We Are Not Accepted "As We Are."

I was once told that I "should accept people for who they are", whatever that means.

I asked the person are you accepting me for who I am, a person who does not accept someone else for who they are?"

Christ does not accept us as we are, He takes us and cleans us up. We don't come to Christ to be ourselves, we come to Christ to become a new creation, completely changed.

1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Titus 3:5 "He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,"

Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

Galatians 5:24 "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires."

1 Corinthians 6:9 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,"

So all that you have heard over the years about God accepting you as you are is not only false but dangerous.

God cannot accept any sin in His presence, the only way that we can be acceptable to God is by the sacrifice of Christ. That is just how wicked we are, God cannot even look upon us unless we have the Holy Spirit for Him to see in us.