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Originally Posted by Amelia112
'What is our Identity in Christ' is not too different from the question, 'Who are we in life?'
Identity in Christ means to accept that God loves us unconditionally, that he has a purpose for us, that we are a masterpiece made by his hands and so on. But even we Christians struggle with the demons of our past. The voices that tell us we are horrible, unworthy of love etc. But to find that God has no judgment on us, even if we have ALL the judgment in the world upon ourselves, to find that God trusts us to be great, to accept he loves us without condition - is when we find our identity. If we Christians believe the voice of truth and refuse to believe the lies our past has fed us, that is where we find our identity, our place and purpose in this world and in God..
(Haha, and now everyone will think I am a lunatic :-) But I am just a person with an identity in Christ!)
I am glad you have a counselor who shares your faith, I know how wonderful that is.
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Wait... God has no judgement on us? So who decides about heaven or hell and sends floods and turns people to stone and banishes them from the garden and all that? Isn't god supposed to be the ultimate judge? Doesn't the harshness of the way we judge ourselves and each other stem (at least in part) from a value system that is predicated upon religious (which in America basically = Christian) notions of righteousness/sin, reward/punishment, clean/unclean etc.
Truly curious, not baiting. This is definitely not my understanding of any monotheistic religion. I had never heard the expression identity in Christ, so thank you for your explanation.