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  • 02-09-2013 12:08am
    #1
    Geomy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭


    Ok I know about God's will and accepting it is what it is, is...

    Have any of you ever asked God to accept you as you are ?

    This might appeal to crooked spiritual people like myself, as I cannot walk the line of perfection. ..

    After all nature is full of ups and downs, hills and hollows,nature never forgives, it just gets on with it all. ..


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  • #2
    homer911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭homer911


    Geomy wrote: »
    Have any of you ever asked God to accept you as you are ?

    This is the core of the Christian message. Christ died for us while we were sinners - he didnt ask us to change first.

    Becomming a Christian is about asking God to accept us as we are, with all our imperfections, BUT ALSO recognising that we have to change and want to change, and opening ouselves up with a willingness to let him change us..

    If you are asking about becoming a Christian, and remaining exactly as you are now, then you are not grasping what it is to be a Christian


  • #3
    Geomy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    homer911 wrote: »
    This is the core of the Christian message. Christ died for us while we were sinners - he didnt ask us to change first.

    Becomming a Christian is about asking God to accept us as we are, with all our imperfections, BUT ALSO recognising that we have to change and want to change, and opening ouselves up with a willingness to let him change us..

    If you are asking about becoming a Christian, and remaining exactly as you are now, then you are not grasping what it is to be a Christian

    I see what you mean, you made a valid point, a lot of people who are on the fence like myself are put off by reading about all the negativity about Christianity. ...

    I was talking to someone about 12 step programme s and they are laid out in very Christian like way...


  • #4
    hinault
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    homer911 wrote: »
    This is the core of the Christian message. Christ died for us while we were sinners - he didnt ask us to change first.

    Becomming a Christian is about asking God to accept us as we are, with all our imperfections, BUT ALSO recognising that we have to change and want to change, and opening ouselves up with a willingness to let him change us..

    If you are asking about becoming a Christian, and remaining exactly as you are now, then you are not grasping what it is to be a Christian

    The Catholic church acknowledges directly that it a church of sinners.

    The Penitential Rite which is contained at the beginning off each and every single Mass states that we have all sinned by what we have done and what we have failed to do and we ask for God's mercy for those sins.

    God knows that we are weak and that we fail. We are weak and fail to a lesser or a greater degree.
    However by trying to create and maintain a relationship with God, those weaknesses and failings can be overcome through faith and prayer and good works.

    The essence of Christianity for me is to acknowledge my weakness and my sinfulness before God and to ask God for the grace to overcome those failings to help make me a better person.


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