So you say you are a Christian; so what? What does that mean?

So you say you are a Christian; so what? What does that mean?

The Wikipedia says a Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrhaamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christos (Χριστός), (anointed one) a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term Mashiach (Messiah).

Conservative evangelical, fundamentalists, and born again (so called) Christians are outraged over recent and other ongoing events inconsistent with their perception n of biblical instruction. Abortion, same sex marriage, and allies with non – Christian nations are high profile issues that separate Christians from each other and the rest of the world God so loved that he gave his only Son to salvage (John 3 vs 16).

Conservative and Liberal Christians neither allow for, nor do they accept; the expression or point of view of the other. The behavior demonstrates the same type of behavior among children who cry when they do not get their way. These face off against each other like rams that will ram heads against each other in the quest to be dominant. Only one is dominant in the equation, God. 

What is the motivation for this constant antagonism established on the word ‘but’. When either speaks to what they believe the Bible says, the other is quick to sling a ‘but’.

For all Christians who assert the Bible prohibits the procedure of abortion or ending the life of unborn child, these facts challenge the belief lived out. Thirty – seven percent of women obtaining abortions identify as Protestant and 28% identify as Catholic. That totals 65% of women getting abortion are Christian.

Katherine Weber, Christian Post Reporter reports a new survey conducted by LifeWay Research finds that 44 percent of Americans believe homosexuality is a sin. Meanwhile, 43 percent believe it is not, and 13 percent are not sure.

More regular Christian churchgoing men than women believe homosexuality is a sin.  Christians with college degrees are less likely to believe homosexuality is a sin. Eighty – two percent of conservative evangelical, fundamentalist, and born again (so called) Christians believe homosexuality a sin.

When a Christian nation embraces nations who do not acknowledge God or his Christ and makes deals with them, what does this mean? Christians are not up outraged over trade deals with China or oil deals with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Why are conservative evangelical, fundamentalist, and born again (so called) Christians so quiet about these wrongs? 

What does the Written Word of God have to say about matters of inclusion beyond the status quo? While the people of Earth and the Earth herself experience savage rape for the sake of politics, power, business, and profit; Christians find it more noble to fight each other than take on the issues of human survival. 

This is behavior tantamount to that of white supremacists. These believe God, his Christ and the cross authorize and empower their actions of hatred and harm. These particularly hate Jews, Blacks and other people of color. Christians are not outraged over this behavior because it is easier to condemn their perception of the sins of others without drawing attention to the own.

Christians are up in emotional arms asserting supremacist perspectives without regard for the love of the neighbor as the Great Commandment of Matthew 22 vss 35 – 40 demands. This instruction is second only to the very first order of spiritual business according the Shema of Deuteronomy 6 vs 4 that declares the Lord our God is ONE! 

The Book of Galatians 3 vs 28 mentions one when it declares that there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Because God, the creator is the only authentic Omnisexual, by extension of the Galatians trend of thought, is it possible there is room to consider there is neither heterosexual nor the differently sexual and there is neither conservative nor liberal; all in Christ are one? 

Why do sexual matters stir evoke so much vocal wrath amongst conservative evangelical, fundamentalist, and born again (so called) Christians? Why does the same level of wrath not follow other behavioral concerns like incest in Christian families and sexual abuse among Protestant church leadership?

Is it that the need to feel superior only gives rise to notions of power, privilege and prestige among conservative evangelical, fundamentalist, and born again (so called) Christians? If this is what is really going on, are between 8 and 10 million homosexual Christians to be denigrated through excommunication and non - acknowledgement? 

People who worship their notion of the Constitution of the United States of America and the Founding Fathers make the same kinds of arguments for political point of view. Because they believe they know the mind of the founders’ intentions, others who do not share the same sense of intention must be denigrated and not acknowledged. The Founders are the same (so called) Christian men who believed it appropriate to own and sell slaves.

My family worships with the Silent Hope Church. . We are all members.

Silent Hope developed to serve the Christian deaf community in the Phoenix, Arizona East Valley. The church pastor is deaf. Many in the congregation are as well though the church has many hearing members from many cultures.

Some people become deaf because of sickness, disease, or accident. Most are born deaf.

Speaking on their own behalf, the deaf say they do not need fixed to be like hearing people. Their view honors how God gives rise to their creation. 

The Bible asks this question in Jeremiah 13 vs 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Can the leopard change his spots? Then may you also do good that are accustomed to do evil.

The Word of God honors life forms as God has created us. It is not only counterintuitive to want what God has created to become something it is not; it is also counterproductive.

Is it that the conservative evangelical, fundamentalist and born again (so called) Christians cannot accept what God has joined together should not be divided (Matthew 19 vs 6)? Or, is it something else. Can the homosexual male or female or any member of the LGBT Community change because others want them to change so they can feel OK with their status quo world?

The Book of Ecclesiastes 3 vs 1, declares that to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Essentially, the text establishes the acceptance of opposites as the way of human experience.

Demanding everybody be like you and think like you demonstrates immaturity. Thinking that God only honors individual perception of God is like saying the hand should be full of thumbs instead of fingers. 

God is the ultimate expression of all of life. God is the only omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent and omnisexual one. All of us experience our oneness in God’s son. 

We are sinners all of us without question alive in the era of God’s mercy, grace and favor. This is God’s gift to us. We love God because God first loved us (1^st John 4 vs 19).  We demonstrate our love by living out the Great Commandment of loving God, loving ourselves, and others as we love ourselves. 

To that end, the ultimate objective of all Christian behavior is to draw other and influence them to relationship with Jesus, the Christ. We then carry out the privilege of living after the model of Jesus. 

How people live out their sexuality and sex lives within the confines of legal and acceptable behavior is their business, between them and God alone. So you say you are a Christian; so what? What does that mean? 

The Wikipedia says a Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrhaamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christos (Χριστός), (anointed one) a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term Mashiach (Messiah). Let the chorus of ‘buts’ begin.