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

I feel assured that I'm not going to get a heart attack today. If I go outside and take a walk I feel assured im not going to slip on ice, crack my head open and die today. But I don't supernaturally know for dead certain that either two of those things ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN FOR DEAD CERTAIN. But I feel assured it's not going to happen. Is it the same with the typical salvation experience? You don't have that super natural dead certain knowing but have the same type of assurance you're not going to randomly get a heart attack in the next minute kind of thing? im sure some people have that experience, but is that common of the typical saved person?

I feel obligation to turn from it and repent because I know what happens if you don't repent from sin. I watched porn before I got saved and I would feel terrible after watching it but terrible about it like how one feels terrible about accidentally breaking something very expensive or dear to them, not a moral kind of terrible. I'm pretty sure I do feel morally wrong/dirty about it though.

I struggle with porn addiction since I was 8 years old. Everytime i watch porn i feel bad and guilty but i cant seem to feel personally sorry to god like that feeling of empathy and sorryness for the person youd get if you like punched someone or did something evil to them i dont feel that way towards God. i dont know why, i worry if it means im too far gone. or maybe it just means i dont have a strong relationship with god, i know god is real and i know god is love but i dont have a day to day deeply active personal relationship with god like some do, maybe thats why. (dont think ive ever heard god personally speak to me) i heard porn addiction is caused by intimacy wounds, i was an intimate empathetic person as a kid but ive never felt intimate with anyone for several years (im 20), never had a girlfriend or a mutual crush, feel like ill be forever alone because im unnattractive multiple times, had a bad relationship with my parents for most of my teen years, and only have a few friends im close with and my empathy is bad, it makes me feel like a sociopath sometimes because i genuinely find it hard to care about people most of the time. i feel like i have some severe emotional wounds regarding intimacy.

It's not too late if you still desire to be close to God.

Hi, I'm writing this because I think I really need help, I've been addicted to pornography since I was 8, I got free for five months when I was 19 and in a bad moment of discouragement i relapsed and have been indulging in it for months, I have not indulging in it totally carelessly atleast, I try not to watch it but sometimes I feel so low and lonely and like God isn't talking to me so I start feeling insecure about my relationship with God and then I get the temptation of one of my favorite porn scenes flashes in to my mind and I impulsively reach out for porn for a quick mood boost and as a temporary fix to the feelings of loneliness and physical and spiritual insecurity. When I watch it I know Im risking my salvation and risking going to hell but I go after my urges and just do it, then I feel horrible with condemnation and guilt after and regret it entirely, always. I'm a really lazy person with weak willpower, it really costs me just to go to the gym for an hour a day. And Ive delayed getting help with pornography via an addictions counselor by procrastinating appointments until weeks drag on. I recently put a complete and total blocker on my computer so I cant see it on my computer unless I were to get really crafty, but I procrastinated doing that for a month until it got this bad. I'm going ot see an addictions counselor and a Pentecostal counselor and ive started a daily devotion, I really hope that helps things. Also Im not sure if I hate pornography, i hate that im addicted to it and ive sunken this low, but if i hate pornography itself? I dont like watching porn but im not sure if i can say i really hate porn itself, maybe because it feels so good in the moment? do i need to hate the sin with all my heart or is hating the fact that i struggle with it and not liking it enough?

There is a difference but I've also been trying to change by consciously throwing sin out of my life (repenting of sin to purify myself) so its hard to tell what is of god and whats me. One of the first differences I noticed was I hate horror movies now. I was watching this horror movie before I got converted and I saw it no problem, then after I got converted I couldnt bare to watch it and had to shut it off. thing is i went back to looking at gory things after unfortunately (now dont do it anymore) so i guess you could say theres some change. I have felt God's presence before

Hi, I've been struggling with assurance of salvation for quite a while now. I don't know if i'm struggling with it due to mental health (diagnosed with "Severe OCD" and also have a personality of being worrisome and very insecure) or if it's because my theology is bad (had a bit of a works theology hybrid going on where I think you mantained your salvation through your efforts) or if its because Im actually not really saved. Last year I made up my mind that I wanted to commit my life to Jesus and I said the sinners prayer with a pastor, I was sincere and honest with my prayer, and in my desire to be with Christ. The only negative I can really pull out of that experience was I had some fearful doubts if the prayer would work in the back of my head incase I messed something up. I believe my pastor explained to me what salvation really was and I'm pretty sure I felt God's presence after the prayer and during my baptism. I guess my only doubt is if I truly understood how salvation worked when I said the prayer? I dont remember exactly if I understood salvation was a one time thing by God's grace alone, or if I thought it was a works based thing. I've said the prayer many times afterwards believing I would be saved by God's grace and my sincerity through the prayer. So I should be good right? I think maybe I havent realized that im also kept saved by gods grace because for a while i believed that even though salvation was by grace, that i kept my salvation through my own works. Maybe that's the whole issue? Should I just continue to keep on believing in God's grace alone and get closer to God and then let God's closeness reassure me?

Hope this helps, this video helped me when I was wrestling with blasphemous thoughts. Also check out the Unpardonable Sin by David Wilkerson. He also breaks it down very well. These thoughts are not in your heart, if these thoughts were in your heart you wouldn't care or fight back or struggle with insulting the holy spirit. It's just an empty product of the mind, and/or demons/spiritual warfare. If you saw the video from Tim Conway you would understand the context as to which it was given. The pharisees, who were VERY intellectual people and knew more about scripture than anyone else at the time, even with all the knowledge of scripture of the messiah and seeing the miracles of the messiah still decided to deny Jesus EVEN when they saw the very power of the holy spirit at hand, thus the context of the unpardonable sin is given. Because if even witnessing the holy spirit right in their faces still willingly chose to deny Jesus, then what else would be left to convince them or make them choose otherwise and in thus in turn be forgiven? It's a condition of heart, not some random thoughts. If blaspheming the holy spirit was as simple as thoughts in your head it would be mentioned in the letters of the Apostles, don't you think? If it was as easy as thinking up thoughts to be cast away from God forever it would've been warned about in the letters of the apostles. Instead "sinning unto death" apostatizing and reprobate mind is warned about in the letters of the apostles, which speaks about a condition of heart. Don't worry about those blasphemous thoughts, I struggled with them and I even had to go through ERP therapy where I had to say them out loud. And I was still touched by God's presence later in my faith walk afterwards so I obviously wasn't abandoned by God for having been in the same condition as you. As long as you know that those thoughts are not what you want to think towards God, then you're good to go.

Hi, I keep falling back into pornography over and over again. I fall in to it, feel super condemned, promise myself I'll never do it again, and then after a while that I've cooled off from it I think to myself "It's okay, God will forgive me" and throw myself back in. I've been an addict since I was 8 and I was once free from for almost several months but threw myself back in it. Please pray that God will do what it takes to me quit this sin, and pray for mercy and forgiveness and hatred for pornography.

No. I used to make crazy bets with myself to motivate myself like "If I dont do X something awful will happen" to motivate me, but this isn't the same thing because It's not something I came up in my head with. Thanks for the replies everyone, I am feeling better.