Sorry for the extended hiatus. Baseball has ended so I get a large portion of my life back now. Let me reset with a survey question. What do you think is the most difficult aspect of Christianity? I hear a variety of them but I was curious what you guys thought about it.
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I think it might be different for different people depending on your personality and experiences. Some people have a skeptical nature and will deal with doubting their whole lives. Some people are given more to an impulsive or driven nature and struggle with lust sins (adultery, gluttony, greed, etc.)
Also, I think that God understands the differences between us as individuals. C.S. Lewis talks about this in his book Mere Christianity. "When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend...Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends."
So I guess if I had to sum it up, the hardest part of Christianity to me is denying my "self" what it wants. No matter my upbringing or genetic predisposition, I am called into obedience to God and to make choices sometimes contrary to what my flesh wants to do.
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