Godzilla, Thanks for the response.
Entertain the following possibility. I don’t say it’s a certainty, but consider it.
Christianity, as an institution, and all relics/objects/books/traditions associated with it, have been heavily influenced by a world that does NOT accept its basic message, and turned into something like ancestor worship.
Having said that, I myself try to commune with Christ and God. I don’t know how to measure success, but try to be faithful and optimistic about it.
And if a person were really hurting, with serious life problems, then I can think of nothing better than to ask God and/or Christ to intervene, and to express faith and hope to him/them personally. That’s what any Christian of any stripe would do, I think.
We will see if it is worthy of such consideration
Christianity, as an institution, and all relics/objects/books/traditions associated with it, have been heavily influenced by a world that does NOT accept its basic message, and turned into something like ancestor worship.
That is an interestingly perverse way of examining an "institution". I do not consider your premise accurate except for fringe applications - and even those more focused on western forms.
Having said that, I myself try to commune with Christ and God. I don’t know how to measure success, but try to be faithful and optimistic about it.
Your second premise does not naturally follow the first. Additionally - 'communing' is a very vague term as well as your dual Christ AND God note. The Bible is far more explicit about it than the bland oatmeal this describes Tax. If that is all that "Christianity" means to you, then you really haven't studied the New Testiment.
And if a person were really hurting, with serious life problems, then I can think of nothing better than to ask God and/or Christ to intervene, and to express faith and hope to him/them personally. That’s what any Christian of any stripe would do, I think.
Tax, it is clear now that you are representing something OTHER than Christianity with the phrase him/them indicating that the two are entirely separate. A Christian of "any other stripe" would first know that to appeal to Christ is the same as an appeal to God - and vice versa. Second - what EXACTLY is the OUTCOME of that 'hope' Tax. A true Christian would understand that OUTCOME, but I am not sure you do.