Why I'm Not A Christian

If you know me and you read my blog what I'm about to say is not going to shake the very core of your belief system or make you wonder about me.

I am not a christian.

I know right?

I'm not a christian.

I have never been a christian and will never be a christian.

Why you ask?

Think about it.

Christianity - relating to or professing christianity or its teachings.

Do you see Jesus' name in there anywhere?

Neither did I.

Over the years its always made me uncomfortable when people asked me if I was a christian and maybe it was this deep buried belief of something closer to the truth.

Labels, labels, labels, we love our adjectives and to stick labels on everything.  Everything has to have a label right?

If I'm going to be labeled I'm going to label myself, but thanks anyway, you have fun with that.

When people ask me what I am, because they always ask you what you are, like one statement can define you (eyes rolling so far back in my head my brain tried to cover up), I always tell them I'm a Jesus Freak, or The Renegade of Grace, I'm Ride or Die or a Wild One.  There are so many more I could use that would be totally funny and amusing, but these are the ones I trust.

I'm not a christian and proud of it.

I'm a child of the most high God, His precious and cherished daughter.

Christians were those people in the bible who followed Jesus and His teachings.

Try this on for size.

What if?

What if it was said for the first time like a racial slur?  What if it was pronounced with disdain and hatred?

What if the term was never ever meant to sound anything but condescending?

What if the Pharisees hatred was so deep they said, "we'll call them christians, those fools!  We'll show them!"

Let's face it, they don't look anything like Jesus.

People will tell you if you follow Jesus you have to be a christian, no hell no I don't!

Jesus lives inside me, so there's no following to be done, we are in union every moment of every day.

Christians was a term coined before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, when all biblical prophecy was fulfilled.

It says they called them christians.

Who called them christians?

It doesn't say they called themselves christians, it says someone else did it.

Name calling seems to be a thing with people and I totally feel this is what was done.

"Those christians, they make me sick, they won't stop talking about Jesus."

Like really think about it!

It's mentioned three times in the new testament, but let's face it we're talking about the bible here.  The book that paints God to be this destructive killing machine monster who sacrificed His own son, because He couldn't stand us.

The book that was written and edited and re-edited, and re-edited, then given to kings to pick out their favorite parts and lets not leave out the part where men are trying to control the behavior of others, rather than setting them free to know and love and understand the Father's heart.

Don't even think I'm beating up the bible, because I love the bible, but I don't have to agree with the way it's been used to hurt humanity and the brethren.  I don't have to agree with all the wrong teaching, totally out of context, totally not about us and everything having happened already.

No rapture of the church, no hell, nothing the boogy men preachers of days long past taught and believe me when I tell you they couldn't have been more wrong.  I'm sure Billy Graham was completely taken by surprise that he really didn't know, he just taught it the way others before him had taught it without question, because let's face it, we're talking about the bible here and men.  Men have always tried to control one another and they have always used the bible to control the behavior of others from the very start.

When you look at the bible correctly, audience, time table, the events that actually took place, what is metaphorical and what isn't, you begin to see truths no one else has ever taught you.

I see academics every day all day long debating about it.

If you don't know what an academic is then you don't know one.

Anyway, I'm not a christian.

Truth be told you're not a christian.

None of us are christians.

We are sons and daughters.

We weren't born sinners because all those guys died back in 70AD, we were born children.

We're not Jews or even Gentiles.

We're not even the audience!

I'm a precious cherished daughter of God.  I'm a beautiful warrior, a force to be reckoned with, a non-conformist, a heretic, a world changer, a lover of people, the list goes on and on, because no one word can define me.  I'm not that girl that's going to jump on your "amen" train just because everyone else is doing.  I'm not that girl you are going to tell what to do, because I'm not built that way. 

I don't want to be like everyone else.  I wasn't made from a cookie cutter, I am unique and there is no one else in the entire universe like me.  You're not going to trick me into believing just anything and I'm pretty dang smart.

There's so much still to be understood, to be taught correctly, to change our minds about, but this one thing I know for sure, I am not a christian and neither are you.

We are children, we have always been children and will always be children.

We cannot continue to write ourselves in the narrative of a book that isn't even about us and never was.

We have to grow up, learn real truths, embrace what is truth for us and move on in love, because people need love so much more than anything else.

I'm so greasy with grace and love and truth, your labels slip right off me anyway.

He already saved the world and now you're in it.

Now get in the pit and try to love someone.