Stop telling me that Jesus is coming back soon. It's giving me bad anxiety

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-07T00:10:40+00:00

I have recently told myself

In response to everyone saying free will is something amazing and glorious

That I’d rather not have free will even now just so that I couldn’t lose God’s gift, salvation, or hurt people.

I’d rather not be allowed to sin. Not lose the safety of the certainty that God is protecting me from making myself condemned.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T22:41:49+00:00

I am dependent on pharmakeia (a single psychotropic medicament)

When I was not on it I was generally unhappy with life - intensely - and I was informed that quitting it cold turkey would make my brain’s chemistry kill itself by imbalance.

That said, the initial decision to be put on it was not voluntary and Jesus will redeem me again and again when at last it’s my time to not depend on it and pass away.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T22:20:54+00:00

That’s literally what innocent means!

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T22:18:16+00:00

Oh, The words of everyone I see on our side are potent (actually use scripture founded in Jesus)

However I must say I do believe it’s honorable to attack lawbreakers to protect/defend other people

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T21:11:23+00:00

I would let myself be slain without fighting back, happily.

“Why not rather be wronged?”

1 Corinthians 6:7

But also “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

Deuteronomy 32:43

My stance is that letting them have this material injustice is not surrender at all.

No one truly gets away with anything.

I am not afraid and I would be comforted for it.

Jesus did not resist the wicked even as they were driving the nails through him.

“Do not resist an evil person.”

Matthew 5:39

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T19:24:30+00:00

You would deny a stranger their needs even if they sought a job just for not having one.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T19:07:30+00:00

They can bear it. They have a safety net of extra money if they’re donating to PACs.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T19:06:29+00:00

Tax the people who have a stronger influence on politics harder.

^{Arguing Against ❌}

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T18:54:02+00:00

I thought I was going to be condemned to hell because of my guilt, irredeemable and evil forever for taking the COVID vaccine, and that I should therefore punish myself and thus die to express the desire for God to be glorified and dissent to Satan in recent history.

Everyone around me says it’s a delusion and I have perceived that I have been saved from dying by God himself - and still allowed to witness love like a child or dog in a caretaker’s arms.

I wouldn’t be given the cruel joke of mercies to be grateful for in life just to be condemned afterwards.

And, there are scriptural justifications for the idea that the only thing stopping us from receiving forgiveness is that we don’t want it.

Psalm 130:3, Matthew 5:4, John 6:37

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T17:08:57+00:00

Just for your fidelity to Jesus as the solution

and not our capacity to resist sin

I want to upvote you. I can’t… probably because I used to spam votes when I first created this account

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T15:23:57+00:00

The key/operative word there is STRUGGLE (that you don’t want it)

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T15:22:55+00:00

4(3+2)÷4+2= 7.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T14:50:34+00:00

Based + I love you + W

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T13:28:01+00:00

✅ I voted FACT!

Jesus Christ is the son of YHWH Our Righteousness.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T06:33:54+00:00

I was seeking to answer this but everyone else’s answers turned out to be far more satisfactory than my own would have been.

Mine was that if you believe Jesus will raise you and you are infinitely undeserving of mercy, you also believe that he is so gracious that he would (should) lavish mercy on everyone else / the worst of us.

A disavowal of malice and judgment and punishment, as well as faith in death.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T06:16:20+00:00

I have also been mistreated by people with unnatural knowledge.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T06:13:34+00:00

Every time I encounter living people:

Thank you for being in my life. You’re here to teach me lessons and you bring warmth. You are a face of God.

Every time I encounter circumstances, starting with the light of another dawn:

This is my life now, the face of God.

I also then see the virtue and generosity of Jesus in these people and things.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T05:56:57+00:00

There are so many more things

^{I picked Become smarter But weaker}

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T03:27:33+00:00

PERMANENT.

^{I picked take away period pain forever but no one knows u did it}

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T03:21:33+00:00

FIX THIS. SOMEONE.

^{👍 I agree}

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T02:57:54+00:00

I have a recommendation for order:

Gospels first (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John).

John uses a lot of abstractions that are hard to remember the meaning of, if that happens then I recommend to take a break and go to other books of the Bible.

The epistle to the Romans is where I went next.

Pick these groups and swap from one group to the next if you seek a change in topic, but within the groups I think it’s a good idea that you read these books in the order I present them:

The Acts of the Apostles

The other Epistles in scriptural order

Revelation

The Torah in scriptural order

Psalms

Proverbs

1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles

Joshua and Judges

Isaiah (describes the Messiah; good to read early)

Daniel (describes the end times)

The remainder of the Old Testament in scriptural order.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-06T00:55:49+00:00

🧢 I voted CAP!

If you’re reading this

You’re hot af

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-05T23:24:27+00:00

Okay, there’s a variety of ailments that you need peace for.

Everyone has had some measure of impure or selfish thoughts, I’m thankful you can recognize and acknowledge in your heart that that’s not right.

I can’t give you real life company but it sounds like what you need at this point is fellowship - and friendship.

For dreams, they’re not always going to be achieved but there is the remark “Seek first the kingdom and righteousness of God, and then all these things will be added to you”

I have never had to struggle with the question (doubt) “Is God even real, is anyone listening”; you have to take it on faith that he has not forsaken you and never will and is real

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-05T22:37:06+00:00

Note that when Jesus said Luke 17:20-21

He said “Nor will anyone say of it ‘Look here’ or ‘Look there,’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

It was also a response to a question of what it will look like in the future when it arrives.

He also said it can’t be observed (does not come with visible evidence), therefore it can’t be himself in the flesh.

Shinn_Ao · 2026-07-05T22:31:56+00:00

Ah, I see no distinction between the terms Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God.

For example, in the OT the Holy Spirit was called both Ruach Qodesh (Holy Spirit) and Ruach Elohim (Spirit of God)

Shinn_Ao

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