loving precious jesus

Why can't it be just about experiencing the love of God? Why not just about knowing the Holy Spirit, living by the wisdom in the Bible? Instead, new believers have to feel guilty about their Sin. Let's be honest, most people are not sinners but are struggling. They struggle in their jobs, their finances, their health etc. They struggle to pay the bills, to find someone who actually cares about them. They feel normal human emotions like anger, frustrations, hate, even lust. Why is that evil? Now such a person would love to experience the love of Jesus & the guidance of the Holy Spirit. But to reach there, they first have to confess their sins, feel bad about themselves. It is almost as if sin is the key concept in the Bible. My parents know me with all my shortcomings. They still love me, and never ask me to confess my so called "sins" everyday for them to love me. Why is it different with God the Father then? If Christianity was more about spreading the love and forgiveness of Jesus, and less about the condemnation of Sin - we would have lot more believers. Who doesn't want God as a personal friend? And just for the sake of argument, here is what other religions say on the topic of sin: Hinduism: The concept of Sin doesn't even exists. They have more of a guidelines about living an ethical life. Islam: The concept of Sin exists, and good deeds must be performed regularly to outweight the quota of sin in a person's life. Buddhism: The concept of Sin doesn't exists. "Paapa" or "Punya" are towards another person, whereas Biblical Sin is against God. Just to make it clear, I am not supporting Sin. I do believe in working with the Holy Spirit to get rid of the sins, as God and Sin cannot co-exist. However, my problem is specifically about people having to confess themselves as sinners every day, even though their so called "sins" would be something as insignificant as getting up late in the morning.

Hi everyone, just thought I should update you all on this situation. After that day, I was so overwhelmed with everything that I resigned everything to God. I had a honest prayer - wherein I said "Dear God, let your will be done". That's all I could do. And thankfully, the girl's family said no a few days later! Apparently they had second thoughts on going ahead with this. (her brother did called me up a few days later to ask me about my job, future plans etc.) This is amazing and I am so relieved. Most importantly, I realized that it is when you are about to lose Christianity and this personal, intimate relationship with God forever - that you realize how much you depend on it, love it and can't do without it. The very next Sunday, I attended a church for the first time in over 6 years and it was great. I'll make sure I never leave fellowship again, and am looking to go as deep into Christianity as possible to find out for myself where it leads me. Thanks again to whoever took the time to read/reply to this thread.

Please note that I have also put this up on few other forums to get responses. Praise & thanks to the Lord for having Christian forums like these. This is urgent so I would really appreciate your inputs. I was born in a different religion, but the concept of Christianity slowly grew on me since last 10-11 years or so. I am 31 years old now, and started gaining a keen interest in Christianity when I was about 20-21 years old. So even though I didn't had any major testimony or experience that transformed my heart, I still believe the Gospel and have accepted Christ as my Lord & Savior. I try to live by the word each day, and daily communion with the Holy Spirit throughout the day makes me glad. However, I wouldn't say that I am a mature Christian yet, and have a long way to go. Now here is the problem - my family highly objected to me going to Church regularly, and I had to stop fellowship as a result. That was about 6 years ago. So I kept my relationship with Christ as a personal secret, reading the word and growing spiritually - but in the secrecy of my heart. To the rest of my family, Christianity is not much a part of my life anymore - when in reality it is the biggest part of my life. I literally rely on it for everything, as I am very un-gifted and weak/immature/unwise in the flesh. Now my family started to look for marriage proposals for myself, and after years of being unsuccessfull at finding a suitable match - they have now found a girl. I did talked to her, and she sounds like a very good girl, comes from a modest background, comes from our religion and cultural background (non-christian). Everything matched between us, she has also said yes and I have no reason to say no. Except that I am really looking forward to a biblical marriage with a believer. I don't want to marry a person from another faith, hoping that someday they will too believe, and risk my spiritual intimacy with Christ as a result. So what do I do now? -At this stage I can't tell my family that I can't marry because I haven't even told them about my faith in Christ fully. -Also, I am not a very good candidate for marriage per se. My educatonal qualifications, current financial status and looks etc. are not that great - and are only now getting better as I sow the word of God as the seed in these areas. So If I do say no to this marriage, it is very likely that I may not get another marriage proposal atleast from my religion. (I am almost 32, and in our part of the world - that's too late already) Lastly, I do not know how an actual, real body of Christ will recieve me. If I propose a girl from a Christian family - will they reject me stating that my faith is just some story that I made up? (I am not baptized or anything, nor have I shared my faith publicly yet.) So if I let this one go, will I remain unmarried after not finding a match in either of the communities? I just don't have time as the family are expecting my go-ahead by tomorrow. Please help.