Let God be God

We Christians are an arrogant single-minded lot.   We say god created everything.  Then in the same breath say only true believe Christians will be saved.   I am sorry if God created everything and he is the ultimate arbiter, then I am pretty sure that he can choose anyone he wants to enjoy his grace and his salvation and there is not one single thing humans can do about it.   On top of that if he created everything and everyone but as Christians tend to believe and push as the holy truth that only they will be saved, they are excluding Socrates, Aristotle, Buddha, and many other more worthy people than most Christians.  I think God will choose who he wants when he wants, and for whatever reason he wants. None of us can assume we know or that only those that believe as we do will matter. Let God be God and give Him praise for letting us even exist.

We Christians are also very fickle and a disagreeable group.  We have survived 2000 years despite ourselves.   We have turned Jesus into a Christian, but there was not a Christian religion did not exist in his time.  He was a Jew trying to reform his church.  We have forgotten many of his teachings while we are busy trying to force our version f his teaching on others.  We in the Christian world have become so fractured that we have no right to consider ourselves Christians.  We have spent so much time fighting over who understands the bible, Jesus’ teaching better, whose version is more accurate, what he really meant, that we have forgotten the simple thing of practicing his teachings.  We have killed our fellow man over believing the wrong way.  This proves we were not ready then, when mankind killed God’s son, nor ready now to live by his teachings.  Only God knows what God knows when it comes to what is acceptable and it is used to live by the simple messages of his son.  Let God be God and give Him praise for giving us his son’s teaching.

I think Christians have failed and just are afraid that they have failed.  We have forgotten what being a Christian means.  We have put ourselves above God in how we practice Christianity.   In the end we need to let God be God, and not read or assume we know beyond the teachings of his son.