Facts:
- Not all believers of the bible are Christians.
- All Christians are believers of the bible.
- Many think they are a Christian or were one once upon a time.
- Believing is an act of the will, but it is either BECAUSE of an act of God’s will OR an act of man’s will.
- If it is because of the will of a man (or boy, or girl, or woman), then his belief is no different from what the devils experience [James 2:19].
- If it is because of the will of God, then his belief is from the same faith as what Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were given.
- It is correct to say, “I once was a believer of the bible because I was indoctrinated into the religion as a child as a result of the culture and region of the world in which I was born.”
- It is incorrect to say, “I once was a Christian because I was indoctrinated into the religion as a child as a result of the culture and region of the world in which I was born.”
The most misunderstood label seems to be the term Christian. Hopefully, what’s added below is enough to finish the explanation:
Christians are a new creation. At the moment of salvation, a new nature is conceived. The old nature remains, while the new nature develops spiritually. It cannot be stopped any more than a human being can go back to the time before the sperm fertilized the egg that he evolved in.
Galatians 6:15,
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.”
To be physically circumcised or uncircumcised is a choice and action in man’s control, but only God can make a new creation [new creature].¹ Being a believer does not guarantee the existence of a new nature. Without being a new creature, one can walk away from one religion and go to another.
John 1:13,
“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Atheism is just as much a religion as anything else can be. Religion is a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; a personal God or gods. Atheists worship self as god and confidence is focused on self for controlling their destiny. Atheists want to believe emotions, such as happiness and depression, are something they have power over.
When you think you’re a helpless victim of your own self, society labels that as a disease which only pills and/or therapy can cure. It’s too humiliating for human nature to trust in God for all things, especially for life.
Personally, I’d rather be humbled now instead of later. Later, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to God. Every one shall give account of himself to God [Romans 14:11-12].
Only Jesus was good enough. We can have the whole world and still have nothing or we can have nothing this world offers and have everything when we have Christ as our Lord and savior.
Romans 9:11-16,
“(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”
Are you possessed by the things and/or people of this world or are you possessed by God?
¹Humans can beget future generations, but only God can create life.
