How To Believe In God But Not Religion?

 

The Holy God Most High Calls Everyone To Apologise

God is wholly pure without ever having even the smallest shade of bad in His nature.
Holy God is the originator of love, purity, honesty, patience, holiness and infinitely more. And that is how He created our world.

Do You Actually Know About God Most High?

It's not an idea that God simply chose to enact, to make things difficult for you and I, it really is who He is. God Most High, can never become something else, or act another way. Each and every one of His commandments are there to preserve His disposition and to safeguard us.
These governing laws were designed INTO the whole universe, and moulded into humankind.
Sovereign God would not do anything that is contrary to His Integrity. One can consider it the 'durable laws and regulations of the whole universe.'
Hence, the Sovereign God of the Bible is the Great Maker God of the whole universe, as well as the creator of the tiniest piece of a proton, which is unseen by us. The Word of God tells us this of Holy God:

?I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8) For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a zealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
LORD JEHOVAH is high over all the nations and his honor is above Heaven. (Psalm 113:4)
Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion, LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
And all the angels were standing around the throne...and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast the understanding... (Job 38:4)
Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days are many!..... (Job 38:21)
"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
And Jehovah answers Job and says: ?Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who disputes with God answer it.? Then Job replied to the LORD. He said: "I am unworthy--how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. ?Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; Even twice, and I will add no more.?..... Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified? ?Or do you have an arm like God, And can you thunder with a voice like His? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job answered the LORD, and said: I know that thou can do all things, and no thought is hid from thee. ?Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Hear, I ask you, and I will speak: I will question you, and you declare unto me. I had heard rumors about You, but now my eyes have seen You. Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes! (Job 42:1-6)
"The poor in spirit are blessed, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. (Matthew 5:3)


Generally, people nowadays, have only heard about God, they are yet to genuinely encountered Him.
For what reason then, do we self-importantly insist on explanations from God, to all the things we don't agree with? Yes indeed, the significant questions we have of universal justice and the not guilty who suffer are appropriate, nonetheless not to the extent where we can command the Supreme God Most High to give humans an account of His supposedly inadequate handling of our existence.

A Maker Is The Owner Of Their Unique Fabrication, That's Legislation

God not only owns the universe, but He also owns us also, and what He wants is that which is His. His requirement is to love and serve Him in return. It usually is hard to swallow, but this planet is His program, and He is able to formulate it how He likes. If you or I made it, we would make the terms and conditions. However, the Most High God proclaims:

'Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Never forget these commands that I am giving you today.' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

We Were Not Built As Androids Or Even As Pet Dogs But Rather As Children

The Creator God could have taken the threat from your life, to grant us a nice life, but only by building us all as subservient robotic machines. But that is without a doubt not what He desired.
He wanted beings that enjoyed free will and are able to voluntarily choose to be devoted to Him.
A being something resembling what He is.

Freedom Is Alas, A Dangerous Ingredient

Yet, the liability with granting your created creature their own capability to choose how they lived, is that they may possibly reject you, and that is precisely what we do.
This is a problem, think about all of the things we do and also think about think about and also do that are wrong, this is often referred to as wickedness in the Bible, they completely attack Holy God's character and godliness, and again, you might say an offense against the Fixed Laws of the entire universe - the ordered universe He built. These wrong things have separated us from God Most High.

'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can understand stumblings? Cleanse thou me from secret faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Think of it like this repugnant comparison. A new clean and sterile wipe taken out of a brand new sealed packet to deal with your badly bleeding laceration, now, when compared with a used, dirty wipe that has been sat and walked upon for a month off the patients area floor or seats. So how would you feel? Blech, nauseating. Well then, that is a mere hint of how God Most High feels about the things we do wrong, even the so-called insignificant stuff we did wrong and sometimes think about, that offend God's righteousness, and violates the abiding governing laws of the whole universe.
And that includes the wrong things we consider insignificant, like: failing to serve God, cusswords, thinking hateful things someone, fibbing and showing no gratitude to The Creator God, and a range of other things.

Impurities And Bad Stuff Not In Accord With A Sinless Holy God Have To Be Paid For

Our sins are debts to God:
'And forgive us our debts, just as we also forgive our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

These wrong things breach the sheer purity, honor and rule of the Most High God. Every time we act in those ways, it is striking Holy God in the face. In the Scriptures, contained in His Law, God proclaims you are not to speak God's Sacred name in vain meaning, dismissively. At any time, have you ever desecrated His Name? God proclaims that it is bad to steal, have you at any time stolen anything in your life? God proclaims don't crave others belongings. Have you on any occasion been craving to have another person's life, home, partner or stuff? God declares that we honour our parents. Did you ever talkback to your parents?

Sovereign God knows all things. And, every single bad thing has to be paid in full. A point in time is coming when every single bad thing MUST be convicted and judged, or it could be said, finalise accounts to syncretize with the abiding governing laws of the entire universe. Or as the Holy Bible calls it; to allay the rage of Holy God. This will dismay most, since they are generally told that The Creator God really loves everybody endlessly, that they believe that God would not be outraged with anybody due to any bad things they do.

Frequently I find people, blind to these basics, contending ?But, I have been told that God ceaselessly loves each individual? What is this extra necessity on holiness??

And I reply, "Agreed, God Most High does love humanity, except humans are unable to take the love side of Almighty God and snub the perfection side. It really is not possible. It is clearly declared in Scripture, but you are almost never told of this. Sadly, these days preachers mostly just talk about the pleasant things, rather than the whole unlikable truth.
People are unable to know the Everlasting God by with our human perspectives, feelings and conduct. God Most High actually is ?out of this world? and He informs us just who, He really is and about how He rules in Scripture. Demanding that He follow our system, just gives us a useless hope in something that is not real and shall fall apart sometime.
Some people wrongly blame Almighty God for the miseries in the world, wrong, it is far from God?s fault. He created all things superbly, Adam and Eve ruined everything and we continue to screw up. They attack Holy God's character and godliness; the 'durable laws and regulations of the whole universe.' Holy God could not simply come along and make it all good for the human race. The directives or course of things that He started, has to come to it's natural conclusion.
All debts of sinfulness must be paid.

Having said that, God provided a strategy for all our evil to be convicted and judged, to satisfy the spiritually legal requirements of God's enduring Law, the eternal law of the whole universe. And that magnificent strategy, was the crucifying, dying, burial and the raising back to life of His Son, The Lord Jesus. And, this magnificent plan was achieved in public before the audience of all creation in the universe ? humans, angels and the Devil.
Jesus was the flawless sacrificial Lamb that can pay for our bad stuff; conduct, thoughts and attitudes. Nothing else could pay for our evildoing.
The Bible says:

'Since all have sinned (done wrongs things) and continually fall short of the glory of God,' (Romans 3:23)
So, merely living 'a really good' life and doing much good is unable to spare anyone from the dire penalty of the bad conduct, thoughts and attitudes, just the Lord Jesus can. If the only thing one does in their life is to be a good man or woman and even goes to church, that won't spare anyone and will not enable anyone to go to heaven. Meaning, going to endless torment, which is hell:

'For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

It is true, it is not being good that saves us, you must apologize for the many sins you do, and live fully for the Most High God. I shall clarify this further later.

Due to this I find that attending a funeral of a non-Christian disturbs me greatly. This is also the reason my highest concern during life is revealing to others about what Sovereign God is really like. To reveal to others who never attend church, as well as, to folks who usually do attend church but still haven't effectively grasped the whole truth. The misunderstanding of Almighty God is not uncommon, and is either because the preaching they listened to was ambiguous or it was compromised by the false beliefs of modern political correctness, from pastors repeatedly seeking to make the Unceasing, Changeless Great God to seem as if He is only a lovable, snuggly great grandfather kind of god, lacking His perfect holiness and the punishing of sinnful things. That is definitely a man-made god of their own fantasies.
Over and over I find agnostics argue ?Tell me how could God be like this, I thought He is a God of great love?? Yes, but you are unable to eliminate His chilling justice, because His Holy Scriptures pronounces much more on the subject of His purity and chilling justice, than His great love.
It is impossible to understand the Timeless God by using our standards of expectation and our life. God Most High really is ?out of this world? and He declares to us who He really is and the manner in which He operates in the Holy Bible. Expecting Him to adopt your own principles, only provides us with a hazardously incorrect belief of Sovereign God.
Now remember, you have no possible means to fake it if you don't really mean it. Almighty God knows everything you think.

Holy God Offered The Settlement For All Wrongdoing, So Long As...

The sole way to have a person's wrong things acquitted and be saved from hell, is to realize how wrong we really are before a Sinless God, and to say that we are so sorry for everything trespasses. And afterward to absolutely hand over one's being to Him, and follow His ruling as our administrator for the rest of our life. That, is the right model of our existence in the world He formed for Himself:

'He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.' (Luke 9:23)

Jesus Christ in no way said ?Simply be a good or fine person, produce various good stuff for lots of other people, and you will never be sent to the lake of fire .?
Actually, this is what Jesus declared concerning how to be pardoned of your sinfulness:

'Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else.
Two men went up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-farmer. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ?God, be merciful to me a sinner!?
I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.?' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Pharisee in this story does not do the presumed ?bad' sins like arson, as we say, yet he was not forgiven by Holy God.
While the taxman did do ?bad' evils yet was pardoned by Holy God, because he really regretted his conduct.
It is a humiliating undertaking to confess we are and have been, sinful and to give up our existence completely to Almighty God. But lacking it we are unable to be redeemed from our trespasses, we have got to come to God meek and weak. Jesus said :

'And Yeshua called a boy and stood him in their midst. And he said, ?Truly I say to you, unless you will be converted and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.?' (Matthew 18:2-3)

All Of Your Obligation Will Never Be Paid By Being A Good Person

'For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Repent And Allow God To Pay Off The Shortfall Or Not??

'He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.' (Luke 9:23)

And ?Carry your cross daily? signifies, we must serve in a self-denying way each single day for our new faith.
The Bible also says:

'Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship. (Romans 12:1)

'but sanctify the LORD God in your hearts. And always be ready for defense to everyone who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.' (1Peter 3:15)

To summarize: Jesus Christ becomes your owner. For life. And as the Bible instructs, we live for Sovereign God, studies in the Scriptures, communicating with God on a daily basis, informing others who God is, and helping some others as we are lead to. Sovereign God, becomes our campaign and quest for the whole of our lives.

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