The Unchristian Christian

A couple of friends and I were in a bit of a heated debate a couple days ago. It didn't start out heated of course, but once it started to get heated we did all take a deep breath and no punches were thrown. At least at that time.

The debate: Religion. Who is God? Who was Jesus?

You see, one of my close friends is Jewish, which means (to sum it up quickly) that he doesn't believe in the New Testament, and believes that Jesus is not the Son of God, etc.

Personally, I try to have an open mind. There are alot of things that can be proven historically that make me to question the validity of some things in the new testament. Even just one thing, for example, is that there was no "Jesus" 2000 years ago. It was "Yeshua". There is no "J" in the ancient Hebrew language.

Research just WHY the name was changed to Jesus from Yeshua. You'll  be suprised. Research why some of the original books that were written at that time are not included in our "New Testament". Google why there even is a "King James" version.

The drama and mystery goes on and on.

All that can get in the way of what we really were created to do though, which is love God. All the ifs, ands, whys, hows, buts, and all the gory details of exactly "what you are SUPPOSED TO DO" and "how you are SUPPOSED TO DO IT" all just politicize religion.

I look at it this way. A guy was trying his hardest to 'fit in' to his church group/family yet he was always not doing something correctly, or told that he should be doing something else in order to be a 'better Christian'. He felt he never could do the right things. One day he walked outside of the church and saw a man sitting on the steps. As he got closer he said "you getting fed up with church too?". The man, Jesus, turned around and said "don't feel bad - they don't want me in there either"