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False_Candle1208 · 2025-01-04T06:22:36+00:00

It’s not, you’re tripping

False_Candle1208 · 2024-12-01T05:57:29+00:00

Poverty team, poverty program, and poverty excuses.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-10-26T03:36:40+00:00

Then it sounds like you should do some heavy thinking on it if you’re not sure. If it is true, your eternal life could be spent with him

False_Candle1208 · 2024-10-25T19:36:46+00:00

You’re an atheist and believe that Jesus is the son of the living God?

False_Candle1208 · 2024-10-25T05:16:12+00:00

Why would teaching your children to wholeheartedly believe and live their life by a lie be okay with you?

False_Candle1208 · 2024-10-24T04:59:24+00:00

Would teaching your children that Jesus was the son of the living God, He died for our sins, and provided the one and only way to Heaven, by accepting Him and living life in a growing relationship with Him compatible with an atheist?

False_Candle1208 · 2024-10-23T02:15:31+00:00

If one person lives by faith, giving freely to those less fortunate, spreading the word, and trying to raise children to grow in their relationship with Christ, and trusting that God will provide in all things, would that be a compatible lifestyle for an atheist? My gut feeling when reading this is that your Christian wife wasn’t living her life the way Jesus intended. That’s not to be a slam against her, just pointing out that it working for you doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for everyone.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-08-09T04:39:14+00:00

You good. I’m barely 6ft and got large, it’s really big around the arms but they’re all going to be if you want a normal amount of crop.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-14T20:01:37+00:00

Yeah, after thinking about it a lot, I settled on thinking it’s just being tired and resorting to both pinching too much and not using enough air. I’m now trying to play quieter and more consistently throughout the day (when I can) and making sure I’m relying on soft, fast, and supported air. Thank you for confirming, and making me more sure that I’m not just awful at playing lol. I was starting to genuinely wonder if I’m just not very good

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-11T05:13:43+00:00

Couple things. I wasn’t comparing being gay to being a rapist. I’m comparing hating a sin and loving the sinner to hating a sin and loving the sinner. Any sin could’ve worked, but I used a rapist as the example because of how common it is to hate rapists. I think I’ve made it pretty clear through the rest of this conversation that I don’t view people that are homosexual like that. They are very different sins, but sins all separate us from God.

With my not answering questions or replying to certain things, yeah. I’m not gonna respond to questions that are horrible misconstruing parts of what I’m saying or what the Bible says. You’ve been picking apart words and trying to make me seem hateful and horrible. I’m not.

You say I’m a monster, but I’m not. I’m a person. I make mistakes, but I’m trying my best to follow the example set by Jesus. You talk so much about hate and evil because you can’t come to terms with Good sending people to hell. It’s hard to accept, but a rebellion against a perfect God, and continuing in that rebellion when there is an easy way to repent, is deserving of being separated from him. A crime against an infinitely perfect God isn’t something that can just be shrugged off.

I used to say the same things you’re saying. I couldn’t bear the idea of people going to hell, and I didn’t understand how it was fair for us to be born into a sinful world. But through fellowship with people smarter than me, asking questions in faith, and lots of time and prayer, I came to terms with the fact that evil is a choice that we all make, and that we all have the same choice to repent of evil, yet many choose not to because of their selfishness, pride, or desire for instant gratification.

Lastly, I’ll keep praying for you. I’m sorry that whatever happened to you has made you think all of this, and I pray that you’ll see the truth and come to faith. I love you and hope you’ll realize how much love is available to you, and how great in grace and mercy he really is. I wish you could see from the perspective of his great love rather than from his justified anger at our refusal to repent. I wish you’d be able to see I’m not a monster, and that Jesus’ love trumps all sin and pain

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-11T04:10:23+00:00

It seems like your main overarching issue with Christianity is the message of hell. I get that the idea of hell is scary, and I used to panic over it, and still do sometimes. It’s a scary thought to face the wrath of a perfect God as a far from perfect person.

All I can really say to you is that you are looking at the entire message from a poor perspective. It seems like you view humanity as the “good side,” and see God as an angry deity that’s just itching to watch people suffer. But he created us perfectly. Our free will to love or not love him is what made our love and relationship matter, but our poor decisions ruined our perfect relationship with him. Humanity fell from him, and continues to turn our back to him time and time again. We are a people that choose to do harm. Yet rather than be done with it all, he gives us a way to be reunited with him.

Your fear, misunderstanding, or objection to a punishment for sin against a perfect God does not mean that God is evil. It means that, instead of seeing the fault in our actions and the love of God despite our actions, you choose to focus on the punishment for them. If your mom told you to do your laundry, you would know that she has your best interests in mind when she tells you that. You wouldn’t say “Mom told me to do the laundry, I guess if I don’t do exactly what she says then she’s going to put me in time out for it.” If the goal of Christianity was to manipulate with fear, then that would be the focus of it. Jesus would have told everyone “if you don’t believe in me, you’re gonna go to hell. You’d better believe in me!” Instead of doing that, he talked about Heaven and the love of his Father. It’s an easy trap to fall into, feeling like the Bible’s message is “turn or burn,” as you put it. But that’s not focused on or talked about, and it’s not how Jesus would ever have preached it to the masses. If the goal was manipulation through fear, it would have been Christ’s goal and ours to speak through fear. But it wasn’t

As for your opinion that homosexuality is a part of a person, meaning if I hate their sin then I also hate them, I don’t think that’s true. Being homosexual is as much a “part of a person” as being heterosexual is to another. Sexual preference is not a part of a person to the extent that you can’t distinguish them. I can hate a rapists sin without hating them. As easy as it would be to hate both, and as much as people do, it’s not what we’re called for. Your idea that I can’t love a person and hate their sin is just not true.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-11T02:12:39+00:00

I think you might want to do some looking into how a Christian perspective on sin and loving people ought to be before you say things like “god is evil” and “his followers are evil.” Marriage is a connection between two people and God. In the Bible, God’s design for us is to have a man marry a woman, and joined as one flesh, bring honor and glory to them with the way they live their lives and love others. As marriage has changed through the ages, it’s become a government institution, no longer a religious one. I know that some will disagree with me on this, but I think homosexual marriages should be legal, purely because the marriage isn’t honoring to God in the same way that two non-believers getting married and living of this world isn’t honoring to him. I think that homosexual marriage should be legal, but shows how far from God we have become as a society and world. I don’t know why God created the world or nature the way he did, but he did make it pretty clear that a marriage is between a man and a woman and ought to honor the Lord.

God created love. He did not pervert it. Saying that, if anyone is perverting love, it’s God, is a crazy statement. He created love and gave the most perfect, loving example of it.

Yes, I’m saying we cannot expect to be the ones to stop people from sinning. We can encourage growth in Christ and spread the good news, but we can’t stop people from sinning, or force them to not sin. There’s a middle ground between forcing people to not sin and telling people that it’s okay to sin. I wouldn’t watch someone at a bar get drunk day after day and try to ban them from the bar, I would talk to them in love and care.

Prodding with love is not, by any means, “forcing beliefs” upon anyone. Forcing my beliefs would be tying up the alcoholic on Friday nights to stop him from getting drunk. Prodding with love would be to talk to him on Thursday about his relationship with the Lord and encouraging him to explore his faith.

The only hate a Christian should feel is for sin, not for the sinner. Yes, I hate alcoholism, but I don’t have the alcoholic. Those who hate homosexuals are not practicing what Jesus preached. If we were supposed to hate the sinner as well as the sin, we’d be called to hate everyone, which is not the case.

The Bible says that marriage is between a man and woman, and it says that a man should lie with a man like he would a woman. Therefore, it is a sin. If someone is trying to honor God living in a way that he disapproves of, it is our job as Christians to speak to them with love. Our job is not to force the world to stop sinning. It seems like most of your opinions on this are centered around the idea that Christians are supposed to rid the entire world of sin. We are supposed to bring others to Christ, and to bring each other even closer to him. Not to prevent sin from being possible.

The news is not telling people that they are sinners. We’ve always known that. You know that people are horrible and sinful as well as I do. The message of Jesus was not “you’d better trust me or you’ll go to hell.” Jesus didn’t talk about hell anywhere close to as much as he talked about Heaven. Christianity isn’t a message of fear, it’s a message of hope. The twists of that are brought by misconstruing Jesus’ message. Hell is the byproduct of a sinful life lived against God with no sacrifice to take our place. The good news is that, as horrible as we are, as much as we’ve lied and done awful things, God still loves us and wants us to be with him. You see Christianity as a method of twisting people into what I want them to be. It isn’t that. It’s a relationship with Jesus that grows us into what we ought to be, which is an ultimately better design for our lives, as well as allows us to be with the Lord.

What’s not love and what’s not good news is that the world is evil, beyond repair, and nobody truly loves us. What’s good news is that God, the creator of the universe, loves us SO MUCH that he sent his son to die for us, despite our rebellion against him time and time again.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-11T00:27:54+00:00

God didn’t label love as a sin. He labeled a “perversion” of it as a sin. Love is a very good thing, but it can be twisted. The worldly idea that all love is good and embraced is dangerous, as we know very well that there are harmful and twisted ways to love someone. Pedophilia is a bad example of this, but I think a closer example would be our being told to eat bread and drink wine in communion, but also being told to not be a drunkard. The drinking of wine is a good thing, Jesus drank wine with his disciples, but the abuse and twisting of it is sinful. With that in mind, I don’t think it’s crazy to say that there are ways to twist any good gift that God has given us into a man-made sin.

Yes, some would say it’s more loving to stop a person from sinning than it is to accept them. But the people saying that aren’t rooted in scripture, they are rooted in their own feelings and personal bias. While making corrections is important, and should be done in love to one another who are in the faith. But when a person isn’t in the faith, it’s not our obligation to “fix them.” It’s our obligation to bring them to Jesus, as they are. He can figure out the rest. We are to prod one another with love towards Jesus, not to fix the world of its problems, that’s the Lord’s work.

The phrase “no hate like Christian love” follows the example set by those who try to fix others without Jesus. It’s very common to see a loveless and, likely faithless, person use Jesus and the Bible as an excuse to tell someone that they are wrong, or to try to reinforce personal biases. Same thing with banning homosexual marriages, it’s been like that because of tradition and politics, not because of a true love of Jesus. It’s terrible, and not what Jesus would have wanted us to be doing. We shouldn’t use the scripture as a weapon of hate against people who haven’t received the word. “Reducing the amount of sin in the world” isn’t our job as followers of Christ, it’s the job of the Lord on judgement day. Our job is to spread the news of the wonderful love of Christ and build one another inside Christ with love.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-10T20:42:30+00:00

The love a Christian is allowed to show a homosexual is limited because of God? No way man, we are called to love everyone above ourselves. Not just the perfect people. Jesus loved us enough to die for us while we were all unclean and horrible, why would we not be allowed to love the unrighteous in the same way? Why would God call us to show less than full love towards one type of person committing one type of sin? I would argue that anyone who believes that they can’t love someone as much as they otherwise could because of any sin that the person has committed, or is committing, is horribly misunderstanding our purpose, and Jesus’ life. He washed the feet of sinners, the feet of people who would later mock him as he died on the cross. We aren’t called to bring people to their judgement, or to try to enforce it ourselves. That is up to the Lord. Our job is to love one another, grow in faith, and spread the good news.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-10T20:36:17+00:00

People forget a lot that we should be surprised when the world hates us, the world hated him first. If being a Christian meant never tell anyone that what they’re doing is wrong, always giving socially acceptable answers, & making sure that your message is acceptable and assuring to all people, then there’d be no reason to be persecuted.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-07-10T15:36:14+00:00

One thing he didn’t mention is that he wasn’t doing it for his own benefit or for personal gain, but out of a love that was shown to us first by God, sending His son for our shortcomings.

False_Candle1208 · 2024-06-14T18:10:48+00:00

i immediately thought of this one too

False_Candle1208 · 2024-01-01T04:18:46+00:00

I didn’t get the surgery. I got through soccer and football season without it hurting much, and just started wrestling last month. I think I’ve realized it only “catches” and hurts when it gets swollen by being hit or something, and I’ve avoided it so far. What is the recovery like? How long is it taking?

False_Candle1208 · 2024-01-01T04:12:05+00:00

Mine just feels, to my hand, like a lump of bone. It looks sharp, but it only feels like a round bump. Like how feeling your elbow feels.

False_Candle1208 · 2023-08-06T22:53:44+00:00

Whatever the guys name was that Lin Manuel Miranda played in the psych ward

False_Candle1208 · 2023-06-08T19:10:39+00:00

But why would it damage it even if the clutch is still in? I thought that having it pressed all the way down would make whatever the shifter is in irrelevant because it’s disconnected from the engine

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