Funny Little Christians

Why oh why do Christians act like hate mongers? It makes no sense to me in any fashion. They will tell you that they are not filled with hate, but as Jesus described hate as calling your brother a fool, then I say yes they do.
Question: How do we know that we are so right?
Faith. So how, with only faith to go on, basically a gut feeling, can we tell the entire rest of the world that they are wrong and condemned to hell??? WILL SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER THAT?
This is faith, people. Yes, I believe that Jesus is the Messiah. I believe it with every fiber of my being. But I wasn't there when the Spirit filled Jesus and raised Him from the dead. I wasn't there when Jesus healed the sick and the blind and neither were you.
I have a book in my hand written by men (inspired by God) that tells me these things. Here is the good part. Most of that book was written BEFORE Jesus was born or AFTER Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father. Meaning that we had to take it on faith from there on out and MEN had to determine the true meaning of what Jesus might have meant. I think that they got it right for the most part. God is Love. Love your neighbor and God and these are all the rule there are to follow. There is now no condemnation to those in Christ. But then we have the I don't let a woman teach me or speak in the church that Paul spoke of. He said that this was him speaking and Not the Lord. It's not a commandment. It's not a law. Paul wanted women to not ask questions of their husbands during the service and it was distracting when they did so is all he meant. At that time women were not educated in the way they are today. They might not have understood the things we do today. My thought I suppose is this. There is tons of good stuff in our Bible and some that is interpreted wrong by people today. With all of this incorrect interpretation someone is bound to be condemned by someone else. God says this and God says that about how you live your life. You can't be a Christian because you're gay. You are going to hell because you're Muslim. The beloved children of God condemned to an eternal existence of torture and pain. I'm not sure what a loving God really has in mind for us, but I am finding it hard to believe that Christ died so people could still go to hell. I'm not sure what either what God has in mind and I don't pretend to know. I do know that God is just and justice not condemnation will be served.
The point is this. You don't know anything for absolute certainty and how can one be condemned by you or me based on a gut feeling? Where is your physical evidence? This isn't even circumstantial. This is hearsay. Jesus told someone who told someone who told us.
My friends who follow Buddha and Islam believe as strongly as we do that they are right and we are misled. Infidels I think they call us just as we call them heathens. Their faith says we are wrong just as strongly as we say they are.
I would love to tell you of my faith and let you tell me of yours and let's leave the judgments to God shall we?

Crazy Coincidence

In my last post I talked so eloquently about teachers and learning the lesson etc. I should really learn to keep mu mouth shut. A few days after this I was laid off from my job for the fourth time in three years. THAT will test your faith! We need for me to work. )As a side note: One more thing I want for my daughter is for her to get a degree....in anything! you don't have to use it you just have to have it.) I have spent the past two weeks looking for a job and it's not been easy. There are not a ton of jobs out there to be had right now and all the scams online test my patience. BUT I have honest to goodness faith that there is something out there that is better for me than the last thing. There always is. The past three years have been a real test. I quit my own business to go into Real Estate. WOW that was bad timing. But I learned so much about how to do so many things that I can take those skill now and get a job that I never would have qualified for in the past. I guess all this means is that I am hoping beyond hope for the best and that hope comes by faith..
I can't stand these doggone lessons!