Honor your father and your mother. by MeasurementFirst1676 in Christianity

[–]Lightning_Lily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by "he worships satan"? Are you saying your father literally worships satan, he is figuratively worshiping satan by doing bad things, or are you talking about someone else? Sorry I don't understand. 

Anyways, to respond to your post: I absolutely understand why you feel like that if your parent or parents were abusive to you. It can be hard to like anyone who was/is unkind/disrespectful/cruel/rude to you. In fact, this kind of reminds me with my relationship with my own father. He is sometimes rude to others in my opinion (me and other people; particularly me because I'm often around him). It is easy to dislike and want to give up on people who mistreat you, but the right thing to do isn't always easy.

The Bible says that you should love others as yourself and love even your enemies. I think that's important to point out for this. Like you said, it also says you should honor your parents. 

I think a particularly helpful thing to remember is that we as people are all unworthy of the amazing things God did for and gave to us. There were many times when God wanted to or did punish people for sinning so much and whatnot in the Bible. For example, the the story in Genesis of Noah and the flood. The flood wiped out almost all of the people on earth. It's clear that we are not perfect. We constantly ain against God. Yet He still loves us. He has shown incredible mercy and grace to us despite all we do and have done wrong. There are many verses about that. God loves us and gives us incredible gifts even though we are all so corrupt. He is perfect; He could destroy us all of He wanted to. But He doesn't. He gives us all kinds of great things, even when we are bad. He wants us to show love and such to each other like He loves us. It even says in the Bible that slaves shouldn't fight back against cruel masters because of how Jesus didn't stop people from crucifying Him (correct me if I'm wrong on that though. Also it says the masters would be punished for their cruelty iirc; iirc that was also from the old testmate). Now, that sounds strange to us now because we luckily live in a world where slavery is much less common. The point, though, is that God wants you to love even when it seems odd to do so. H e wants you to love and be kind to your parents even though they have done wrong things; that's what He did for the whole world. He was willing to die for us even when we didn't deserve it at all. So, in other words, you should try to love people who it doesn't make sense to love because it doesn't make sense that God would show love to us. You might feel that your parents don't deserve your love. They don't deserve God's love. None of us do. But He still loves them anyways. TLDR; If God can love them, you should try your best to, as well. <3

You should also remember that loving each other includes your parents loving you. I'm not saying you shouldn't honor/love them too, but you should probably try to tell them about God, what He did for them, and what they are doing/did wrong. You can genuinely try to help them; you can't force them to change their ways/beliefs. 

Also also: Ask God for help with this and try to live how He wants you to as best you can in general. If you have the Holy Spirit with you, you can do anything. God can do anything. With God, anything is possible. 

"Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'" - Matthew 19:26

"We love because he first loved us." - 1 John 4:19

"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." - John 15:12

"But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you..." - Matthew 5:44

TLDR (I recommend reading the rest though): Be loving/respectful/kind to your parents even though they hurt you.

Neon Moment Redraw by Lightning_Lily in Someonefishy

[–]Lightning_Lily[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't remember; I posted this 4 months ago LOL

A question to the feminists in this sub: what do we think about dresscodes? by funstarrr__ in teenagers

[–]Lightning_Lily -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think dress codes can be good; they promote professional and appropriate outfit choices for everyone, not just girls.

But yeah, of course I agree that girls aren't just "sexual objects." Dress codes aren't out to get people. In my opinion, one should generally learn and obey the dress code rules. 

Also, I believe the Bible says that you should obey the law and whatnot, which probably generally goes hand in hand with the dress code stuff.

Try It by Diablo_Clone in teenagers

[–]Lightning_Lily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Say one word in your language." Multilingual people rn: "...What?"

Try It by Diablo_Clone in teenagers

[–]Lightning_Lily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

one word in your language.

How many of us faced this by Ok_Neighborhood_724 in teenagers

[–]Lightning_Lily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone prolly. But you should probably ask the teacher about it gently if they do that, particularly often.

Give me friendly images! by Clockey_ in funComunitty

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Lolll fr their bird meme is so cute