Finally Human Thoughts on being a person

Thinking somehow if someone else does it, it’s fine

The faith which I have come to hold as most sacred to me has been a very significant factor in shaping me. Christianity has shaped the way I think about, well, pretty much everything. I am really thankful that has happened. I guess my life would look remarkably different if I had not met God, and he had not transformed my life in the way he did.

I have come to understand that the Christian faith teaches a lot of rights and wrongs. It is right to feed the homeless, to care for the unloved, to heal the sick. It is wrong to take advantage of the weak, to abuse what we are given and to forget that every life is sacred because God holds it in his hands. This talk of right and wrong is unpopular even in the Church today, some even relegating 'laws' to the Old Testament, claiming that the rules only applied to the people before Jesus came, and now we don't need rules.

I know I have always needed rules. The rules in the bible show me how to live with other people and also show me what God is like. They are a regular reminder that I am incapable of obeying them by myself, or rather with my own strength. The rules in the bible ultimately serve to show what a human being is capable of with the power of God's Spirit. That is why we say Jesus was the fulfilment of the law.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew 5:17)

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