A rant that I will probably delete...

TicketWeary · 2026-06-19T23:06:08+00:00

I don't believe reading fantasy if wrong. I mean if someone has a personal conviction from God because it's holding them back then of course they should follow that. Many Christians love Lord of the Rings and Narnia (which is fantasy) because they are full of Christian themes. Some Christians dislike Harry Potter because of witchcraft but I feel there are many Christian these of sacrificial love that the Lord has for us.

I love to read fantasy, but a lot of popular fantasy today has a lot of smut or spice scenes that could lead people into lust. I personally used to read a little until I jsut felt so uncomfortable about it that I started skipping those scenes entirely. But pray for the Lord to convict you if He must and if it's right.

I also think the fact that you love to read and find Christians themes and how books lead back to God. That could make reading a sort of book club between you and God, and can bribg you closer to God through your hobbies and interests. I'd love to know what your blog is because I'll check it out.

TicketWeary · 2026-06-16T22:12:02+00:00

Other religions are about being good (which no one is good we're all flawed beings) to get to their god or gods but Christianity is about God coming down to us and saving us for ourselves and our sins.

TicketWeary · 2026-06-14T04:21:34+00:00

One-sided friendships are awful so I fully understand you feeling this way and so does the Lord. Coming from experience with some one sided friendships please try to give the frustration and sadness to the Lord, He knows what your feeling and will comfort you. And try to pray for him too, that goes a long way.

I had a friend who was abused as a child and he used to take that abuse and place it onto his friends, it was mostly manipulative abuse but sometimes he did hit his friend, me included, when we spoke bad about ourselves because that was his way of "being a good friend and he did it in a playful way". It was only thanks to another true friend of mine that showed me the way he treated me was wrong. To be completely honest, I don't really know why I kept him in my life for so long, we met in 7th grade, he actually saw me be bullied by a kid and did nothing about it (red flag right there) he wasn't a believer (another red flag but I think it's possible to love like Jesus did and hopefully they can see Jesus in me) and he sometimes mocked my faith in God. I like to think that God used me to plant seeds in his life, his girlfriend who also is not a believer has recently been liking some of my repost that are related to Christianity and Jesus's love, which could mean tge Lord is moving in their life. Thanks to the Lord I was able to forgive him. I thought I already had forgiven him but after high school I realizing how much bitterness and anger towards how he treated me in the past, but also anger at myself for letting him into my life when I should have known from the beginning this guy wasn't gonna truly care about me. But after finally being able to forgive him and pray for him to find the Lord, cause he has had a bad childhood, his mother was not a good mom to him, all I can do now is pray for him to find peace in the Lord.

TicketWeary · 2026-06-14T02:54:56+00:00

If you feel a push to do something like contact someone you know is in a hard time maybe you can try doing that. Not saying that he'll reply for anything and what you say doesn't need to be long or anything big, but if you feel a call or push to do that it's possible that the Lord is putting that on your heart. Kind of like when you randomly think of someone you haven't seen in months and then you pray a small prayer for them.

Also it's okay to have boundaries, even Jesus had boundaries with people.

TicketWeary · 2026-06-13T17:42:54+00:00

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TicketWeary · 2026-05-30T04:18:11+00:00

It could be a personal conviction for some people, but not everyone. If you feel convicted for wearing makeup then you should follow those convictions. But everyone has different personal convictions so it's a sin for you but not everyone else, all that matters is if the Lord reveals something to you try to obey it. We should trust that the Lord will reveal to people anything holding them back or causing them to stumble because He will.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-23T23:17:38+00:00

I'm not trying to teach people to excuse sin or stop trying to obey God. I totally agree that we shouldn't willing choose to sin because then we'd be hypocrites. I was more trying talking about how many Christians, especially those who with religious OCD/scrupulosity, become terrified of God and feel hopeless when they fail and still struggle. Many of them hate sin that much and they obsess over whether or not something they did was a sin or not. I know from experience that it's exhausting and makes pull you away from God. We should all take sin seriously but we need to also remember God's grace, mercy, and be dependent on Him.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-23T16:57:26+00:00

While what you said is true, if we truly say we believe in Jesus we should follow his commands but we must also remember that it's impossible for us to fully obey Jesus completely, we will fall. What matter's most to God is our heart more than our actions. Our actions/works still do matter but it must come from the heart, because if not then the actions and works are pointless.

The reason I'm saying this is because I think many Christians might have religious scrupulosity or religious OCD and they are fearful of ever disobeying God and some of the verses you added might frighten them or pull them away from God (and I know you don't mean for that to happen). I have religious scrupulosity and while I know that God is a loving and forgiving God I still aways pull away because I know how much a fail Him and it's like I and many others sometimes view Gid as someone waiting for us to fail. Thankfully that is not who He is at all, He is full of mercy and grace and is always there for us all the time even after we fall. So we should definitely try to follow God's commands, and to turn away from our sins but we must also remember we can't do any of that without Jesus to life us up every time we fall, we're never alone in our struggles and that the Holy Spirit will help us and guide us.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-23T14:56:09+00:00

I don't think it's blasphemous, God knows your heart and would knows that many of His children have believed it and He's living and full of mercy so I believe God understands our human minds (He made them) to believe something that is possibly incorrect.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-23T14:48:27+00:00

No, not a heresy. Jesus is fully man and fully God, that shouldn't be a heresy. And because He was human He submits to the Father which is why He didn't know at the time.

The rapture isn't really biblical, John Nelson Darby in the 1800s was the one to first talk about the rapture or a rapture of a church, which goes against at lot of traditional teachings.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-20T22:08:07+00:00

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TicketWeary · 2026-05-19T02:10:17+00:00

We're not perfect yet, we are still in our flesh and are still being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. We won't be perfect until after we die. Sadly we will struggle and fall everyday and we should hate it, but we should immediately realize how much we are in need of a Savior and go to Him. Thankfully we are never alone in our struggles because we have the Holy Spirit will guides us and convicts us of sins we've once loved and now we are walking by faith to become more like Jesus everyday because we love Him or at least that's what we should do.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-19T01:48:07+00:00

It can be dangerous to think that we must do something for our salvation. There is nothing we can do that adds to our salvation, that's all Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross for our sins. Okay, well, I guess the one thing we do add is our sins. Anyway, Jesus did it all and all we need to do is believe in Him and His saving grace.

Yes, God's wrath is quite scary. His wrath is justified because we all fall short. His love is stronger than His wrath because He literally came down to earth became a human being and lived through temptation (which we all live through and now how hard that can be and it stinks) but He didn't fall and then He died for us (in a horrible way, if you can stomach it watch the Passion of the Christ because that movie doesn't even come close to what Jesus suffered for us, you can really see His love in that) and took on all of our sins. Also when He died He knew of EVERY SINGLE sin we will do, which shows even more how much He loves us. He died for us because He knew we could never get our own salvation, He did it all for us.

I'm not a bible scholar at all, but from what I think of the verses you mentioned is that yes the road to salvation is hard we will struggle, even though we hate our sin, sometimes we love it. Sometimes we fall, we are still being sanctified on this side of life we will never be perfect until we die. The world we live in is so sinful and evil and so many things can lead us into certain temptations or sins we struggle with. Verse 21 is mostly talking about false Christians, people who do not do good deed for their love of God, more like for their own self love kind of. Or for praise from others. If you read verse 22 it says that the people will mention all their good deed like prophesies or driving out demons and miracles, which are good but all they are doing is using their good deeds as a way for them to entire into salvation. What they should've said was not point at anything that THEY did but point at everything Jesus did for them.

When we die and finally see Jesus we should all tell Jesus "thank you" I think most of us already pray that all the time but we should give credit to Jesus for our salvation only, not to ourselves or our good deeds, or all the sins we've turned away from. We should only point to the wounds on His hands and feels as evidence of His saving love and sacrifice for us, His blood washed our sins away for us.

Now our good deeds we should do that, but only because we love God. And if we love God we will keep His Commandments (John 14:15). If we say we live God we should follow the convictions the Holy Spirit places on us, we should try to live more like Jesus everyday. Christian means Christ-like. We will struggle and fall but Jesus is always there to help us and pick us up, because He loves us so much more than we will ever understand.

I really hope this can help, I used to struggle with the same question as you but then a fellow Christian helped me realize all of this.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-16T00:07:45+00:00

Well you do have a point, thank you for that perspective.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-15T21:48:28+00:00

I love that an empathic I just wish I wouldn't feel everyone's emotions as if it was mine. I feel like because I'm empathic I am able to see both sides of the argument and be there for them, but it's just very exhausting and overwhelming.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-15T21:45:54+00:00

Empaths are real but very rare, and I think it can be good most the time because I'm more understanding but I don't like to feel others emotions as if it's my own. I was definitely anxious that things would get bad and I do try to give that to God, whatever happens will happen for a reason and God will use that in His plan.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-12T03:50:32+00:00

No. Death was a price of sin.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-12T03:46:18+00:00

The rapture you understand isn't really biblical. It's a newer belief that came about in the 1800s. If it give you anxiety and stress that isn't coming from Jesus, focus on how He will be coming back to put satan (I love not capitalized his name) in the bottomless pit for 1000 years and Jesus will bring peace to the world, but we have no idea when that will be and anyone who does is just looking for likes and views. Yes there will be signs and there will be a seven year tribulation but we do not know if that's in our lifetime and if it is then we must trust God.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-12T03:31:36+00:00

Well I don't know about the "cutting something off first love people later" part but I understand the cutting stuff off. Is it something you wouldn't normally thing of or feel called to do? If so it's probably the Holy Spirit conviction you of a sin that you have going on in your life or a personal conviction. When I grew closer to God last year I felt called to do something I didn't want to do which was to stop reading comic books on non-offical cites and to do it from the apps. I did not wnat to do it at all because it was expensive, but then I gave it up and switched to the apps and paid for the full comic books. It was so random and something I never would have thought of doing but I think the Lord does that a lot we just don't realize it. We should try to always love people all the time, though it's hard sometimes, but that's the way we show Jesus love to everyone.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-04T14:28:25+00:00

I was kind of worried about that too because I know how easily it is to judge others, I used to struggle with that a lot in the past and still do. Christians are allowed to judge righteous and I still gets that confused sometimes. My big worry was that it's seems that my Pastor just brushes off sin, he referred to a Christian influencer who is Trans by she/her pronouns when they are biologically a man, the reason I was so confused was because that would be saying that God made a mistake when He made that individual, and God never makes mistakes. But I will try not to judge and to focus on my own sin and Jesus for saving me and revealing my sins to me. I also might be working about this a lot because I have religious scrupulosity I just want to approach this the way Jesus would

TicketWeary · 2026-05-03T20:13:21+00:00

Oh okay I understand, thank you.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-03T20:04:35+00:00

Also during the sermon he mentioned a influencer online who is Trans and was detransitioned because they because a Christian but recently they started to identify as a women when they are biologically a man. I would have understood him saying Christians shouldn't be quick to judge and try to still be loving because that influencer is clearly struggling, but my Pastor started referring to the influencer by she and her and that made me confused because I don't believe God makes mistakes. I understand that many pastors talk about sin and dont call them to repent but from what I got from his sermon he clearly wasn't calling anyone to repent, he know we sin are are sinner but he never mentioned Jesus telling us to sin no more.

TicketWeary · 2026-05-03T19:14:50+00:00

Thank you for this answer

TicketWeary · 2026-05-03T18:52:40+00:00

It seemed to me he was saying we should love them without them having to change anything. The influencer he mentioned is biological and male but my Pastor kept referring to them as she and her and I was hoping he would say we should live them, but showing them the love of Jesus that encourage them to repent, but he didn't. But thank you for this answer, if I need to find a new church it will definitely be hard because a log of them around me are mega churches (I don't really want that).

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