Bible Discussion Thread

 
  • Anonymous - 1 year ago
    I have given up on believing in GOD's goodness, or love, etc. I honestly, and I mean NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE with this, but I hate GOD, because He always helps, blesses, prospers the exceedingly wicked in wrongdoing, even covers up and hides their wrongdoing, while He ignores the plight of their innocent victims-to an extent. I hate GOD, because He creates humans, and then moves on from the ones He doesn't care to will a good life for. I hate GOD, because, in that He COULD help those who seek/sought to make the world a better place, instead, He just sits in heaven in comfort and convenience and ignores the what is best for the powerless, the abused, in order to continue the prosperity of those who cause people to fail (either in life, or through suicide, because He careth not).

    I don't mean to disrespect Him-I hate Him. I hate His ways. I hate His apathy. I hate how He is..in DEED...the protector, the promoter, the helper, the blesser, and the power-bestower of those..exceedingly wicked. I hate how He blesses the prosperity of EVERYTHING that is messed up, that is, but thwarts and helps Satan, and Satan's kids to destroy people, and His earth after and before each and everytime He has destroyed the earth!

    He created me to be abused-He intended a bad life for me, worse for others, and that's that! You then pray for His help..maybe He'll help, maybe He will sit in heaven and not care.

    You can pray for me-I know this makes me a GOD hater. I do not want to burn in Hell for eternity, but I hate Him. I want to go to heaven-instead of Hell, and more earthly abuse-but how can I enter into His holy house and kingdom, when I hate Him? HIS will is HIS choice, and He CHOOSES to not CEASE from prospering WICKEDNESS AGAINST innocents & those who incurred not the wickedness done unto them! I know the greatest commandment is to love Him with all that is in me, but how can I love someone who helps those who abuse ME, but isn't interested in helping me NOT be abused?
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Anonymous, I just heard a song and it reminded me of you so I wanted to share it with you. It's by Rascal Flatts (tho they support thing not of the bible, the song is great), it's call "I will stand by you." If you don't or can't listen to music search the following scriptures: were God says; I will stand by you- Ephesians 6:11, He will dry your eyes- Rev 21:4, I will fight your fight- Exodus 14:14 & I will hold you tight & won't let go- Deuteronomy 31:6 .Prayers to you again, and always!
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Hello Anonymous, top of the morning to ya (or what ever time yur readin). I pray this day finds you in better spirits & the strength to give God another, well deserving, chance. We have all been in your position before, promise. Abuse, lies, deaths, more unnecessary lies & abuse that we can't deal with yet can do our best to stop allowing it happen with your strength in Christ. We are here for each other and the good thing about it is you can say whatever you want. You more so then us because your Anonymous.! :) Hugs, prayers & Friendship
  • Cindy - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Dear Anonymous, we are not robots. God gave each of us free will to do good or to do bad. Today there are more people on earth than ever before. Strides in communication have made us a world city. There are more ways to do good and to work evil, and the Devil is a lion roaring among us seeking whom he can devour because he knows his time is short. Never fear, and have faith, for Jesus proclaimed his victory over the world and He does not lie, Titus 1:2 "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"

    Do your part in the good. God bless you!
  • TheLORDredeeMEd - In Reply - 1 year ago
    GOD bless and keep both you and yours, this CHRISTMAS DAY, and in! Thank you for your beautiful and supportive answers in love beloved!
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    short but oh so sweet, Amen.! not everyone rambles like me..lol
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    I am very sorry for the things that you have suffered at the hands of others . I have had a similar experience and know others also . Think about all the things that you know because of your experiences . All experiences teach us things . You know things that many others don't . Knowledge isn't always a good thing in itself , but you can use your knowledge for good even if the way in which you gained that knowledge was very distressing to you . God has taught you these things for a reason . The person that you are right now is only because of your experiences and the knowledge that you have gained from them . This might not be much comfort to you and I'm sorry if that's the case . My abuse was very bad as a child . It lessened in my twenties when two things happened , I realised that none of it was my fault and I picked up a Bible . I've never looked back since . The most important thing that you can do is also one of the hardest things to do but here it is : stop looking back . Look forward . Take what you've learned , about yourself and others , and use it to your advantage and maybe even for the good of others . You can do it . With God's help , you can do anything . Trust Him . He has been with you all your life and He , yes HE , has brought you through it and to this place of safety that you are in now . Trust Him and let Him in . May God grant you peace , health and happiness .
  • TheLORDredeeMEd - In Reply - 1 year ago
    GOD BLESS and Keep you! You are BEAUTIFUL, Brother os Sister Sammi! Your words reveal that!!!! I mean thus! You are right in many things, one being that, yes, I have improved (hard to see, though, through the anger at times. See, this is a current thing, but your words are 100% relevant, b/c as soon as something 's been done, it is in the past! I doubt you'll see this, but if you or any other brother or sister sees it, please pray, b/c it is harder to take some wickednesses, whereas more temperance has been brought, b/c abusers train you to not ladh out at yhem ..then...you have those that will not leave you be...until you do! When I type, is typically, after or during a abuse session.

    I am sorry for what wickedness you have been made to endure!!!!! My words are weak, but that is some of the anger...anger that abuse--children are aa the slaves back during America's Transatlantic Slave trade, as the Jews in Nazi Germany, and as the Christian and other non-Catholics during the Inquisition (which took an unprecedented far greater number in kives than the Holocaust, and is not spoken of. I guess b/c it portrays Christians as victims, but it vexes me, b/c Christians are blamed for it, by those who lie either in ignorance or in full knowledge of what they are doing.
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank you for your reply to me . My abuse started very young so I wasn't actually aware that it was abuse for a very long time . At first I thought it was normal , then that changed into me thinking that it was my own fault , somehow I deserved it . It was only as I crept out of my shell and witnessed how normal people lived and treated each other that I started to realise that it wasn't anything to do with me . My abusers would abuse anyone if they thought they could and get away with it , anyone vulnerable would do . It just happened to be me . God has strengthened me enormously . I know that only He has preserved me and provided for me all my life . Nothing in this life can hurt me for very long now . As long as I know that God is with me , that's all I need to know . I pray that God will preserve and protect you , physically mentally emotionally and spiritually . Never give up , don't let those wicked weak souls destroy you . God will fight for you . Talk to Him always .
  • TheLORDredeeMEd - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank you for replying back to me as well! Your words spoke life into me, encouragement, and strength. Iron sharpens iron! I had only signed in, because someone that I had suspected had followed me here, or wasn't a true Christian, had called me a fool elsewhere...via scripture, after insulting the counsel provided by me (some of it), and then...for reasons unknown, Ms Donna Grace THEN felt the need to "steal..." part of my "fool's" counsel, and state it again...as if she had just come up with it...? As if my "fool's" words... weren't still sitting there...with said same "foolish" counsel?

    As I have said before, not all who done the cross are Christ's! Irony, being, He came not to cause peace, nor strife, but division. In the end, the sons of men, will see who IS...with Him...and with isn't. I agree with Ms. Donna Grace's assessment of me being a fool, but my counsel was GOoD...why else would she them take it, repeat it and pass it off as hers if it weren't? Christ didn't like nasty hypocrisy anymore than me! Especially when wolves... masquerade as HIS SHEEP! Causing the onlookers...to mistakenly believe, that the slovenly behavior...is representative of HE! I take my "L's " and in my life--there are MANY! But to sully the brethren, to the begetting of unearned disdain--such infamy will I NOT stand for, sit down for, or continue to take! The world NEEDS Christ! And of a truth and of a FACT: There are some in Satan's coffers, that would to sully and dissuade from that! By spurious & cloaked, serpentine acts, committed NOT by the brethren, but by the tares near them! Furthermore, in secret, they swarm! Dishonorable bees, seemingly vomiters of sweet, sisters of vinegar, as I get the label of the black sheep or bandless, Twisted Sister!

    My strength or focus is foolish to fade-

    By those-

    Currently hopeless,

    Whose right-wiseness... they're choosing to feign!

    I cannot control the narrative,

    But Christ's sheep know both His word AND His name!
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    I am glad you are on here now and I hope that you will stay with us . Christ is at the door and he wants his sheep to grow together , so I hope you will feel comfortable amongst us and continue to bless us with your posts . We are here to encourage and strengthen each other , please stay and keep us company on our walk towards His Kingdom .
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    So true..Amen.!
  • Adam - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Dear Anonymous,

    I hope you return to read the responses you've received.

    You sound angry with your perception of God. But your perception of God is not my perception of God and all of us might be wrong.

    It sounds like you're angry with injustice in the world. I am too and hate it. But what's different in my view is you attribute that to God rather than to satan or man's free will. God could have made us all robots who are perfect and do exactly what He says and never sin and never harm each other, but we're not slaves or robots. If we were, people would instead be complaining about that. But God loved us enough to give us freewill. And with that responsibility each can choose good or evil. Many choose evil. That isn't God's fault. God made a perfect place then man sinned and ruined it, so now we have this sinful hostile world full of trials. But its extremely temporary. We assume our everything here is all that matters, but it isn't, its a tiny 2 second preview to the eternal main picture. We get all worked up about the injustices in those 2 seconds, but right after that everything will be made fair. Justice will be served. All will be judged. No one is actually getting by with anything. So in this short temporary life it seems like evil wins and good suffers, but nope, this is just a tiny trial and when over justice for everything will occur. I trust God for this. The Bible says not to get revenge on anyone for anything, but to leave it to God.

    Basically, I think you're only hating an idea of God and I don't think that idea is what God is really like.

    It's annoying that we all face death, hardship, disease, tragedy, on and on, but this should not be a surprise to anyone. God used people in the Bible like Paul who had way more problems then what I face, for example. I've never been in prison or had people try to kill me or be shipwrecked or a fraction of that stuff, praise the Lord. But we also shouldn't be comparing either, because I think we all have thorns in the flesh as challenges to handle. Not sure if you'll even read this, but God bless you.
  • TheLORDredeeMEd - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank you kindly for taking the time out to reply! I like your perspective with the knowledge of how small we are in the whole wheel-cogs of time. It's helpful and healthful to remember the bigger picture, that this is temporary, but eternity is FOREVER! Better mindset, b/c I think I get too temporal-focused.

    I don't know the thing to be: on the one hand, if we adults DON'T WORK in CHRIST's Father to change the things that need improvement now, then we aren't doing the things that begot us the blessings & freedoms that we have today. Like the Founding Fathers created the USA, one if the many great countries that many great things have come out of--opportunity being one of the greatest. Ir the Civil Rights Movement for Black Americans, or Women's Suffragists, fighting for women to have the right to vote in America, etc! Same with laws passed that help w/ safety --someone had to WORK to pass down what we now inherit freely, at times w/o thinking/being thankful! Today, though, the ones that would to make the world a worse off place seem to be working to bring about bad laws, etc, but the majority? don't seem to be equipped to work to counter it! When GOD was taken out of schools, and then taken out of everywhere else-even His own Holy Days or Holidays.... Now, the world has become a far worse place for those who need and DESERVE the MOST protection (children)! I see the enemy's cause is being advanced, but whether we're retreating or not, we're losing too much ground & RAPIDLY! We are to work to leave an inheritance for the children, yet we are impotent, or at least we believe so. I would we'd fight to get back to being great in obedience toward GOD, that He fight FOR those 2 seconds! People fought to end slavery...now people just accept it, or feel ill-equipped to stop it! I have had anger, b/c I have been opposed in becoming that a Moses or an Abraham or a King David-someone who can pray&save lives! I don't know y GOD allowed this, but pray He lose/free me
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Pretty much what I said yet I tend to use less sugar. Especially when we are out of time. We are so close to end times I can taste it. I'm excited & in that excitement I tend to forget to be soft. Yet, I really think the end is super near & in this this case, to much sugar will not help the medicine go down. I'm learning tho. Thanks Adam
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    There's no way anyone could not know that your intentions are good . Anyone who had read just a couple of your posts knows your kind heart . We all say things in different ways because we are individuals and allowed to be so . Think of the Apostles , they all had different personalities and those came through in the Gospel accounts . We are allowed to be different , we are not robots . Please stay true to yourself , we like you as you are !
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Just getting up and the tears you caused for giving me permission to be myself, tho I know I am, really touched me and helped clear my morning eyes :) cuz I've never been spoken to that way. Isn't it weird how just by hearing something makes a world of difference? Thanx Sammi & God bless always
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Oh I didn't want to cause tears ! Wanted to cause a smile ! It saddens me when people think that all Christians must fit into a certain mould and if they don't then they are ostracized or made to feel like an outsider . We are allowed to be different ! We are allowed to have different personalities and feelings and opinions , we are in fact , all of us , unique ! And that's how God made us . 1st Corinthians chapter 12 . We are all in the process of being moulded , by our Maker , into acceptable beings , not robots . God puts us in very specific individual places and circumstances in order to give us certain experiences and knowledge , that He knows we need to learn , in order for us to grow spiritually . Never fear Texsis , He has His eye on you every second of every day . You will come through your trials like gold , Daniel chapter 12 verse 10 .
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    God bless & be with each and everyone on this page & a special thanx to those that continue to pray for me. Have a Merry Christmas & an even happier New Year.! Thank God I got the fireplace going, its only 13 degrees outside, water froze & wind blowing somethin fierce. All praise be to God!
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    You break our hearts and humble us all on here . If we lived anywhere near you you would be loving with us . You can be sure that many prayers are said for you each day . May God continue to bless you every day .
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Doh ! Living not loving ! Sigh .
  • GiGi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Sammi, kind of the same thought really. "Living", "loving" with one another. We love through living out what God has given us first.
  • GiGi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Anonymous,

    Listen to what Texsis has to say. I would add, the Psalms of David tell how David would cry out to God in his misery, in danger, in depression, in repentance, in sickness, in sorrow, and all sorts of life circumstances that were negative to David. He knew he could tell God everything. Just as you spoke all those things from your heart on this forum, I would ask that you say those same things to God (He already knows your thoughts anyway). Pour out to him all of your disappointment in Him, all of your anger at Him, all of your unbelief in Him, and all of your pain and suffering from evil people to Him. He will hear you because He truly cares so much for you that He is willing for you to attack Him and His character in your suffering. He loves you so much that He desires to bring you through all of this to the other side, but only through Jesus and His sacrifice for you and your own sinfulness. Texsis is right, repent before God and ask Him for help to set your relationship with Him aright. Even though there are those who have abused you at length and it continues, God will deal with them and their sin. You must deal with your own sin. But of course, your sin did not cause your abuse, so don't own that in any way. It is on those who abuse you.

    But, we all have need of God's mercy and grace to be forgiven and freed from the condemnation of our own sin. Jesus is the way that brings these to us. He lived a perfect life without sin, suffered, died, and rose again from the dead for you, for me, and for the sins of the world. Any who put their trust in Him and His work will receive all that His work of salvation earned for us. You can pray to be strengthened in your faith, to grow in your trust in Jesus, to be secure in relying on Him, to be lifted up by His love, and to love Him, for God is Love.

    Anonymous, I only want to say what is good and helpful to you since I can tell you are in a lot of emotional, spiritual, and physical anguish. Prayers for you.
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Yes, another way I could have said it. Thanx GiGi your such a blessing. Forgive me and I shall try my best to use more sugar next time. I just don't want anyone to be left behind so I get over excited and beings I'm a naturalist & all about the truth, no matter what, I tend to upset the situation at times & I don't mean to. If your reading this Anonymous, forgive me & know I meant well.
  • Texsis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Anonymous, Don't give up on God's Love, Forgiveness & Grace! Bible says satan rules the world. So if Jesus is truly in your heart there's no room for doubts, fears & pains & its your heart that's not right. 1st, Either your still in sin, doubt or haven't forgiven everyone &/or merely not strong enough in His word to be were He needs you to be to do the will He has for you just yet! We must be strong & endure till the end to spend eternity in heaven. Our trials give us wisdom & strength so we can prosper. Even if that means we have nothing but JESUS. So, He is all we need. If we let satan weaken us that's on us, NOT God. The ONLY unforgivable sin is denying Christ! Satan controls all evil & wicked not God! We continue to pray BECAUSE satan doesn't care & yet we can not just sit there and allow others to abuse us. I bet you if you think about it long enough you'll think of a few times you made the choice to do this or that even though you felt pulled to do the opposite. That's on you not God. 85o/o of the world has gone thru abuse, including myself since I was 2. Yet we eventually let go and move on or satan will control us so stop blaming God. The fact that you asked for prayer proves you still have hope inside & want to do the right thing does it not?(BTW: that's God tuggin your heart). Its not Him you hate its the pain your going through & the evil satan has created making you to weak to fight & wants you to stop believing. STOP, don't let satan win, search your heart & listen! *HIS will is HIS choice, NO.. Its HIS will YOUR choice!* 2nd, we are to Pray for abusers & enemies! Either find a church home or online & read His word daily. search the truth not the worlds lies. KJV preferably. stay on this app and I shall help. Soon you will see that its us that gives up on Him that leads to hell. Been there, done that. He will NEVER forsake us. Finally, repent! He will change your heart in His time. Eternity/heaven is so close...BREATH.! I'm on UTube under Texsis too!
  • TheLORDredeeMEd - In Reply - 1 year ago
    I read your comment from a place of love, albeit, one thing you daid in it made me pause, as it seemed to be taken from a quote from one of my audio diaries, which are heard...by who ALL...I know not..but they have remained (ALL!) unpublished by me, but they are clearly, nevertheless, heard. That isn't always unwelcomed by me. What I am sick of is people playing games w/ me-the following me around online and off & the hindrance of my words (maybe no different than other Christ redeemed's words). I hope though, not to offend you, whether you are cyberstalking, or not! If you stalk me, you know my words come from my SOUL & are genuine, when spoken in love. You would also know that I want there to be GOoD that comes from this, b/c it is seemingly purposeless. You'd know that my anger stems from more than I speak. And that your words, w/ others, serve to make me feel things that I should not. And serve to diminish, GREATLY..from those, due ought! As there is always a diminishing: of me--some due integrity, and of others 100% accountability! As the "free will" of others, which removes my own, is somehow blamed on me--well, where was the free will, then, of those? They are not young, but adults rather ild, yet they okay games beneath those that are young. And, b/c what is dine to me is done in sectet, then, I am keft to look like trash! Yet, those who worked RELENTLESSLY-and at THAT-w/ OTHERS-to place me in life's garbage can, are mysteriously missing, when the accountability fingers go a pointing and a hissing. The victim of the cheating, is losing to those eho cheat! Yet, it took a while team or at least, a LOT of players, to get me to not score. Yet, I am trash for lising. Yet, those who keep a curiously "redacted" score, are still basking in some "victory!" If I go to Hell for eternity, & you do too, how is that better than us all going to Heaven forever?!?!?

    You fight to lose! I am losing now, but I speak to those regardless if th@ includes u, seek eternal loss!
  • GiGi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Well said, Texsis.
  • GiGi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Dear Anonymous, I am so very sorry for what you have and are going through. Thanks for sharing your heart so honestly. I have no advice to give you, but I will be praying for you. Keep on this board so we can keep in touch.
  • TheLORDredeeMEd - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank you Sir or Madam!!! Your prayers and love experienced through the screen have read meant more than my words of thanks can or have ever expressed!



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