Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship. What in the world is that supposed to mean? I was married for 40 years. That was a relationship. We share life together. We shared love and trials together. We shared good times and hard times together. We grew closer over the years. I was sad when she died.
We enter the Christian faith with what I call a personal experience. I felt God touch me and He filled me with the Holy Ghost. I have been in the faith for over 50 years now. I do not see this walk of faith as a romantic relationship.
This is what happens when women dictate our doctrine. They come up with crazy ideas. They have romantic fantasies about God and Christ. We sing it in our worship songs. We think that while Christ was on the cross that He was thinking about me personally. He wasn't.
Faith is an action word, not an emotion word. It defines how we live and gives us rules to live by to please God. You cannot have a real relationship with someone who is spirit and not human. Jesus had relationship with the disciples. He spent time with them.
Christ died to satisfy God's demands for redemption. Our job is to believe that is true and to live according to the life of God in us.
Salvation must be entered individually, but it must be lived out by faith in an unseen God.
Christianity is a religion. It has rules and guidelines. It has standards. We walk by faith, not by sight. Or by feelings.
