For those who want to know...RULES at my church!

[StillStanding]

Originally Posted by Michlow

STS, I didn't mean to scare you! You know me, too transparent for my own good. The truth is, everything I ever learned about God was distorted and twisted. God to me is someone who can't be trusted. Someone you can never please. Someone who is arbitrary and capricious. Malicious, cruel, and unjust.

Would you want to serve a God like that? Yeah, me neither.

A part of me knows and accepts that they were wrong, that the god they serve is not the real Jesus. But because all my former beliefs and concepts were built on a highly faulty foundation, most of it has crumbled into dust. And I find it extremely difficult to trust anything.

Furthermore, I don't trust any of the tools that one would normally obtain answers from (not to mention that I don't necessarily believe that there ARE answers to obtain).

My signature actually sums it up fairly well. I do believe in a divine creator, a higher power, a God. And I do believe that he is Jesus. But that is as far as I am willing to go.

Churches, demoninations, doctrines, rules, heaven/hell, even the concept of the Bible being inerrant, are all things that have no meaning to me.

And the truth is, I am happier than I have been in as long as I remember. Peaceful, you know?



I can't say that I know Jesus better than I did before, but I can't say that I know him less either. In fact if anything I question what I ever really knew in the first place. Even further, I question if God even intended for us to ever have the answers.

Michlow, what you are experiencing is totally normal!

When you are released from extremism, folks tend to pull away like a pendulum and it usually doesn't stop in the middle.

My prayer for you is that you find peace with God in one way or another!