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"you HAVE to stop listening to linken park(or what ever band is the "thing" today) BAD!!''
"harry potter is of the devil!! YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!! give it up."
" girls! you need to where dresses down to the ankles because the bible says it and no more make up!"
this is all you need to do to know Jesus and go to heaven...WRONG!! dead wrong! far from the truth. Christ did not die so we can still live by rules to be "good enough" to get into heaven. no! he died for us so we do not have to follow rules. he died so we can follow him (what i mean is that we live as examples of him). so there is no need for you to give up your "earthly" possessions for pleasure to be a pious. i am a regular young lady who enjoys watching the simpsons, reading harry potter and listening to Malice mizer(a japanese goth band) and i love Jesus more than anything that i would die for him.
one thing that i found so kewl about Jesus, is that we( as a society) picture Jesus on a cross and then raising up from the dead whering a nice white robe and a huge crown that looks over welming(which is true), but the kewl thing about him was he was a "dow-to-earth" kind of guy, this guy belive it or not hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors(in those days tax collectors are like our rich lieing lawyors we have today). h did not hang out with the "christians"(well he did but not all the time) he was with people that needed him the most! and thats what we should do. we should go out into the world and leave out little warm nest to talk about his humanity and messages, when you chose to be a christian(or need to eventually) that did not mean you HAVE to hang out with people like you! it means, hold on to what you believe in and go to the people that need to hear it the most.
being a christian does not mean you are the perfect soul that "heathens" do not relate to. yes being a christian means you are different and its true! and you will go through harder times than a regular being will go through, becuase its predicted in the black book the world is intimidated by. pretty scaring that it was written over 2000 years ago and it knows what we will/are going to go through in a life cycle.
in a nut shell, its not how you dresss or live a life style of strict rules. your attitdue and faith towards Jesus is what counts now! he loves you for the way you are and wants to know you personally. heart