first woman, the giver of life, my mother. Deborah, a might wise woman. Ruth, an obedient servant, Mary, mother of Jesus. Bernedette (me), Daughter of the KING!
Ps
68:11 tells me that God is speaking to women and guess what? While the men
are tending the folks at the church, you and I are to SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS OF
THE GOSPEL!!! We are not locked down to a church ladies, we can tell everyone
who will listen, man, woman or child, the good news of Jesus and point them
back to a church where they can be taught and grow in faith and go out and make
more disciples for Christ! I don’t care if I ever speak in a church, I’m groovy
if I do, groovy if I don’t, I’m speaking you right now from the comfort of my
own living room with my hair up and my green plaid pj’s and Hamilton Tigercats
sweat shirt on!!!
7.
Believe and be saved
Going all the way back to the first point, you have a choice. It
is 100% up to you to lead your own your life! As I see it, I simply can not
fathom how anyone would not want to have a relationship with God! As my favourite
evangelist said and let me quote this in caps ladies “WHAT IN HELL DO YOU NEED?”
Why would you not take the free gift of salvation? It costs you a lot less than
it did Jesus!
Here is the catch though, believing in God makes you
accountable to someone greater than you. It takes the focus off you, makes you
HUMBLE, breaks your bondages and brings you order in your chaos. Who would not
want that?
Peace? Contentment? Accountability? Order? Humility? Love?
Relationship? VICTORY???
I was sold at PEACE!!!
What I have noticed, people are far to comfortable in their
misery. They like victim-hood and chaos. They want an excuse like the other of
the article to walk in offense! They like to feel like they have been wronged by
the whole entire church as a collective and look down their prideful noses and
revel in their pseudo intellectual bull pucky. The author, right from the first
letter of her obscene title article, I knew even before reading that this lady
had a whole world of hurt from church and family! Even before I read her credentials
I knew she was a secular humanist and there for her article would be nothing
more than a good old fashion once over boot licking of Christianity. See,
instead of taking her hurt to the foot of the cross she allowed for that hurt
to fester and grow in her heart. It’s far easier to walk in offense than it is
for forgiveness.
Lady, the person who hurt you was WRONG! I am here to tell you
that they were sent by the enemy as a wolf in sheep’s cloths to destroy your
walk with the LORD and so far they have won that battle, but the war is no
where near over for you! People like these wolves go into churches and like the
devil, seek to find those they can devour. This article screams HURT! Lady, you
have to know, GOD DID NOT HURT YOU, The weak willed peon of the devil did. They
allowed the devil to use them to abuse you.
8.
God loves you and he’ll send you to hell
Nope. That choice is 100% on you. God created Hell for the
devil and his angels, not for people.
God wants everyone to coming to saving, redeeming knowledge of
Jesus. This is precisely WHY He sent His Son, part of Him to earth, to die for
you so that you had a choice to go which ever way you decide. God will love you
through all eternity, you just didn’t love Him!
9.
Free Choice under Duress
Remember I said we would address freewill? Remember it was
Jesus’s FREEWILL that keep Him nailed to that cross! Jesus exercised His
freewill by willingly dying an extremely horrific death, knowing that His sacrifice
would bridge the gap for you to cross over into abundant life!
See, had Jesus chose not to go willing to the slaughter, your
sins would be counted against you! You are worthy death my friend! So am I.
Mohammad did not die for his followers, Buddha did not die for
his followers, but Jesus did!
The difference in Christianity, God loved us so much that He made
the way for us to be blameless before in Jesus.
If you had to die for someone, could you die for someone that
hurt you?
10. Lean not
on your own understanding
Let me nutshell this one for ya: LOCK DOORS KEEP HONEST
PEOPLE HONEST.
The bible tells us clearly that man’s natural thoughts are
evil! Why? SIN!!! Before we became born again, we were of our father, the devil
who is nothing more than a lying, thieving, rattle snake, and so were we.
The author of this obscenely title article is a psychologist,
who no doubt had to study and learn her occupation from a bunch of different
teachers. Each one of her teachers taught her something and she had to learn
from opinions, develop her thinking and reasoning from many, many sources. I am
willing to bet she probably read more books on behavioural sciences then I have
driven backwards uphill and yet she clearly over looks the most obvious fact
that God – Jesus – Holy Spirit – Bible are the best teachers around.
The bible is more than just a book of do’s and don’ts, it is a
book written to guide you through your life. When you are learning anything for
any vocation, the best way is to learn from someone with more experience than
you. Who do you know who has infinite wisdom and understanding? What ALL
KNOWING, ALL SEEING, EVER PRESENT GOD could ever possibly know something more
than you, who wants to love you and all he asks is for your love in return?
That’s some deal.
When you bring God’s thoughts into your own thoughts, that
little pixel you have been fixated on becomes part of a bigger and better
picture! What the author fails to realize is that Life with God is so much better
than life without God!
Can you imagine how much more productive a psychologist could
be if she aligned her thoughts with the Lords?
Today ladies, why don’t you ask for the Lord to impart to you,
wisdom and revelations! Ask Him to share with you something new that you have
never known!
