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  • Birthday 04/20/1990

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  1. Does God actually condone slavery as opposed to condemning it for the inhumane act it really is? An Atheist hotline video had a guy struggling to find the right stance when faced with that question.
  2. "One side wants the other dead". But God, to the exent of his absolute will, will not allow Israel to be destroyed. The Arabs can try all they like, but in the end, they, and their Anti-Christ, are going to come down with a case of Epic Fail.
  3. I'm sorry about a post I made earlier a day ago. I feel blessed knowing that even in defeat, God's grace and unfailing promise is made perfect in our weakness.
  4. I have never truly been repentant. I just discovered this today. I haven't felt any kind of tears down my eyes, or, thinking, "God's watching me", or "I feel sick to my stomach" that kind of thing. I can't even feel scared anymore, and it doesn't cross my mind that the Devil is using this, along with many things in my life, to deceive me. I guess this is because I keep going back to the same sin over and over, the sin of sexual immorality. And it largely involves naked old men, white and usually European. Pictures of them, videos of naturism, or even nudism, videos of creepy old men stripping down to their nethers, doing things that are largely indulgent. Just because you could lead a life where you never actually have sex, doesn't mean that you can't find ways to satisfy that sin in you using the Internet as a medium. I don't know if whether or not all the garbage I've been letting into my head, is making me Gay, but it probably is. I'm so tired of it all. I can't even be repentant and trust Christ. Largely because I don't have a true grasp on what it means to trust him with all your heart, to humble yourself in his presence, and surrendering yourself to him. I can't do it. Because I can't even recognize sin and sexual immorality for what it is that I've seen. I cna't figure out that sin is sin. And truly, it's because I love to sin. Or I'm just indifferent to the act of it. - Christopher
  5. I'm still single, so I'd like to enjoy being single for a good lengthy time until God calls me to do his will, or calls me home. Marriage isn't just something you do for your happiness. You're entering into a commitment with your wife, and entering one with God. But nobody seems to care, because they abandoned God and his truth, and replaced him with a false idol. A lie. Countries where they don't know God yet or his love through Christ Jesus, and this thing happens frequently, are just as terrible. We should pray for them.
  6. "Universal Moral Law". It's really simple-sounding, but I've realized something: If you try to look at things and important issues from God's perspective, you already know what is right and wrong. But it's so hard and hardly anyone tries, because they don't want to confront the pressure that comes from knowing it. In human terms, "Right" and "Wrong"? Interchangeable. Varied. Old-fashioned way of thinking. Differently defined for a couple of years, then the bar gets lowered. And then you are either left with some kind of extremist "Left-Wing" society. The kind that doesn't care if it's wrong, or if it's right for them but wrong for others. It just feels "Right".
  7. I want a personal relationship with Christ. Have you accepted Him as your Savior? To be honest, no, I haven't. I really haven't, and I'm ashamed. I've let so many awful feelings and ideas cloud my thoughts, and I feel like I've become numb to the idea of letting him in. No matter how much I read the Bible, it all boils down to me retreating into myself when I can't handle things like my family, the pressure of finding a job or, someone who'd actually respond to me.
  8. I understand this from just reading from the forums. Nudity is something that is okay when it comes to viewing it purely for the art. Our bodies were gifts by God to be used by God to glorify him and praise him for what he did, and not for the glorification of ourselves. Nudity wasn't an issue for Adam and Eve when both were created. Adam was made to give name to the creatures God put on the Earth he created. Eve was there, created from one of Adam's ribs, to give him company. They could talk freely with God, speak to him, trust him, believe in him. They were tempted, and they took of the fruit from the tree God forbid them from eating, because they willingly chose to not trust God and instead consider what the Snake told them. The snake caused them to doubt what God gave them and go behind his back. Because of this they felt shame, exposure, and loss of trust. And this meant, when God finally confronted them, that they had wanted to hide their self-awareness of this exposure, both in physical nudity, and in mental shame. Clothes became necessary. God provided them with clothes to protect them. The body is a gift from God. But it's also something that we, humans, have and can easily cause to be depraved, corrupted, and polluted with all kinds of immorality, abuse, violence, and wrongful attractions. That's why I do love nudity in art, be male or female, but I don't have much love for things like FKK, or nudism, or naturism, or public displays of nudity between mass numbers of people. Because with the temptations associated with it, it simply distances us from God and his promise. So please consider who is in your heart today. God, or your sinful desires? The purpose of Art, or simply sexual immorality?
  9. The Bible technically doesn't condemn nudity, as I've read. You get naked to clean yourself. If you're a newywed couple, getting naked is a component of the precursor steps towards sexual intercourse. And the Body is, "A Temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have received from God." And the countless examples of nudity, public or otherwise in the Bible, and God's reaction towards it. Point being, don't you respect the body you're given? And glorify God with it? Being naked in the same room with several other people and their "parts" exposed for others to see still translates as not respect of the body God gave you, more like, dishonor and deceit. Adam and Eve were without shame and naked. In Eden. But then the snake comes along and tempts Eve with the Fruit. She just chooses to eat the fruit anyway, and her eyes are opened, and she immediately becomes "Self-aware of her nudity". The same thing befalls Adam. And, because they decided to not trust God and ate from the Fruit, of course, they will feel shame for things they try to Hide from him that they don't want to be exposed. So they get clothed, for their own protection, and get expelled from Eden. That's the point of wearing clothes. But these Cultures which multiplied as of late? Their Modus Operandi is "We can totally get back to God by being naked and exposed to one another! We have no shame!" I know that's a huge lie. They think that, but there are also many Free-body movements that don't really care about using Nudity to respect and "become closer to God". These movements are dedicated to perversion, self-indulgence and sexual fervour. In two words, "Sexual Immorality". I'm telling you, it just opens the gate to more obscene ideas that eventually become further warped to benefit the lusts and abominable desires of our hearts. Jesus died for the people lost to this sin, and we need to recognize that. Recognize through God's viewpoint how wrong these movements are. Jesus help us.
  10. .... I don't remember it too well, but this was something my Pastor talked about a Sunday not too recently. "Culture of Death"? Exactly what it says on the Tin. A Society that simply embraces lies and false idols and self-indulgent ideas suited only for their own selfish ends, and trying to live without God. Without Christ. Shoot, if I had to quote the Bible on this, then the closest comparison would be: 2 Tim: 3:1-7 "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastfu, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth." And just for emphasis: Phillipians 3:18-19 "For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things." And: Romans: 6:21 "What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!" A Culture of Death, he said, that was how he referred to it. It's bad enough that people are swept into it easily and without fail, succumbing to temptation until it's as normal as practicing daily Hygiene, but it's worse because it causes Christians lost in the thick of it become immune to it. Spiritual Numbness, or just being apathetic to a world at large that has people dying in their sins, dying as they kill one another, or turn against their family and loved ones, or corrupt one another with sexual immorality. And road widens towards Hell. I am scared. I'm scared of becoming Spiritually numb, and how it could push Christ out of my sight without me even realizing it.
  11. People say crazy things like, "Homosexuality is perfectly fine" or, "Nudism is free-body movement that brings you closer to God". It's amazing how people willingly fall into this veil of deceit. They also claim that "Nudism is pretty much non-sexual state of mind". But that can't be true. Because if that was the case, I wouldn't have horrible lustful urges that drive me to seek out pictures of nudism for sexual gratification. And I wouldn't feel shame in front of God for it, and I wouldn't feel like I'm driving myself away from God's embrace, dying. This Culture of Death makes me think about that.
  12. I'm new to this. Though that can be reasoned that it's mostly because I stink in the department of trusting God completely, and that shouldn't be. Hebrews summed it up best, didn't it? "Faith is being certain of what you hope for, sure of what you do not see." I want to regain my Faith in Christ, and follow his example. I've more trouble dealing with the temptations of sin in my life, and holding onto faith isn't easy when the Devil repeatedly knocks me down.
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