[Learning2Faith]

So, I'm new to the whole shebang that is faith in religion in general.

My previous faith was in mathematics. I found truth in quantifying the world set before us by an unknown greater being, in whom I've now found faith as the Christian God. My previous occupation was that of an artist, specifically that of a pornographer. The subject matter was continually graphic, sinful, and I bashfully admit that I took pride in at least the skill I had developed over the years of doing so.


I'm now looking for redemption. I've taken up craft work and volunteering at my local church, painting pieces and, last Christmas season, designing nativity scenes for both my neighbor's lawns and the sanctuary of my church. I wonder what ever may be enough to compensate of the sins of my youth, as I've taken an interest in sharing the word of God. I fear I'll feel guilty forever.


-- One Searching for Redemption in Prayer

[Des]

Atentative welcome, my matherbating acquaintance.


The link between math and porn is well established. Both are four letter words and both contain a single vowel. And studies have shown that the fiendish field of mathematics produces more atheists than any other branch of science. Furthermore, to embrace math is to deny the infallibility of the Bible, as mathmaniacs must deny that pi=3 as mentioned in 1 Kings 7:23. Once you start down the slippery slope of denying a single piece of scripture, this leaves the door wide open for Satan to walk in, and before you know it your closet is filled with the porn. Titles like Asian All Stars, Wok on the Wildside, Slant Eye For the Straight Guy, Asian Persuasion, and Wong Way Hone will soon fill your hard drive.


But even still there is hope. By putting aside advanced calculus and turning to advanced Christianity, you may still find your way through the gates of heaven. Through accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior, hours of daily prayer, attending and especially tithing generously tp a True Christian church, heaven is still a statistical probability in your future. Glory!

[Faith_Machine]

Two questions:

1. You say you regret your involvement with pornography and you want to be a Christian, but you haven't articulated for us your reasons for feeling this way. Could you elaborate? Were there specific Bible verses that convinced you of the need for salvation?


2. Now that you're out of "the biz," what are you doing for money?

[trutherr]

Originally Posted by Learning2Faith

So, I'm new to the whole shebang that is faith in religion in general.

My previous faith was in mathematics. I found truth in quantifying the world set before us by an unknown greater being, in whom I've now found faith as the Christian God. My previous occupation was that of an artist, specifically that of a pornographer. The subject matter was continually graphic, sinful, and I bashfully admit that I took pride in at least the skill I had developed over the years of doing so.


I'm now looking for redemption. I've taken up craft work and volunteering at my local church, painting pieces and, last Christmas season, designing nativity scenes for both my neighbor's lawns and the sanctuary of my church. I wonder what ever may be enough to compensate of the sins of my youth, as I've taken an interest in sharing the word of God. I fear I'll feel guilty forever.


-- One Searching for Redemption in Prayer

It is impossible to gain salvation and freedom through the works of our own hands. If that were possible, then God wouldn't have needed to send Jesus to die for us. It says in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." All you gotta do is accept and declare that Jesus is Lord over your life. Just believe in him. Once you accept him, you will be free forever because, "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John 8:36). Even in John 1:12 it reads,"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." God has given you the power to become his child, and he loves his children. 1 Corinthians 12:4-5 reads, "Charity (love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil". God does not have evil thoughts of you OP; he loves you very much. I hope you've felt encouraged!

[Didymus Much]

Originally Posted by trutherr

...bunch of stuff from an unknown source and thus disregarded out of hand snipped...

Reasons why anyone should listen to you would be a good subject to address in your introduction thread that you were specifically directed to create in your welcoming email.


Along with the regular requirements listed at the top of every page there, of course.


Thanks.

[Gay wilson]

Originally Posted by Didymus Much

Reasons why anyone should listen to you would be a good subject to address in your introduction thread that you were specifically directed to create in your welcoming email.


Along with the regular requirements listed at the top of every page there, of course.


Thanks.

Why should anyone listen to a atheist virgin such as yourself. <<<an indecent proposal removed by a helpful moderator>>>

[Didymus Much]

Originally Posted by Gay wilson

Why should anyone listen to a atheist virgin such as yourself. <<<an indecent proposal removed by a helpful moderator>>>

Oh, Ray, still making friends and influencing people, huh?


How about you give me a reason why I would want to be liked by the likes of you? Think you can do that? Go ahead, don't be so shy.

[BrotherLarry]

I heard of a person once (I think her name was Crystal Bassette) who was a porn star and then became a pastor, but that really doesn't count since women can't really be pastors.


Lots of women pastors would dispute that statement, but they would be wrong since I am a True Christian™ man and I know the Bible. There are groups on the Interwebs for pastors who struggle with porn (not sure how you struggle with it; you either enjoy it or you don't). I know I have never had a problem with smut, since the Blood of Jesus covers my wrongdoings and removes those desires from me if I pray to Him, and I sometimes do.


Bottom line: Get on your knees and pray for His forgiveness. He will forgive (1 John 1:9) and then stop watching porn. It's really that simple. Just ask almost any of the men on this forum. At one time all of them were entangled in the web of lust. Some were even entangled in the locked hutch of homosekshulality, groaning and moaning to the sights of nude and naked unclothed men. Disgusting.


Jesus, PRAISE HIS NAME, delivered those perverted men and made them servants of the living GOD. Can one go porn to pastor? Absolutely! Hallelujah! Thank You, Jesus! I feel like shouting!

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Learning2Faith

So, I'm new to the whole shebang that is faith in religion in general.

My previous faith was in mathematics. I found truth in quantifying the world set before us by an unknown greater being, in whom I've now found faith as the Christian God. My previous occupation was that of an artist, specifically that of a pornographer. The subject matter was continually graphic, sinful, and I bashfully admit that I took pride in at least the skill I had developed over the years of doing so.


I'm now looking for redemption. I've taken up craft work and volunteering at my local church, painting pieces and, last Christmas season, designing nativity scenes for both my neighbor's lawns and the sanctuary of my church. I wonder what ever may be enough to compensate of the sins of my youth, as I've taken an interest in sharing the word of God. I fear I'll feel guilty forever.


-- One Searching for Redemption in Prayer

Well, dear, a cautious to you! God always welcomes a repentant sinner, be it male (Luke 15:20) or female (John 8:11). However, the Road to Salvation™ ain't easy (Matthew 7:13-14).

If you really want to be Saved™, you should start by reading the Holy Bible.



Then you have to reject everything that science says but is contradicted by the Bible. (Such as the pi issue mentioned by Brother Des; God frowns upon adding fractions to the perfect number 3).

I will pray for you, dear!

[handmaiden]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

. . . God frowns upon adding fractions to the perfect number 3).

I will pray for you, dear!

That is an excellent point, Sister! It seems that God doesn't care for fractions in general. Afterall, He is against mixed marriages, so the children cannot be half of one thing and half of another. He doesn't allow for any instance of being "partly saved"; you either are or are not. The only time that things are divided up in the Bible is when God wipes out a third of things in Revelation and then comes back later for a second helping of thirds. (If you catch my drift. )

[CarlHudson]

Originally Posted by BrotherLarry

Jesus, PRAISE HIS NAME, delivered those perverted men and made them servants of the living GOD. Can one go porn to pastor? Absolutely! Hallelujah! Thank You, Jesus! I feel like shouting!

Amen to this!

[PatheticEmoTrash69]

Originally Posted by Des

Atentative welcome, my matherbating acquaintance.


The link between math and porn is well established. Both are four letter words and both contain a single vowel. And studies have shown that the fiendish field of mathematics produces more atheists than any other branch of science. Furthermore, to embrace math is to deny the infallibility of the Bible, as mathmaniacs must deny that pi=3 as mentioned in 1 Kings 7:23. Once you start down the slippery slope of denying a single piece of scripture, this leaves the door wide open for Satan to walk in, and before you know it your closet is filled with the porn. Titles like Asian All Stars, Wok on the Wildside, Slant Eye For the Straight Guy, Asian Persuasion, and Wong Way Hone will soon fill your hard drive.


But even still there is hope. By putting aside advanced calculus and turning to advanced Christianity, you may still find your way through the gates of heaven. Through accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior, hours of daily prayer, attending and especially tithing generously tp a True Christian church, heaven is still a statistical probability in your future. Glory!

Math is is an important skill to have and has no connection to porn. Send me links to said studies please. You also apparently have no respect for the amount of mathematics you use in your daily life. Go to the store MATH, drive across a bridge MATH is keeping your car from crashing through it. Engineers need to calculate how much materials to use for said bridge using CALCULUS. You obviously are a kindergarten dropout, because you think pi is 3. (3.1415926535897932384626433) in biblical times they did not have the equipment to measure pi more accurately. Also it never says pi is 3. Here is your quoted bible verse:
1 Kings 7:23King James Version (KJV)

23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.


Can you give me a bible verse that says not to learn math.


-im a pornstar watch porn everyday

[Faith_Machine]

OK, wow, I am really offended by the way this person is talking to my brother in Christ, Mr. Des.

Would somebody with admin privileges please issue an infraction to this individual?

And if we could get some prayer warriors to intercede on behalf of this poor, misguided person's aeternal soul, that would also be much appreciated.

[Brother Josiah]

The short answer in my opinion is yes. Through faith and by repenting for your sins can you be saved. However if you continue your sinful homosexual ways you will surely burn in hell for eternity.

Hebrews 13:2-5:

2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by PatheticEmoTrash69

Go to the store MATH, drive across a bridge MATH is keeping your car from crashing through it. Engineers need to calculate how much materials to use for said bridge using CALCULUS. You obviously are a kindergarten dropout

[redwhiteblue]

Originally Posted by Learning2Faith

So, I'm new to the whole shebang that is faith in religion in general.

My previous faith was in mathematics. I found truth in quantifying the world set before us by an unknown greater being, in whom I've now found faith as the Christian God. My previous occupation was that of an artist, specifically that of a pornographer. The subject matter was continually graphic, sinful, and I bashfully admit that I took pride in at least the skill I had developed over the years of doing so.


I'm now looking for redemption. I've taken up craft work and volunteering at my local church, painting pieces and, last Christmas season, designing nativity scenes for both my neighbor's lawns and the sanctuary of my church. I wonder what ever may be enough to compensate of the sins of my youth, as I've taken an interest in sharing the word of God. I fear I'll feel guilty forever.


-- One Searching for Redemption in Prayer

ANYONE can be saved praise Jesus! God loves all who repent praise GOD and Jesus and baby Jesus amen! However, it would be in bad form to sit next to me at service, considering you were once a heathen. We do allow your kind into church but it is not without limits. There would be doubts, of course, of whether your hands were clean of the masturbation, since leaving the life of a pornographer. I would love you to join the word of GOD, but not necessarily too close to my family. You are welcome to my church First Baptist Hope, but do leave all remnants of the gay at home. The conversion therapy classes ended in 2004 when our good reverend deemed the gay incurable and out of HIS SCOPE, sayeth the Lord. It truly is a sin of your own doing. Be saved!

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by redwhiteblue

God loves all who repent praise GOD

That is true. But can everyone repent? In Thessalonians we read:

II THESSALONIANS 2 .KJV . look up
13a But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you brethren beloved of the Lord
13b Because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth
14– Whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ

The fact that some were chosen means that some have not been chosen. In fact Jesus explained that most people are not chosen and do not attain Salvation. Those wretches never get called, otherwise God would not go out of His way to point out the distinction. Now whether some people who were chosen reject the call when it comes is a question for The Pastors but as regards those who remain unchosen from the beginning of time, which means before they were conceived, God is quite clear here. The sequence is simple. Conception. Birth. Meaningless life. Death. Torture. It's worth noting that there was a finite amount of time before conception but an infinite amount of time after death.

Revelation 14:11

[Mary Etheldreda]

Originally Posted by redwhiteblue

ANYONE can be saved praise Jesus! God loves all who repent praise GOD and Jesus and baby Jesus amen! However, it would be in bad form to sit next to me at service, considering you were once a heathen. We do allow your kind into church but it is not without limits. There would be doubts, of course, of whether your hands were clean of the masturbation, since leaving the life of a pornographer. I would love you to join the word of GOD, but not necessarily too close to my family. You are welcome to my church First Baptist Hope, but do leave all remnants of the gay at home. The conversion therapy classes ended in 2004 when our good reverend deemed the gay incurable and out of HIS SCOPE, sayeth the Lord. It truly is a sin of your own doing. Be saved!

I like your enthusiasm dear, but I fear your lessons have given you a faith with more holes than LA rappers' bodies. For example, Jesus can save anyone *He wants* but the Holy Bible tells us the LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation (Numbers 14:18). If your grandparents angered the LORD, maybe, just maybe your children will be considered, but there will be no hope for you.

Jesus will not consider bastard children, none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation (Deuteronomy 23:2), hunchbacks, dwarfs, people who need glasses (Leviticus 21:20), or men whose masculinity was taken from them (Deuteronomy 23:1; not to be confused with making yourself a eunuch for Christ; Matthew 19:12).

Finally, Being gay is indeed curable, dear. Jesus promises a restoration of health, physical and spiritual to True Christians™ (James 5:15). We even have a very successful ministry here to help Sodomites transition to a life of respect and normalcy: Twelve steps out of Homosexuality

[redwhiteblue]

Mary, I would love to read more scripture of GOD's hate for dwarfs. One cut me off in traffic the other day and I knew I sensed his evil intentions even before his heinous driving crime.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Originally Posted by redwhiteblue

Mary, I would love to read more scripture of GOD's hate for dwarfs. One cut me off in traffic the other day and I knew I sensed his evil intentions even before his heinous driving crime.

They. Are. Evil.