In today’s world, declaring who you are has become a real thing, even to the extreme of contradicting who science says you are. Many would like us to believe fully whatever they say as a fact or truth. Since the very beginning, people have tried to convince others that they represented something or someone, when the facts would prove otherwise.
Shortly after Jesus rose from the dead, many people wanted to be Christian, not just in word, not just to be popular; they wanted to identify as Christian and were willing to die for that title. Saying you were Christian, wasn’t enough, it required actions; one had to be baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity, vow that Jesus is the living Christ, son of God, and that you are willing to follow His teachings.
Do we, as Christians, still take these actions and are we serious about why we believe what we believe?
Let’s examine the truth. Pew Research, did a poll of Americans in 2021, right after the pandemic. On one of the main tenants of the Christian faith, eight percent of Christians did not believe in heaven and twenty one percent did not believe in hell. (Can one exist without the other?) Of the seventy nine percent that believed in hell, twenty eight percent did not believe in Satan. (God runs heaven, Satan runs hell…Right?)
These numbers are a stark reality that some Christians believe what they want to believe, not what Christ taught. Consider that over ninety percent of Christians believe that the Gospels are the word of God. If this is true, then when Jesus said, that we should only fear the one who can destroy our soul and body in “hell”, who do they think he was talking about?
“Jesus said to the Twelve: “Fear no one. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Matthew, 10:26-28
First, to call yourself a Christian, we must believe that Jesus is God. As God, we must acknowledge that what He said came from a place of knowledge; He knows the truth. By giving us the truth, he demands us to fear no one, and to shout the truth to everyone on our journey to heaven. Most importantly, to be Christian we should understand that to contradict God is never a wise decision.
If this is my last post, I want all to know there was only one purpose for all that I have written; to have made a positive difference in the lives of others.
Anthony “Tony” Boquet, the author of “The Bloodline of Wisdom, The Awakening of a Modern Solutionary”
