The Fear of The Lord- part 1

 There are approximately 20 Major religions around the world today and a countless number of new ones that pop up every day. But why? Why are there so many new religions every single day? People are missing something, there is something that they are not getting and they want to have their cake and eat it too. People hate feeling like they are being judged every time they set foot outside their doors, that is why they try to come up with their own religions every single day. They want to find a way to be happy with who they are or what they have become without being judged by what they have done to get there.

I was the same way myself, I did not understand how to be perfect..how could you live this "Holy Life" in the type of world that we are living in today? I mean there is no way right? Its almost impossible for us to be the people that God or Allah or whoever wants us to be right? It doesn't matter what religion you pick your going to have to be a good person that gets rewarded by all the good things or deeds you have done. No matter if its Christianity or even Hinduism, you will one day be judged or are being judged every single day by some sort of Higher power or Being. What happens when you fall short or you don't complete your task? What happens when you cant do all the great things that your "Religion" wants you to do? According to some religions, you get punished in different forms. For some it is being thrown in to a lake of Fire and burning up for all eternity, for others its being demoted to a lower life form in the evolutionary chain. No matter what the punishment there is always going to be some sort of cause and affect for anything you do right?

What if I told you that we got it wrong? What if I said that since the death of Jesus Christ people have been going about religion in pretty much the wrong way. Most of it was designed to control the people and give Kings & Rulers more power over their own people.Christianity back in the old times was a tool that was used by rulers to help govern their people and persuade them in to doing or not doing things. Basically it was a form of "Unwritten Law" that they were using besides their own laws, as well as a way for them to justify the laws that they were putting in to place. If someone would question a law , a lot of the times they would just reference laws out of the bible or whatever it was they used for their religions and the same goes for Christianity even today.

Why do most Christians who know they are christian and have even accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, find it hard to get up and go to church on Sunday morning? It is not because they are lazy, that's not it at all because most people would get up at 5 am on a Sunday morning if they had to to watch the Superbowl or even The World Cup. It is the feeling they get when they walk through those doors, automatically they feel like they are being judged! Why is it that they feel this way? Well lets see.. when we tell people that Judgement day they will stand before God and answer for their sins after they die, or that God will bless them according to how much good works they have done and even according to how they live their daily lives. Where is all this coming from? Did God tell us that if we don't live the perfect life then we will not be rewarded in heaven? Did he say that we need to be holy and pure or else we will be punished?

Actually yes he did, before Jesus Christ came along and died for our sins God was having a pretty rough time dealing with the people he had created. If you look all over the old testament in the Bible you will see God's wrath. One example is of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.(Gen:19:24.NIV) God had seen enough and heard enough about those two cities that he could no longer stand it anymore, so what happened, he destroyed them. Wow, isn't that a powerful message to send right? I mean if God saw the way they were all acting and the things they were doing and destroyed them what would he do to us? What a great way to keep Christians in line and try to keep them doing the things of God, tell them stories of God's wrath. It is the same way we teach our children as parents, do something wrong and you will be punished for it. Well what is this "tool" then that we are using? It is called FEAR.

Read -The Fear of the Lord pt.2 - Tomorrow