Minette

THE CHOICE GOD GAVE US--LET NO MAN TAKE THAT CHOICE AWAY

Wednesday, 18. March 2009, 03:50:11

As a Christian I am dismayed that God has been banned from so much of America.
But on the other hand I am more often disturbed and dismayed by the extreme, American Christians that want to legislate their morality and force it on every other American.
God Himself gave us free will.
See, He wants us to choose Him.
He hopes that each of us will do that even though He knows not all of us will.
And doesn’t that make good sense anyway?
I mean, does anyone want to FORCE himself or herself on someone they love?
Don’t they want that loved one to WANT to love them back?
If you force someone to spend time with you when they really don’t want to would that be good, quality time?
I don’t think so.
So I totally don’t understand this group of people who want to do just that. Force their morality on every American despite each, individual American’s personal beliefs.
That isn’t spreading The Word, that’s power mongering.
I never did care for power mongering.
My highest power is God. I’ve given my life to Him by choice and not under duress. That’s the way He wants it, by making this choice I am submitting to His will for me.
This type of power mongering isn’t what America stands for and I don’t believe it’s what God stands for either.
Are these people so threatened by thinking and belief systems that are different than theirs? And why would they be anyway? God has made it clear that all they need do is believe in Him, believe in Jesus Christ and that he came and died for our sins so that we could be forgiven and, after accepting Christ as their savior, to then try to live by His Word.
If they do that then they have everlasting life and the heck with those who choose not to believe.
Given that then why is this power struggle happening at all?
It’s one thing to spread God’s Word but it’s another to force the Bible down someone’s throat.
Not only is that not constructive it’s often destructive.
Look how many Catholics that went through the Catholic School system pre-70’s then left their religion by choice.
I’ve heard countless stories of the nun’s using the fear of God and His harsh punishments to keep the students in line as well as corporal punishment.
Many of these kids were NOT taught that God loves them even though they’re sinners and that they will be forgiven through their belief in Christ.
Many were taught that God’s love had a whole lot of conditions.
A certain percentage of those students grew, at worst, to hate a God so harsh and at best, to not want to serve such a God even if they did still believe.
But that isn’t the God of the Bible and the New Testament.
That was something made up by the Catholic School system of days past which is, for the most part, gone now…thank God.
My aunt Mag, God rest her soul, thought that she could earn points towards Heaven through works and getting converts for the Catholic Church.
But God’s gift to us is much simpler than that. It’s so easy it’s almost hard to comprehend.
So if God gives us the free will to make choices why on earth would anyone try taking choices away by using His name to do so?