Well Informed: religion 3.0 Be spiritual not religious?

Religion can be defined as a belief, worship or praise to a higher power or personal God. In recent months religion has been in the center of everything that has been going down in the word; the most prominent at the moment are Christians and Muslims. You have the issue with Kim Davis and homosexuals, and then you have the pope coming to America as if he is a rock star, and then you have attacks by radical Islamic groups carrying out destructive attacks. In the midst of all of this I have noticed it has caused people to hate religion all together because now absent minded people generalize all people of faith and or particular religions as pushy and basically terrorists. There are so many different religions out there now a days, you have Mormons, Christians, Muslims, Baptists, Jehovah witnesses etc. . . so you can see why so many people are confused and turning away from religion because so many religions are trying to tell everybody they are wrong instead of trying to bring people to truth.

The one thing I have noticed about religions in this modern day is that they are trying so hard to promote their religions and market why their religion is the only truth, but they forget what is really important, and that is Jesus Christ. That's just it, hes the answer, the explanation, and the all of it. If you aren't preaching Jesus but claim to follow God then you are not abiding in truth! To know the father is to know the son and to know the son is to know the father (Matt 11:27). The media has a huge grip on the minds of people when it comes to religions, especially Christianity. The media often portrays Christians, as all hypocrites, hateful, judgmental, gay haters, and do as I say not as I do people. There are people like that, but those people are not Christian. A Christian is someone who knows that they are weak and leans on the Lord, and a Christian strives everyday to live like Jesus, showing love and compassion.

The worst about this is that we (Christians) are made out to be "Homophobes" and people who hate homosexuals. That is not true at all. As I stated before if you do hate those people you are not a Christian. I Know for a fact that I don't hate them I actually love them, but I just don't agree with the way that they choose to live. I understand that the hypocrites give Christians a bad rep but it is not fair to generalize all in that same category.

Spiritual not Religious: I think religions is good because it keeps your morals and values in check. It is a good way keep you in line, but also a good way to keep you honorable towards God, but it can be a negative as well. I don't like religion or religious people at the same time because religious people were the same people that killed Jesus. What do you mean religious people Darius? I am talking about the people that want to be seen openly praying, being seen in high places, practicing a ritual, and living holy only on Sundays like most pastors, bishops and church leaders today. If Jesus was walking the earth today (he is alive and well) the people would crucify him again because he didn't obey the religious rules that man had set but he obeyed the words of the father!

This brings me to my next point in that people have twisted religion from what it was originally founded on and have turned it into a fleshly thing instead of its original form which is spiritual. "Those that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth," (John 4:24). To me that is why so many people have it wrong because they are leaning to their own understanding instead of leaning on the Lord for wisdom and knowledge (Proverbs 3:5-6) because if you are not in tune spiritually it is impossible to please God and move in the right direction. An example of this is racism in churches. In the LDS church black people weren't allowed to hold a man given priesthood until the 70's which to me sounds like God was racist up until the 1970's which is false because God doesn't work that way. This is an example of being in the flesh and not in the spirit because anybody that has any type of holy ghost knows that the spirit would never condone that.

Conclusion: When you look at religion through the eyes of flesh you see religion as having no power, being bound by rules, and many other factors but if you do in truth and in spirit there is absolute freedom because where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty ( 2 Corinthians 3:17). God is so loving that hey gave us the gift of free will to either serve him or go our own way! I am a Christian but not based on the title of my religion but by the way I live my life; Christianity is a way of living and a fun lifestyle to live at that. Being in a religion doesn't mean you have to walk around serious and dead all the time, but instead it should bring joy and happiness. don't let the media fool you in the way it presents religion because it can fool you into resenting God. Anybody can tell you one way is the truth but only God can show you the true way.