When man is involved there will be failure, ever since Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree failure has been a sort of promise. We, as humans, are as far from perfect as a bucket full of holes trying to carry water. Due to this, no human endeavor is entirely foolproof, including our religions. The Christian church had been around since shortly after the switch from B.C. to A.D. because of its longevity there has been a whole slew of triumphs and pit falls, and some of those still follow the church today. The Bible speaks of worship constantly, over eight thousand times actually, and throughout the entirety of the Holy Book the proper way to worship is spelled out clearly. Something the church has lost since the writings of the Psalms is
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When Emperor Constantine I signed the Edict of Milan and put an end to the Age of Martyrs there was an unforeseen consequence. Part of the Edict made Christianity the main religion in the Roman Empire, which lead to a large amounts of false salvations. When the threat of death was eradicated from following Jesus, and it was deemed culturally acceptable for anyone and everyone to follow Jesus it lost a lot of its sincerity. The church then began to gain power and with power can corruption and a further spreading of these false believers. While this was hundreds of years ago the mentality is also in the United States of America. As a country supposedly “Under God” most of the citizens here, when questioned, claim to be Christians, however, these claims are not supported by regularly attending church or even acting like a Christian is supposed to at all. For example, when I was growing up my Father and Step-Mother always said we were Christians, like a family unit. There was even a brief time when my father was part of a worship team at a church, however, as I grew up and learned the meaning of being a Christian I realized that what they believed in was not the Christian God. They wanted an all dogs go to heaven scenario, and it this is shown in every aspect of their lives and how they live. Unfortunately, this mentality also has made its way into the actual church, Christians all around the world are reading their cut and paste Bibles and are throwing out all aspects they do not like. This cannot truly be counteracted by anything we can do outside of telling to true good word of God, and leaving the rest to
When Emperor Constantine I signed the Edict of Milan and put an end to the Age of Martyrs there was an unforeseen consequence. Part of the Edict made Christianity the main religion in the Roman Empire, which lead to a large amounts of false salvations. When the threat of death was eradicated from following Jesus, and it was deemed culturally acceptable for anyone and everyone to follow Jesus it lost a lot of its sincerity. The church then began to gain power and with power can corruption and a further spreading of these false believers. While this was hundreds of years ago the mentality is also in the United States of America. As a country supposedly “Under God” most of the citizens here, when questioned, claim to be Christians, however, these claims are not supported by regularly attending church or even acting like a Christian is supposed to at all. For example, when I was growing up my Father and Step-Mother always said we were Christians, like a family unit. There was even a brief time when my father was part of a worship team at a church, however, as I grew up and learned the meaning of being a Christian I realized that what they believed in was not the Christian God. They wanted an all dogs go to heaven scenario, and it this is shown in every aspect of their lives and how they live. Unfortunately, this mentality also has made its way into the actual church, Christians all around the world are reading their cut and paste Bibles and are throwing out all aspects they do not like. This cannot truly be counteracted by anything we can do outside of telling to true good word of God, and leaving the rest to