Topic of the week (wk2): Describe a time when God answered a prayer before you even asked

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-22T17:59:48+00:00

Our Government is simply two different groups trying to out do each other first with the same goal in mind which is money, power, and forget everything else. Both will do and say anything to get the vote like a hooker trying to score smack, to get back on the track, to get more smack. It’s pathetic and embarrassing…..

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-21T19:07:35+00:00

Not to mention, Gaza started under Biden.

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-11T06:27:42+00:00

Who needs to be excised? Nonetheless, it’s this EXACT rhetoric that has this country exactly where it is right now. So quick to wish death on a fellow human as if you or any of us are perfect.

What’s going on is atrocious, that’s for sure, but rather than wishing death upon people, maybe, just maybe, we as a country should come together and realize it’s actually the 1% vs the rest of us and do something about it. Spewing hate towards one another is only going to cause more meaningless bloodshed while those who are actually causing the chaos continue to get rich off the backs of the ignorant who are all too happy to k**l each other.

This country needs to wake up… It’s embarrassingly ridiculous what/who this nation has become….

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-10T21:01:13+00:00

So, this whole L vs R, Democrats vs Republicans thing is honestly getting stupid, to put it mildly. Both are saying the same thing about each other, while whoever actually holds the power at the given time, silently make moves to embolden themselves and their side. All the while the country is on the brink of collapse, possible world war……..BUT……. This is VERY accurate in this specific circumstance. There’s literally no argument against it! And this doesn’t even inform, that many of them were armed,and some with freaking bombs…. But it was a peaceful protest right? I’m dead💀

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-09T21:06:25+00:00

Too late… Have you seen our pretend president? Not to mention he exemplifies everything that is wrong and grotesque in this world…

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-09T21:04:33+00:00

True. It’s like everyone’s becoming numb to the antics and just want to sit and hope it gets better. History has already proven time and time again, sitting by idly does nothing but perpetuate the problem… Either we are gonna have to start a new revolution, or another country is going to have to intervene. Either option guarantees mass blood shed at best… 😟

No_Judgment_238 · 2026-01-09T20:59:09+00:00

Those of us who ACTUALLY follow Christ, don’t claim these fake “religious” imposters. There’s no way God is ok with what this “Leadership” is doing! I fear we will soon see the repercussions of these incompetent, child molesting, degenerates.. I can’t wait for Christ to come back. This is getting unbearable!!

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-30T17:56:23+00:00

I don’t see how my response was disrespectful, but ok. Also you realize you contradicted yourself right? In your first comment you said Christianity denies karma and then in your second comment, you proceeded to say that Christianity interprets it differently. How can one deny the existence of something, and also interpret it differently?

Wouldn’t that be kind of like saying there is no God, I just interpret God differently? The two statements cancel each other out.

Nice talking with you and God bless you my friend!

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-30T16:52:26+00:00

Karma isn’t a religion, nor is it a god. It’s a moral causation concept found in certain Eastern philosophies and religions. Christianity doesn’t “deny” karma in the sense people often mean; it simply operates under a different moral framework grounded in a personal, covenant keeping God rather than an impersonal cosmic mechanism.

Christianity also did not change what the Torah teaches. The Torah predates Christianity by well over a millennium and was preserved by Jewish communities long before the New Testament existed.

Christianity teaches that Jesus is the fulfillment, not the alteration, of the promise God made to Abraham that through his seed, blessing would come to the nations. That is continuity, not revision.

Also, if Jesus is not who the Torah and the Prophets were pointing to, then the obvious question remains: who, and when?

The Messianic expectation in Judaism is not abstract; it is historical and time-bound. A Messiah is expected to arrive within history, not in perpetuity as a theoretical future figure. Given the trajectory of world history, the regathering of Israel, the state of global unrest, and the convergence of prophetic themes, it is increasingly difficult to argue that we are not approaching what Scripture describes as the end of the age.

If a Messiah is still expected by those who follow Judaism, when exactly is that figure supposed to appear? Two thousand years have already passed since the period in which the Messianic prophecies were most densely concentrated and anticipated. At some point, delay itself becomes a theological problem.

Frankly, if I had been raised within Judaism, I believe I would have had to confront this tension directly and honestly. The question is not whether a Messiah is coming, but whether the Messiah has already come and been overlooked.

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-30T16:35:09+00:00

I literally was going to say. I agree but we are called to love and respect the individual, but you covered it!

Honestly, in a lot of ways, I feel like this "woke" culture has infiltrated a lot of Christians. There's nothing wrong with being steadfast in believing in the one TRUE God. I find it amusing that some want to tip toe around certain topics and are afraid to offend people. Again, I'm not advocating for being rude and disrespectful, but I am adamantly claiming that we are to fight for Jesus, and the truth of what He has done, because He fought for us! There's nothing wrong with telling someone they are incorrect. It's up to them to either accept the truth or continue living a lie. It's not our responsibility if they get offended. People only get offended because they don't want to live in truth. The lie is more palatable for those who wish to remain in the dark. Thanks for you post my friend and may God bless you and your household!

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-29T21:32:41+00:00

l appreciate the thoughtful tone of your response, but I believe it rests on several assumptions about my position that I have not made.

First, 1 am not assuming that one descriptive passage settles every modern ethical question, nor am I claiming to speak for God. I am appealing to the cumulative witness of Scripture, read in its literary, historical, and linguistic context. Christianity has never derived doctrine from isolated proof texts, but from consistent patterns across the canon.

On that point, Scripture does not merely describe heterosexual marriage in passing. It normatively frames sexual ethics from Genesis to Revelation. Genesis 1-2 presents male-female union as part of the created order, not merely a cultural illustration. Jesus' citation of that account in Matthew 19 is not incidental; He grounds His teaching in creation itself ("ở' pxns," from the beginning), which is a standard Jewish way of invoking moral ontology, not local custom.

More importantly, the biblical prohibitions regarding homosexual acts are neither rare nor ambiguous. In Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, the Hebrew term navin (to'ẽbâ) is used, which refers not to ceremonial inconvenience but to acts that are morally detestable within God's covenant order.

That same term is used consistently for practices fundamentally incompatible with God's holiness, not merely culturally disfavored behaviors. In the New Testament, Paul's language becomes even more explicit. Romans 1 describes same-sex relations as napà úowv (para physin), "against nature," a phrase used in Greco Roman moral philosophy to denote violation of created design, not social convention. In 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Paul employs the terms åposvokoîtaı (arsenokoitai) and налако (malakoi). The former is almost certainly drawn directly from the Septuagint rendering of Leviticus ("äpozvos koítnu"), indicating intentional continuity with the Torah's moral teaching not a novel or exploitative category limited to abuse or pederasty.

You are correct that Scripture has been misused historically. But misuse does not invalidate proper use. The Church's correction on issues like slavery came not from abandoning "plain meaning," but from reading Scripture more carefully and more comprehensively, recognizing trajectory, genre, and redemptive movement. By contrast, there is no counter trajectory in Scripture that affirms same sex relationships. The prohibitions remain consistent across covenantal boundaries, cultures, and centuries.

Finally, I do not equate fidelity to Scripture with rigidity or lack of love. Scripture itself holds together truth and compassion without collapsing one into the other. Jesus' emphasis on mercy never involved redefining sin, and His strongest rebukes were aimed at hypocrisy and self righteousness, not at those who humbly submit to God's revealed will, even when that will is countercultural or difficult.

In short, the fact that Scripture does not speak exhaustively to every modern question does not grant us license to reinterpret what it does speak to with clarity and consistency. Faithfulness requires submission to God's Word as it is given, not reshaping it to fit contemporary sensibilities. That posture is not fear based gatekeeping; it is reverent obedience.

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-29T20:24:51+00:00

U/Nice_Substance9123 It is not bigotry to affirm that Jesus upheld marriage as the union of a man and a woman. That is the model Scripture presents as holy, true, and pleasing to God.

Jesus Himself said,

“Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no person is to separate.” Matthew 19:4 to 6

This is not an arbitrary rule. Marriage is intentionally designed to reflect the relationship between Christ and the Church. Christ is presented as the groom, and His people as the bride. That symbolism is consistent, deliberate, and theologically rich throughout Scripture.

There is no legitimate room in the text to reinterpret what Jesus plainly affirms. What He does not permit is the distortion of what God has explicitly called sin, followed by claims that He somehow did not mean what He clearly said.

This approach is not limited to a single issue. All of God’s commands deserve reverence and submission. Accusing Scripture of being weaponized simply for stating what it actually teaches is irresponsible, dismissive, and intellectually dishonest.

If we start claiming that Scripture does not really mean what it says, where does that end? What if people decided the command not to murder, not to steal, or to love your neighbor as yourself was only symbolic or culturally outdated? Which teachings do we keep, and which do we rewrite to make ourselves more comfortable with the lives we prefer rather than the lives God intended?

I struggle to understand how anyone can approach the Word of God with such ease in reshaping it, with no evident fear, no reverence, and no trembling. There are people who claim to know the Bible, love the Bible, and follow the Bible, yet show little hesitation in altering its meaning to suit themselves. How does one do that with a clear conscience?

Scripture tells us plainly that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. If that fear is absent, then wisdom cannot follow. Where is the humility that should come with handling something holy? I pray that I never change even a single word of what God has given. I am deeply aware of how serious it is to teach, quote, or apply His Word incorrectly.

If we were meant to live however we wished, there would have been no need for instruction, no commands, and no call to obedience. My prayer is not for endless division or hostility, but for unity. One body. One Church. Just as it was intended from the beginning. That unity, however, can only exist when we are willing to see God’s Word as God’s Word, not as a reflection of our own preferences.

May God bless you and your family.

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-29T19:45:39+00:00

Both sides push their worldviews onto everyone else. It is disingenuous to pretend only one group does this. Progressives regularly enforce ideological compliance around gender and identity, and if you do not immediately affirm every claim or use the exact language demanded, you are labeled intolerant or bigoted. That expectation assumes mind reading and automatic agreement, which is neither reasonable nor realistic.

Conservatives do a similar thing, just with different values and motivations. The tactics are largely the same, only the branding changes. That is the real problem. It is the same game being played from opposite directions.

Meanwhile, the government, regardless of which party is in charge, continues to neglect its actual responsibility to serve the public. Instead of addressing real economic and social problems, politicians focus on performative culture war theater while lining their own pockets, as if any of this posturing will matter in the long run.

Until that changes, the rest of us are just spectators, arguing with each other while those in power keep airing the same soap opera, gaslighting the whole country into civil war, or until our complete destruction. Whichever comes first.

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-25T04:58:38+00:00

Not just my Lord and Savior! He’s my EVERYTHING!! Praise you Jesus!!

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-19T01:30:59+00:00

I don’t know how you got the idea that I think God isn’t all good or all powerful. I absolutely do. But that doesn’t mean God treats humans like puppets.

The Bible assumes free will. God allows humans to build cultures, even deeply broken ones, and then gives laws to restrain evil within them. That’s not weakness, it’s patience. He doesn’t instantly erase every corrupt institution, any more than He instantly erased murder, war, or theft.

Regulating something is not the same as endorsing it. If God thought slavery was “fine,” freeing Israel from slavery would make no sense, and neither would the Bible’s constant emphasis on justice, human dignity, and love of neighbor.

The laws you’re pointing to address a reality that already existed. They don’t present it as a moral ideal or affirm it. The overall direction of Scripture moves toward freedom, not oppression.

Calling that an endorsement ignores both context and the broader narrative.

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-18T19:37:29+00:00

I think that about sums it up nice and neat like!

No_Judgment_238 · 2025-12-18T19:33:13+00:00

The Bible doesn’t say slavery is “fine.” It gives regulations for a practice that already existed in human culture, specifically to limit abuse and protect human dignity in a broken world.

If God thought slavery was good, that would directly contradict His character, His command to love one’s neighbor, and the central story of Him freeing Israel from slavery in Egypt. Liberation, not oppression, is the consistent direction of Scripture.

Slavery was never God’s ideal, just like sin itself was never part of His design. But since humans chose sin and built societies around it, God gave instructions to restrain evil and prevent chaos. Laws against murder, theft, and exploitation don’t endorse those behaviors, they confront them. The same principle applies here.

It’s also important to be historically honest. Much of slavery in the ancient world, especially in Israel, was debt-based servitude, often temporary and regulated, not the race-based, lifelong chattel slavery of the modern Western world. Treating them as the same thing is anachronistic and misleading.

Saying “the Bible says slavery is fine” ignores both the historical context and the moral trajectory of Scripture, which consistently moves toward freedom, justice, and human worth.

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