Why don’t people take prisoners religious belief seriously? Do they misconstrue righteous with being perfect?

All of us falter in life despite financial status, race, nationality, age, sex, creed, social popularity, or religious affiliations. Depending on your belief you’ll recognize that all there’s a higher power pardoning sin.

Christians consider ex-cons and felons as being of Satan. Everybody claimed of wrongdoing isn’t just sinners. Sometimes they’re Christian themselves as in Jesus himself, Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, and John the Baptist.

Read Galatians 3:2 which Apostle Paul stated:”Let me ask you this one question:’Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ. How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? Have you experienced so much for nothing? Surely, it was not in vain, was it?’”

Traditional Christians are so focused on tradition rather than followers of Christ that they disregard brothers or sisters in Christ because they don’t worship God in the same manner they do. Being a prisoner adds insult to the Christians perception of what a true Christian is.

If people disbelieve Muslim followers that they’ve seen Allah or Christian followers that they’ve witnessed a miracle from God, how much more difficult it is to believe a prisoner proclaiming to talk to God? Being an ex-con or felon takes away credibility even if you’re not convicted of a crime of moral turpitude.

They want to label you the Antichrist once you speak in a Godly manner. However, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 states: “Don’t be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed – the one who brings destruction. He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call God and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.”

Why do people not understand Jesus Christ came to save the sinners? It’s very sad to see Christians not fellowship with other Christians simply because they’re labeled convicts. If I’m loving God with all my heart, all my mind, and all my soul, why do you reject me? See Mark 12:30 “And you must love your Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.”

Furthermore, in Mark 12:10 says “The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.”

Prisoners shouldn’t be criticized for their beliefs regardless of scrutiny against them as human beings.

Joel Aaron Burrell #1201708
Keen Mountain Correctional Center
PO Box 860
Oakwood, VA  24631
https://www.jpay.com

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