Christians Are Not Brainwashed But Rather Soul Rinsed

     Have you ever wondered why Jesus taught in parables?   Why didn’t He just instruct in straight forward fact?   Could it be that Jesus’s 1^st Century chosen means of introducing Christianity clearly supports that followers of Christ are, indeed, not brainwashed?

     One who is brainwashed is not allowed to think through fundamental beliefs, deduce for himself what is true, and decide on his own to follow a chosen direction.   By teaching in parables, Christ encouraged thinking and deciphering messages and truth.  Jesus desired, and allowed, all to wonder about what He preached, ponder its meaning and choose, individually, to believe and follow, or not.  Christianity does not wash away man’s ability to reason.  All that gets scrubbed away by believing in, and following, Christ are our sins.

     Becoming a Christian is not resigning oneself to a brainwashing, imprisoned agreement.   It is freely signing oneself with the Cross of forgiveness and having our souls rinsed of sin and enriched with the promise of salvation.  

     Personally speaking, my human brain does not understand technology “very well”.   Ask my children and they will change my “very well” declaration to their “not at all” statement.   In comparison, like being unable to figure out the mechanics of how and why technology accomplishes what it does, I, also, lack the wisdom to fully understand some of the how and whys of God.   My life can’t figure out technology, but it sure does rely on it.   I’m not brainwashed into accepting and depending on technology.   Instead, I’ve independently chosen this result.   For me, choosing to be a Christian is a similar determination and merits being respected as such.

Without a doubt, I need Jesus Christ a lot more than I need a computer, smart phone, etc., etc., etc.    Nothing, naught, nada has brainwashed me into accepting complete dependence on Christ as my lifeline, regardless of my inability to explain concretely the complexities of our Triune God.   Christianity is my (and everyone’s) inner choice, not an outer coercion.   Bottom Line, and may I repeat, Our Lord in Heaven, and His ministers on earth, do not brainwash the minds of any of God’s children into joining the army of Christ’s soldiers.  However, when any, and all, freely choose to follow behind Christ, they are, with love and forgiveness, soul rinsed from their sins.   “But if we walk in the light, as He is the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.”  1John 1:7 (KJV)