Monday, October 13, 2008

My Decision to Receive Christ As My Personal Saviour

So I was biking to the library a few minutes ago and there was this guy standing in the middle of traffic (bike traffic, that is, since it's a university,) handing out little green books. Everybody was avoiding him, so I figured he was probably some religious fanatic.

Anyway, I decided that it would probably be worth a slight (meaning about 2 foot) detour from my route to procure one of these books, just to see what they're all about. I was entirely wrong, yet entirely right at the same time.

Here's a fun quote from The Book of Psalms (38:7)
For my loins are full of inflammation, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

This isn't true, by the way. My loins are quite normal and my flesh is mostly sound. I just thought it was a funny quote.

Back to the point, though, I decided that the back flap was the best part of the book. There's a line in the back to sign and date in order to affirm that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your "saviour." It says this:

My Decision to Receive Christ As My Personal Saviour
Confessing to God that I am a sinner, and believing that the Lord Jesus Christ died for my sins on the cross and was raised for my justification, I do now receive and confess Him as my personal Saviour.
_______________________________________
NAME
_______________________________________
DATE

I'm not going to sign or date this. In fact, I'm probably going to throw it into a fountain on my way to my next class. It's quite absurd to believe that anybody would change their most fundamental beliefs in response to a little green booklet. Or maybe I should leave it in a bathroom, for someone to use as toilet paper or some nice on-the-toilet reading. Or perhaps I could use it as very ineffective bludgeon, just to be sacrilegious.

Anyway, I still think that religious people are dumb.

And this is what I think of Jesus

1 comment:

Alex Rudolph said...

I don't know, I always sort of liked the idea of writing in a bible. You should go through it with a red pen and change what you don't like, then sign "God" and date "0/7/(infinity)." That would be pretty awesome.