I think a lot of the misunderstanding about Christianity is due to the bad examples displayed by some famous people who say they are Christians but are not, so people get the wrong impression.
Then there are those bad examples who say you must work your way to heaven, and that is not the gospel (good news) message.
I don’t know how widespread it is, but the church I was attending seemed content to keep the Holy Spirit in a closet in a back room. People seemed to want to hear of the forgiveness by Jesus but would rather not hear of the guidance and convictions by the Holy Spirit.
More problematic are the non-Christians who think they can pick and choose an interpretation of what Christianity is or should be and try to bind that on Christians as social/governmental policy while ignoring all the black and white situations. So we’re nagged to love our neighbors and feed the homeless (open borders, free everything) and not judge (love is love), etc., but how dare Christians remind anyone that sex is for married people, that God hates homosexuality, that abortion is murder, etc. Truly backward and wicked, and we’ve given in and allowed this to happen.
I think a lot of the misunderstanding about Christianity is due to the bad examples displayed by some famous people who say they are Christians but are not, so people get the wrong impression.
Like, ummm, that Trump guy?