Fanatical Wingnut

What am I not? A fanatical wingnut. Commonly thought of as a person who can't think for herself. Someone who accepts what is told to her without any further thought on the matter. Someone who has been brainwashed.
What am I? A Christian. Someone who believes that Jesus loves me to an extent that I cannot ever fully comprehend while on this earth and my belief in Him and Him alone affords me eternal life. Someone who knows that while my life ending is guaranteed, it may or may not coincide with the end of the world. Regardless, I will be with my Lord so it's a win-win situation someday.

I do not deign to believe that God changes His mind regarding His Word.

Matthew 24:36 says "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." I cannot begin to fathom why otherwise intelligent people would choose to believe a mere man who predicted the end of the world yesterday at 6pm. There may be a myriad of reasons, psychological or otherwise, that allowed them to grasp at these particular straws. I'm neither a psychologist, analyst, specialist on religious fanaticism or anything else remotely qualified to say. Remember that as you read the rest of this post.

The worst part of the charade that this "church" performed was the attention paid to them. Attention that leads to the opinion that all Christians can be painted by the same brush, as you can read on just about any news outlet today. There are people who believe all Christians are stark raving mad fanatical wingnuts. We're all stark raving lunatics, just like all Muslims must be on a jihad, right? That sounds stupid, right? There are a lot of stereotypes and ideas that the secular world has about people who believe in Jesus Christ. Some of them are true. Are Christians hypocrites? Yep, just as everyone in this world is a hypocrite. We may attempt to follow the Bible to the letter, to live life the way the Lord instructs us, but we will fail. We're human, just like the next guy. The difference is that when I fail, I know that the Lord loves me anyway and will allow me to try again. I don't have to beat myself up, blame myself, the world, my parents, those around me. Hopefully I can learn every time I fail and apply it, move forward. Hopefully I can become more of a light to those around me. Hopefully I can become more humble.

Mostly, I hope that when I talk to people about what I believe that I do it with love and respect, not condescension, or force, or superiority. To do so would be the equivalent of me saying that I know all that God knows. That would be a lie. I do know that I cannot know all that He knows but that I can trust His Word to be true.

I don't believe it's my place to tell you that because you do XYZ that it's worse than me doing ABC. There is no sin that you commit that is worse than any sin I commit. Sin is sin is sin no matter how you attempt to pretty it up. I don't believe that anyone wants to be beat about the head with what I know is truth. Yes, I do believe it is truth, and there is absolute truth. Truth is not something that is personal when it comes to this. But not everyone wants to hear that truth. Sometimes the only thing I can do is love a person in the best way I know how.  Sometimes all I can do is tell them what that truth is and how I don't know everything there is to know and I don't understand everything there is to understand about that truth. This makes me human, not a mindless robot who has been brainwashed.

This blog isn't meant to be an outlet for my beliefs, per se. And in general it will be more about cooking and baking and my random life thoughts. But my faith is part of who I am and by extension will show up here once in a while. I hope it's one way I can be a light in this world.