Born Again Christianity is Not a Sect.

As much as it pains me to say it, there are people out there calling themselves Christians, who do not, in fact, worship Christ, just as there are Jews out there who do not worship the God of Abraham and Isaac. In fact, if I may stray off the path of this article for a moment, there are Jews out there who actually worship Jesus. They are called Messianic Jews and they are hated far worse than we "born agains" are. But the "Christians" who do not really worship Christ are the ones causing the most trouble and harassment because they simply cannot understand what the rest of us are experiencing. We always hate that which we don't understand. Trouble of it is, it's pretty much a one-sided hatred.

The so called Christians who don't know Christ are not Christians at all, but fakers. They lie and deceive just like their father the devil, and worst of all, they also deceive themselves, because they have no idea of what it really means to be a Christian. Why, the word Christian itself implies that you are a follower of Christ. If you are not a follower of Christ then why bother calling yourself one? Trust me when I tell you this: There is no secondary off-shoot of the Christian faith called the "born agains". The born agains are the only real Christians there are. Remember, I told you at the beginning that born again is merely a term we use to describe people who worship Jesus as Lord and Savior. It implies nothing further than that.

Why make a mountain out of a molehill? Why place extra sins on the shoulders of people who already know they are sinners? They are sinners saved by Grace, but still sinners, nonetheless. Ask any non-believer if he or she is a sinner and chances are really good that they will deny it vehemently. Ask any born again Christian that same question and you're liable to get an entire testimony of repented sins. People don't like to be told they are sinners, and that is understandable because we all want to think of ourselves as "holier than thou", but it never works, because we're not. We are all equally sinful, and it doesn't matter who we are, we are all sinners of the same caliber. The terrorists who destroyed all those innocent lives on 9/11 were no more guilty of sin than I am or you are. Adolph Hitler was no more guilty of sin than I am or you are.

We think of those people's sins as being far worse than our own, because of the horrible things that they did during their lifetimes, but truth be told, God hates all sin, and none of us are righteous, no, not one. The Christian is not righteous, the Jew is not righteous, the Buddhist is not righteous, the Atheist is not righteous. We are all in the same sin boat together, and it's a leaky one. Christians accept the fact that we are sinners and we seek only God's forgiveness, nothing more. If you seek that forgiveness and repent of your sins, then Grace will be given to you and you will be saved from a sure destination of hell. But if you continue to go on thinking of yourself as sinless and perfect, you are condemned to hell whether you like it or not.

It is far easier to commit the sin than it is to repent of it and never do it again, which is why we backslide from time to time, but I think the worst thing each of us can do to ourselves is deny that we sin in the first place. Yes, Christians do sin, and yes we are aware of the fact, and yes, we do repent of those sins when God chastises us for them. We are not a cult, we are not a sect. We are born again Christians and we simply and irrevocably believe.