Thoughts on Christianity

I have come to notion that Christians do not understand what they believe in. Let me clarify what I mean by 'believe in'. I am not referring to Christians beliefs like Jesus is the Messiah. The son of God that died for everyone sins or that God is Good and made everything and everyone. 

What I am referring to is how Christians do not understand the imputations of those beliefs.

Christians claim that there is one God and that he had a son Jesus born of a virgin. God is all powerful and all knowing. Moreover he is Good, perfect in every way and loving. Jesus is the son that came to earth to save humanity. Most Christians believe that Jesus and God are the same thing. Also, they have idea of the holy spirit which acts something like the voice of God that speaks to people. This is also a part of God. This belief is called the trinity 'God the Father', 'God the Son' and 'God the Holy Spirit'. All one and same being. 

While this was not always the case. Arianism at one time was a very popular teaching. Arianism believed that Jesus was subordinate entity. Different form God the father. With  First Council of Nicaea the teaching became a heretical. Afterwards the leadership and followers where killed or exiled. While there was some holdouts over the years. Arianist slowed and died out. Thus the idea is that God and Jesus are same thing became Dogma. It is one of the basic and most important of Christian teachings. God came to earth as the son to die for our sins. 

God died for our sins. It is an odd thought 'sin' or that a God died. Sin is taken to be anything that people do that is 'bad' while the bible points to certain things that are sinful. Within the faiths sin simply means bad things that people do. Thought or actions. But the concept of sin goes beyond just doing or thinking bad. Christianity has the notion of original sin hanging as a specter over it. Original sin is the idea that the first man and woman disobeyed God thus sinned. Due to that every human has been cursed with sin since. All people are born sinful. Meaning all people are born bad. 

Basically original sin explains why the world is that way it is. Because of the actions of the first humans the whole of humanity has been cursed with an evil world. Why do bad things happen to go people. Its simple humanity is bad, it is a 'fallen' race. It explains away why a loving God allows for evil. It is not his fault but that of his creation. 

So God killed himself because people are bad. It is a puzzling idea. God is the creator all knowing and all powerful. So he knew that humans would sin. So to remedy this he killed him by having the Romans do it for him. A blood sacrifice. I fail to understand why this was needed. I understand to concept it is an act of love. People are bad God died to fix this and if you believe it happened when you die you will go and be with God forever.

All very strange ideas. When I think about this I cannot help but to think it all very arrogant and cruel.

You see if you claim that Jesus is God. Then say that by dying Jesus saved us form the sins of our forefathers. All you need to is believe and be faithful to God. So that when you die you will life forever.

This is the system that God made and it is cruel. Instead of ending the pain and suffering with the world with the death of Jesus. God instead made it carry on but with the kicker being that you just had to have faith in him. Oh yeah Jesus healed some blind people, turned water into wine, and brought a dead man back to life. But he didn't end all illness nor did he stop blindness form ever happening again. Outside of a handful of miracles he left the world the way he found it.

The system God has is cruel. It cannot be said enough. Because of the actions of people that no one living has ever known. God damned all of humanity. He did not give those living the same choice that he gave Adam and Eve. No they failed, but he already knew that was going to happen because he is all knowing. Even if he did not know right then and there that it was going to happen, free will and all, he could have ended right there and tried again. He did not have to kill Adam and Eve but he could have made sure that they never had children that would forever be cursed. No, but he still loves us. 

Getting back to Jesus. God was man will all the feeling and pains that comes with that. Because of that would he not better understand the pains and cruelty of the world. He could have right there and then put a stop to it. At lest God could have made a better effort to write something down by his own hand while he was here on earth. So that no human error could later be made. But that did not happen. There is no book of Jesus written by Jesus. No God thought it better to wait awhile, just a few hundred years, to then have people write about what he did.   

But I must not get it. It is all apart of the plan. A plan that convoluted and above my simple mind. But that is the arrogance of God. He already knows everything and everyone. He already knew that I was going to write this. But what I cannot get over is that God has never nor will ever risk anything for his creation or for any other reason.

He the master of everything there is nothing more powerful then him. He creates reality and guides it as he see fit. Without any risk to himself. Really it does not matter what happens to his creation. Yes he still may love us. But it is a one sided abusive relationship. God holds all the cards and is beyond the touch of anything.

The faithful many say I am misrepresenting Christianity or that I do not understand it. But I beg to differ. This is only the tip of the iceberg. But think about it. Think about the being that Christians believe in. The idea that God died 2000 odd years ago just so that when believers die they will live forever. Think what says of a loving God that while on this Earth left behind no record so that the faithful will clearly known what he expects out of them. Moreover think about the idea that this is the system God made and has the power to change at anytime but does not out of love.

This is what I mean by Christians do not understand what they believe in.