About Christianity

'shiki, i have never felt myself smiling. i never smile because i want to smile, and i don't know the reason and the value of a smile. i really don't know what a smile is, because i have never felt happy.'

the above more or less sums up the emotional state of a person called kurogiri satuki.

i have an online friend who is a non-christian. and when i asked her why she did not want to be a christian, she told me the christians she met were all backstabbers and hypocrites. and none of the christians she knew acted like how a christian should act. and if christians did not act according to their own rules, why should she become a christian?

isn't it sad? that the christians she met are all like that. not only her, many of the people are like that too. as christians, we sometimes act worse than a person without a God. it is as if christians is just a group of people trying their luck to get into heaven.

like satuki, he could not smile because he never experienced happiness. if one never felt happy before, it would be then logical that one would never smile.

just like my friend, who never experienced a kind act from a christian before. what she did not experience, she could not know. and what she could not understand, she could not believe. this is not a story. this is a fact of life.

we see some kids who grow up in an abusive home turned out violent themselves. not that they can help it. but if they were never shown compassion, how then could they give out mercy to others?

as christians, most of the time we tried to spread the Gospel by going into all the theories and the preaching. but we failed to consider that, maybe before we do that, we should set an example. what they did not experience, they could not know, and therefore could not understand.

if you preach and teach all the theories, they would still not understand. they would not understand why a God who tell us to love would have followers who backstab each other. they would not know why believers of a faith based on love would behave worse than godless people.

if we were to set an example in our lives, people would be able to see. they would see and want to know why we are like that. christians are always taken as a reference point. maybe you would have heard things like, 'what? you are a christian and yet you scold vulgarities?' 'you are a christian yet you are so immoral?' nobody say things like 'you are a believer of xxx and yet you utter profanity?' or 'did religion xxx teach you to do these kind of bad things?'

no. nobody makes a reference to other religions when people do bad things. they ALWAYS link it to christianity. it did not matter if a person from religion xxx do all kinds of stuffs. but it ALWAYS shows up when a christian do all the kind of wrong things.

then, we are observed by other people. to preach to them about love, we have to show them what is love. to teach them about grace, we have to show them what is the meaning of grace. to let them understand salvation, we should not be too busy to shed each other's blood.

isn't it very sad, that through the things we do, we are deterring others from wanting to know more about our faith. the things we do, not only directly harm the people, it also indirectly lowered the chances of others from being saved.

usually becoming a christian is a step by step basis. if we cannot even show them the most basic and foundations of being a christian, then, how can they even be a christian?

because he never experienced happiness, satuki could not smile. and because non-believers never saw love from christians, then how could they believe in the God of love?

science is the new religion. science overtakes the supernatural. there is nothing science cannot explain. science rules.

how many of you think that? i think you might have heard enough about the so many miracles on earth for life to exist so that you have to believe in God, such as if the elements of the earth are slightly different from what we have we would all die. or maybe if we are a little nearer or further from the sun we would all be extinct. or maybe if the composition of the air is not what we have now, we would never have existed in the first place. you can read all these somewhere else.

in my own opinion, i am going to write out what i think is the function of science on earth.

science, of course, is a set of logical reasoning to explain all the things that happened on earth so we could get a better understanding of our surroundings. science, is a set of logic, derived from human intelligence and approved by all. through science, we explained what could not be explained in the past.

many people now do not believe God put a rainbow after rains. rather, people believe it is the what? (humidity or something like that) that causes the rainbow to form. forgive me my physics is terrible. what used to be miracles could be explained by science. natural disasters are no longer divine punishments, they are just reactions of the earth or the shifting of tetonic plates. no i am not going to convince you that disasters are punishments. that is not the point of this post.

to me, God created us on earth. and as this is our home, we need to understand how it works. God is high above, and His wisdom is higher than ours. of course, if left alone, we could never comprehend what the earth is and how it works. so He gave us intelligence to understand it. the set of logic which later formed science is for us to understand our home, and more importantly, to show us there is a God.

science has improved so many years. we researched a lot, and learnt a lot. yet the more we learn, the more things we found out we don't know. we discovered the earth is round, then we found out the earth revolves round the sun, then we found out the solar system is part of the milky way etc. the more we find out, the more we are mystified. the wonders of the nature.

can't you see? there is a God. in just 6 days, He created what we humans, with our science, took more than 5000 years to explore and not yet gain a complete understanding of all His works. shouldn't you feel that the more you dwell into science, the more you are amazed at His works?

to me, science is a tool for us to marvel at His creation, so that we know how great is our God. science, by no means, can replace God. it is not a god. it is not a religion. it is just a set of logic that God gives us so we can use it to explore our home, and to be amazed at His works. give the human race another 10,000 years, and even if we could colonize Pluto, i assure you, we would still not be able to fully explore and understand all that He created and set in place in just 6 days.

now, shouldn't science humble you, instead of making you proud that finally our brain can replace God? idols are what humans made with their hands to worship. science is what humans made up with in their brain with the intelligence given to us - a concept that some people worship. that is, if you believe science can replace God.

there is so much more that i am amazed. billions of people, over thousands of years, could only comprehend only a bit of what was created. remember: science is not a god that can replace God. science is a concept to show us there is a God, and to show us that we, are not God.