F_Ivan

the coffee things sounds like legalism. There's a difference between mind and mood/energy altering, mind altering is drunkeness/high.

It's a Canadian company I think. (I'm in Canada) micro dosing is legal in Canada for mental disorders. I'll have to speak with my psychiatrist

are you saying medications for mental disorders count as sorcery?

I was looking for cognitive enhancing supplements online (I have attention/concentration problems as well as other things) and a company I trust came out with a new line of cognitive enhancers that feature those kinds of hallucinogenic mushrooms but in micro doses mixed in to their supplement, so basically if I took it I'd be micro dosing. Don't have intentions of getting high or anything like that but I've heard a lot of great things about micro dosing, but it's all from secular people and I've only found one Christian guy who advocates for it and I'm not sure if he actually is a born again Christian or not so the Christian opinion on it seems very sparse. Looking for opinions preferably from actual born again Christians who've had experience with this kind of thing. Personally the only part that concerns me is I don't know if the cognitive benefits of these mushrooms can actually be separated from the high experience. I wonder if even micro dosing still counts as getting high, even if its just a minor high (being drunk is a sin). I don't know enough about these things though

is there something wrong with being happy the demons and devil are going to burn in the lake of fire for all eternity? the thought of enjoying or talking with demons or devils like some new age occultists absolutely *expletive* disgusts me. I feel compromising this hatred is compromising on justice/goodness, and against all my values.

Okay but what about what I said in the OP was erroneous? (I know you mean well)

Im definatley not trying to start arguments. I only made this topic because I feel like my understanding of the trinity is what most would call modalism or something, then i saw that people were saying that was a heresy and I started looking up explanations and a lot of people were saying that Son Father and Spirit are the 'same susbtance' and equally God and form one divinity, to me that sounds like saying me and my mother are the 'same substance' ("human") but that term "human" is not a living personal thing it's just a group/concept. I have the same understanding by the way as you (only difference id put is that God the son and God the father can interact with each other, meanwhile F_Ivan the WorthyChristian user and F_Ivan the brother do not interact with each other).

I feel like the water explanation is decent because the ice is 100% water and so is the vapor and liquid, except that the water can exist as both liquid vapor and ice at the same time would be more accurate I feel Did you read what I said? How am I in error in my OP, im not saying my OP is a perfect explanation, just that I understand Jesus as 100% God, the God of Genesis and same with holy spirit and father, and that yet there is only 1 personal living God. I was arguing against the concept of Son father and spirit being 100% God and "of the same substance of God" like how me and my mother are distinct persons yet me and my mom are 100% "fully human"/same substance, but the term "fully human" is not a living personal being in itself, it's little more than a concept/thing. Hope you understand

i recently heard that the trinity is three separate persons but with the same divinity/attributes as God? Isn't that basically the same as three equally powerful creator gods? Or isn't that basically reducing God to just being a joint force of son father and spirit but not actually one God? How I understand God is that there is one personal god (not just one "divinity" in the abstract sense) and that Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are 100% God, Jesus is the same God who made Adam, and so is God the father and the holy spirit. My understanding of the relationship between father son and spirit is basically the same as the concept of omnipresence, God can be both in New York and Los Angeles at the same time and yet only be one God and not two gods. In the same way Jesus on earth prayed to the father while both being 100% God and there only being one personal living God. I believe that some would call this a form of modalism?

Hi, I've noticed that ever since I've came to Christ, a change I've noticed is that I feel similar to how I did as a really small kid (like 4-6 years old) and by that I mean that I was very sensitive by heart and conscience as a kid, I came from a secular immigrant (Latino) background but I feel like deep down in my heart I knew there is a good personal God out there as a small child and I really believed that at heart if I remember right (something I lost conviction of growing up), I don't think I specifically knew God as Jesus during that time but yeah. Can anyone relate to this? My only concern is why should I be feeling like a kid when Im pretty certain I was not even born again as a kid. EDIT: Also as a kid I felt really convicted that goodness existed, like there was something besides this world im pretty sure

Wrong because you are forcefully plugging calvinism into the verse. God doesn't forcefully and completely destroy man's free will. no free will at all is unbiblical. A master can throw out his slave/servant. "And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." "The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. 51Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." David Wilkerson himself said he had been warned by God that would be all over for him if he continued in a certain line of action/sin, and spoke of godly ministers he once knew who had the same thing that happened to Saul happen to them (God removes his annointing/holy spirit from them). There are far more verses in scriptures that heavily imply you can lose your salvation. That doesn't mean God loves you any less though. I believe that one would have to be so black hearted and wicked that there would be NO room for repentance at all in their heart and they'd have to render God's holy spirit completely powerless for God to give them over to a reprobate mind/a Hebrews 6. Let us never forget that God is also a personal God, he's not just an arbitrary infinite force of Love for his elect and an infinite force of wrath for the damned.

yeah but i basically feel assured it wont happen even though i dont have a supernatural knowing it wont happen, that was what i was trying to use as an example

That is simple. Whoever totally and completely apostatizes (not just childishly/impulsively getting angry one day and throwing in the towel, but apostasy from a hardened black wicked heart) from God who has experienced God (pretty sure that it's also including a person who was once saved judging by the description it gives) has basically committed the unpardonable sin/eternally condemned/reprobate condition.

I never trust myself to achieve moral perfection, I know it's impossible and downright foolish. Like I said, I believe in all the correct stuff.

well it seems like its almost impossible to be saved then, i thought the condition was believe in your heart to be saved and not of works. not grovel every day to God for years and maybe god will save you