One of those sayings that can drive your prejudice and steer you away from seeking the truth.
Growing up in the world of tough individualism, two sayings “Religion is for weak people who need a crutch” and, ‘God only helps those who help themselves” are embedded into the philosophy. God only helps those who help themselves is not Biblical at all, and religion being a “crutch” could be considered true if the result of ones religious beliefs causes them to remain fearful, lacking hope, discouraged, and uncritical, even if they consider themselves Christian.
If you ever heard a mentor say that when you are young, that kind of self-pride can definitely keep you away from understanding the need for a Savior.
While it is important to take on challenges, one has to stop and consider if blatant self-motivational belief standards are simply another grotesque example of idolatry.
It is possible this attitude is the result of someone who suffered rejections from authority figures (e.g. parent(s)), yet even in this case, some insight or God given sense of connection can or must be found that leads back to the God, a model that every parent was intended to model whether they understood this or not.
Regardless how much someone has felt rejection in life, we all share a common trait, and that is we all are separated by the chasm between God’s righteousness and our fallen sinful nature. A sense of humility must be attained either by inner reflection or by the divine weight of God’s providence.
Humility is the key to unlocking to layers of resistance that many of us grow up with, and humility is not an easy trait to learn. It is often the case where an awful spiritual burden has to be dumped on you in order to break you of all pretenses, when foolishness is revealed in the revealing light of true wisdom,
Humilty is a strength, not a weakness. Giving honor to those who deserve honor and respect seems like a common sense position to take, and it would be the right one where one to determine the right and just authority.
Even though main stream media has had its fun mocking Christians, if not God Himself, in a culture that seeks to appease worldly subjective values rather than seeking the absolute truth, a significant reason why beliefs like “religion is for weak people” get promoted is because many churches preach a non-Bibilical version of who Jesus Christ is.
The attributes of God are not made clear through patchwork approaches to teaching the Bible while making excuses to avoid particularly convicting passages.
Just to knock some rust off your perception of the magnitude of God, consider the famous line from Proverbs and repeated in a multitude of ways throughout the Bible, The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. – Proverbs 9:10
Moreover, if you still think God and Christ are some sort of milquetoast fabrication of people who are weak minded, consider the warning, one of many, provided by Jesus himself, speaking of the glory of God as an infinitely just and incorruptible Judge, from the Gospel of Luke 12:3-5.
“3 Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.
4 “But I say to you, My friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will show you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into ]hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!”
For a one minute explanation of the Gospel from the late Pastor John MacArthur, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCP9UcC7BzE
For a review of the Ten Commandments: https://www.challenyee.com/the-ten-commandments/
All quoted excerpts have footnotes removed, usually from Legacy Standard Bible (LSB), sometimes from New International Version (NIV), on rare occasion the Amplified Bible (AMP).
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