For Believer's Only: What is happening to today's believer?

What is happening to today's believer?

Well it depends upon what exactly it is you believe in.  Christianity, which is the faith of 1/3 of the entire world, is growing, but not much in America.  Even worldwide atheism, or the anti-theist religion, is growing more rapidly  than Christianity, Judaism or Islam.  Why is this occurring?

I have a few thoughts on that subject, but I am forcefully declaring to every atheist, you have chosen a path that needs no converts and should never be offended by ridicule. If the atheist is correct, there is no consequence so there should be no concern for differing ideology because religion should be neither valuable nor harmful. The common atheist complaint about the history of death caused in the name of religion is as congruent as blaming the religion we call Islam for the decisions some make to murder in the name of Islam.  Evil people have always done bad things and hidden behind religion.  Ask those young boys who got molested by Catholic priest.  They will confirm that the bible didn't justify their abuse.

Judaism and Christianity are essentially the same except for a messianic dispute.  For every other belief system, there is no consequence if the Christian is wrong.  Only the Christian should be concerned with the salvation of mankind because only the Christian has accepted that every knee shall be made to bow and every tongue to confess.  If you dispute that belief, you accept the 'no consequence' alternative and should leave the Christian to the consequence of their own doctrinal fears.

In my mind you are a religion if you thrive through spiritual conversion and memberships.  Converts to all religions serve a purpose to the furtherance of that religious ideology.  In the end, they are the foot soldiers for the future of faith.  However, any faith that concludes that their is no ultimate consequence to sin is also saying that there is no presence or need for morality and man should feel free to test the law to its very limits since laws are the only governing force that remains.

As we debate over the existence of God we collaborate on the elimination of God from our presence.
Religious doubters prefer to eliminate the guilt of sin by eliminating the existence of God rather than  eliminate the guilt of sin by simply opening the gift of grace.  Catholicism is proof that the Christian desires the religiosity that Christ tried to save the Jew from.  We will always struggle to spread the love of God expressed through Christ when we teach it as something that any of us earn.  Our rebuke of others is an indirect judgement about what we think of God's view toward's us.  If we really knew, our words would remain more measured and more kind.

Today's believer needs to be reminded that God loves you the same way all the time.  His love doesn't rise for our good deeds or fall from our bad.  His presence might be impacted by our deeds, but even  far away God's powerful love makes him arrive on time.

Today's believer needs to know that Christ spent so much time chasing filth because he came to do all of the washing. . If you believe but not in Christ, you shouldn't have anything to worry about anyway.