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Forgetting about the man in the mirror

Those of you with children or adolescent teenagers or those of you married to big kids (I pity my wife!) will no doubt know that it is frustrating when they don’t follow through on a commitment or a task that they promised. Look no further than me - guilty, your Honour. Well, there’s a great many more of us who do the same to God. Imagine what God feels like when we say yes to His face, but then go away and immediately fail to follow through or run in the opposite direction?

Take Jonah, for instance, whom God charged to preach repentance to the people of Nineveh. And what did Jonah do? He ran away, defying God Himself. Futile, Jonah. Futile. When… Continue reading Forgetting about the man in the mirror

Christianity - a religion of hypocrisy?

Hypocrite [hip-oh-krit]: n. a person who pretends to be what he or she is not.

Linking back to my previous post (Moral standards and hypocrisy), I thought I would expand a little on the theme of the cartoon in a kind of broad Christian context.

In Christianity, there are two types of hypocrites.

1). There are those who know that they will always stumble to achieve God’s standard if they rely on their own efforts - even sheer will-power cannot make them immune from their own depravity and sin. These are the types who, when they acknowledge that they have sinned against God, genuinely repent and seek forgiveness - firstly, from God and secondly, from those whom they have offended/hurt by their actions. Having sought forgiveness… Continue reading Christianity - a religion of hypocrisy?

Cartoon: Moral standards and hypocrisy

I saw this cartoon up on CrossExamined Blog and had to share it here.

How high are your moral standards?

There is a whole series of posts/articles in this one cartoon alone, don’t you agree?

It also illustrates the standpoint that I believe most critics of Christians/Christianity take - they look at the sins Christians commit and then label them hypocrites for doing them as it violates God’s moral standards. Yet, any good Christian already knows he is hypocritical to the core by that definition … what else do you think the story of the Gospel about?!…

Why Christians Suck

When I first professed my Christian faith, I was hungry for all the Christian related material that I could get my hands on. Being at Uni, I spent long hours deep into the night at the Uni computer labs, buried in the guts of the Arts building. There, I would plug away at the Internet, researching spiritual topics as they came to mind - looking for the Christian Continue reading Why Christians Suck