This list came about from a long meditation on myself, of the god I worshipped most of my life.  Ever since, I have wondered if I would have been allowed into Heaven or would have been one calling to Jesus to hear Him say “I knew you not.”  I hope it provokes some thought in your own belief.   

My old god:

--did not create the earth in six days

--did not create it covered in water

--did not create plants before the sun nor the earth before the sun

--did not create man from clay

--did not create a woman from man's rib

--did not create a garden called Eden

--did not have a man build an ark

--did not destroy the earth with a flood

--did not ask a man to sacrifice his son

--did not have a boy defeat a giant

--did not send plagues on Israel

--did not part the Red Sea

--did not lead His people by a column of fire

--did not lead a slave to second in command of a nation

--did not protect three men from a fiery death in a furnace

--did not protect another in a Den of Lions

--did not mean for people of our century to follow the rules given to another century

--did not mind premarital sex, pornography or homosexuality (they were born that way)

--did not mind divorce (if they were really unhappy)

--did not mind adultery if it was an agreed upon 'open marriage'

--did not care about white lies, or small thievery (its only a dollar...)

--did not mind doing whatever it takes to get ahead

--did not mind spending more time on making and spending money than with Him

And on and on.  But my god WAS named Jesus who had a father in Heaven and who came to earth, preached, healed, forgave, had disciples and died on a cross for my sins so that I could join him in heaven.  And I believed in my god very strongly.  Was I saved?  I don't have an answer to that.  But my God sounds less like the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is the Great I Am, and more like the God of Arthur, the great who-I-want-him-to-be.

Why?  Because of this single issue: I did not believe the scriptures.  To me, science had 'proven' them wrong.  The Bible was 'poetry with a point' and nothing more.  The Old Testament merely Aesop’s Fables and the New Testament 100% truthful preaching for those 2000 years ago but really did not apply to us living today.  Why?  All because science had proven Genesis 1-11 wrong in my mind.

So, what god was I worshipping?  Was I saved?  Do you see my point?  And the big question, “What God do you worship?”

In His service... Arthur Smith