Evangelicals have a higher than average divorce rate than other denominations and religions. This is shameful and evidence that this group does not follow the Bible they claim to believe.
Believing means following, if someone does not search the scripture to discover God's will then he is lying when he says he believes the Bible.
When the culture is the measure of truth then there is no desire for the Bible, only an appearance to satisfy a churchy group.
In order to know truth from the Bible one must pray for understanding from the Holy Spirit, otherwise, a dishonest person will seek scriptures out of context to fit what they want to believe rather than what God meant.
When you are confronted with a disagreement concerning the Bible is your first thought to go to prayer and searching scripture to find God's meaning? Most people do not do this, we know it because they hold onto unbiblical stances even becoming angry at the challenge to test them with scripture.
In the cultural Christianity I grew up with it was common for people not to understand basic Biblical truth. When asked if they were a Christian they would tell you which church they attend. They didn't even know what it meant to be a Christian.
This same cultural Christianity changed their belief system over the years to match pitch with the culture around them first, then quoted scripture out of context to allow themselves to be comfortable with their false understandings.
This is why I call it "cultural Christianity" and have rejected it.
As some of you have experienced I too have been more rejected by cultural Christians than by unbelievers. Since the unbelievers have no information about the Bible they just listen when I speak to them but the cultural Christians will argue their false point as though it is in the Bible and refuse to listen to the Bible when I quote it.
The cultural Christian has been more likely to fight, demean, and rejected as well as begin character assassination when the other things do not work. By "work" I mean they didn't see me apologizing for telling the truth or backing down. Then is when the maligning of my person begins.
We live in a culture now that says they know God but they do not. Knowing God is not merely knowing about Him as they think. Knowing God is knowing His heart from scripture and the Holy Spirit Who lives in born again believers. Our desire to know God is to desire to know His will for us, His love for truth while seeking it in the word, not to justify what we want to believe but to obey what He actually said.
Matthew 22:36-38 "…36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” 37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.…"
If we love Christ with all our heart, soul, and mind, He will come first above all other things and people.
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