Difference between Christian Religion and Christianity
Christian religion is one of my favorite and least favorite topics all rolled into one. I have another blog which I use sometimes, and lately it has turned into one rant after another about Christian religion. This is one reason I wanted another blog strictly for these topics.
Now Christian religion is not the same as Christianity and I suppose I need to explain the differences. Another name for Christian religion to me is legalism, which might clear the air up for some people.
Religion or legalism and Christianity both strive for a sin free life. Both understand sin is bad, and we should not sin. Both also understand that doing good things is good and we should be doing good things. However, both of these have completely different motivations for how to make people sin less, or not at all, and doing things which are good.
Christianity has since it's origin always had a problem of getting caught up in religion. Even Paul in many of his letters addressed this point, by referring to the law or other such things.
Christian Religion has not changed very much from the Old Testament, both are still trying to live with a list of rules, which in Colossians it even states God nailed these rules we failed to follow to the cross. The saddest part about all of this is non-Christians view us as the group of people who are just following a list of rules. And because of this sad point many people are staying away from true Christianity is droves.
We do not need Jesus or any God to just try harder to follow a list of rules. If your only motivation for being a Christian is because of morals then perhaps you need to rethink some things. I hate to break it to everyone but morals are not what is separating the "sheep and the goats".
To me real Christianity is about (this might sound crazy) but Christ. It's not about me, or anything I can do on my own. In fact I believe the greatest day in anybody's life is when they realize none of us are capable of doing anything good on our own. Without Christ we all screw up.
The big difference to me between religion and real Christianity is this. Religion tells me everything I can and should be doing for God. Christianity tells me what God did for me.
I suppose if I keep using this blog a lot of what I right will be rants about religion, and I just wanted to at least have some explanation for what I believe religion is.
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