“If being a Christian is to be like some people I have met…., and I wasn’t already a Christian I would run the other way swearing never to become a Christian….” this is true. Some Christians scare the living daylights out of me. Not because I am an un-believer, which they think is the reason they scare me, but because they behave like the Pharisees Jesus chastised throughout the Gospels. Petty, judgmental, self-righteous, dishonest, and quite vicious in their approach to people who do not bow to their “party-line”.
On the other hand: “Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help both equally.”
I once met a man who was a born again Christian, and honestly thought and practiced the very opposite of the latter quote above. He was a doctor, and if a Christian (he knew to be Christian) came into the hospital at the same time with a homeless or drug addict, he would treat the Christian first, regardless of whether the Christian was more need or not.
To me this is significant for the kind of Christians that scare me.
The very opposite to this, in my opinion, is Jesus Christ. I must say that I often wonder at how these people read the Holy Scriptures. They seem to be more interested in quoting Romans 1 at people than living Matthew 5-7.
For being violently opposed to adhering to the Law of Moses, which they profess is part of their Holy Scriptures, they strike me as very legalistic and akin to the Pharisees the denounce.
