a year old christian

[babdah]

Just a year ago I was at the harvest crusade, I decided to give my life to Jesus Christ then. It was tough for me. I've been to HC a couple of times but this was the first time i went down to the stadium. I said the prayer and I broke out in tears. i was excited. Ive never felt this way before. but now all the energy is gone and i feel like i didn't really receive Christ. the temptations are getting stronger, and i dont feel the love. i cant fully understand what Christ did for me. i just cant grasp it. can Christians help me understand? i just dont get it

[Redeemed Papist]

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What Bible verse sets your heart racing to embrace Jesus and receive Him into yourself, friend?

[babdah]

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What Bible verse sets your heart racing to embrace Jesus and receive Him into yourself, friend?

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. Philippians 4:8

"For I know the plans I have for your," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:1

But then I read these verses and wonder why God would want this to happen and how America doesn’t see it if the Bible says it is ok to have slaves then why can’t we have them is America straying away from the bible

[Redeemed Papist]

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Philippians 4:8 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these ...


I'm not sure what Bible you are using, friend, but it's not the unaltered word of God.

[Brother Harold Porter]

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Ive never felt this way before. but now all the energy is gone and i feel like i didn't really receive Christ. the temptations are getting stronger, and i dont feel the love. i cant fully understand what Christ did for me. i just cant grasp it. can Christians help me understand? i just dont get it

Welcome my friend.

What are these temptations that Satan tempts you with? We can't help pray for you if we cannot ask Jesus to help you with whatever filthy sin that still distracts you. I once lusted for the backsides of other men, so I understand temptation.

Open up and tell all. You are among friends.

In Christ

[babdah]

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Welcome my friend.

What are these temptations that Satan tempts you with? We can't help pray for you if we cannot ask Jesus to help you with whatever filthy sin that still distracts you. I once lusted for the backsides of other men, so I understand temptation.

Open up and tell all. You are among friends.

In Christ

I cannot hear God he hasn’t spoken to me any. I have been reading some things lately about the epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story and also the similarity in the book of Ecclesiastes. Then I read about the Norse’s Gods and Horus. I also read about the Sumerians and the ten commandment look similar to the Hammurabi’s Code, from the 19th century BC.

[Brother Harold Porter]

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I cannot hear God he hasn’t spoken to me any. I have been reading some things lately about the epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story and also the similarity in the book of Ecclesiastes. Then I read about the Norse’s Gods and Horus. I also read about the Sumerians and the ten commandment look similar to the Hammurabi’s Code, from the 19th century BC.

And again, this is why it is so important to know what is tempting you. You are looking for excuses to dismiss God's Word in the KJV1611 as the real truth that it represents. Reading heretic gibberish and demonic prattle in an attempt to discount the gift of Jesus Christ.

My friend, I did this as well. So desperate to continue to wallow in a life of sodomy and narcotics, I tried every possible way to avoid admitting that I was nothing more than a filthy sinner, bound for Hell. You know what? There was not even one day of happiness during the twenty years that I chose to rape other men. Not one.

Then I let Jesus Christ enter me, abandoned the queerness, and life as a True Christian™ has been nothing but pure bliss.

Will you let Him save you?

In Christ

[babdah]

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this is why it is so important to know what is tempting you

I dont know, I pray for guidance and direction but i see nothing. I talk to God like a friend and still nothing.

You are looking for excuses to dismiss God's Word in the KJV1611 as the real truth that it represents

I am not! I am looking for reasons to stay a believer.

Reading heretic gibberish and demonic prattle in an attempt to discount the gift of Jesus Christ.

How so? I am a Religion Major working on my PHD on Christian studies. How is this heretic gibberish and demonic prattle?

Will you let Him save you?

He has and I still haven't heard his voice.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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I cannot hear God he hasn’t spoken to me any. I have been reading some things lately about the epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story and also the similarity in the book of Ecclesiastes. Then I read about the Norse’s Gods and Horus. I also read about the Sumerians and the ten commandment look similar to the Hammurabi’s Code, from the 19th century BC.

Dear friend, in your religious studies, have you come across the concept of diabolical mimicry? It's been known almost since the beginning of Christianity that the devil pre-stole aspects of Christianity to make pagan cults look suspiciously like the holy revelations that God would later give to us. Early Christians used the concept to answer the God-mockers who compared Christianity to existing pagan myths.

[Didymus Much]

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... I talk to God like a friend and still nothing...

What makes you think God wants to be your friend? Support your answer with Scripture, please.

[babdah]

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Dear friend, in your religious studies, have you come across the concept of diabolical mimicry? It's been known almost since the beginning of Christianity that the devil pre-stole aspects of Christianity to make pagan cults look suspiciously like the holy revelations that God would later give to us. Early Christians used the concept to answer the God-mockers who compared Christianity to existing pagan myths.

Yes, but i reject that idea because there is no way to "Pre-steal" ideas. How can you "presteal" ideas that haven't formed yet?

What makes you think God wants to be your friend? Support your answer with Scripture, please

Luke 16:9
Mat 11:19

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Yes, but i reject that idea because there is no way to "Pre-steal" ideas. How can you "presteal" ideas that haven't formed yet?

Then how do you explain the similarities?

[Redeemed Papist]

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Luke 16:9

Let's put that into context.

Luke 16 9And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

10He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Seems to me that Jesus was talking about something other than "God wants to be your friend." Seems He was talking more about how it's important for people to do the right thing and that God's law is more important than what people want in their lust.

[Redeemed Papist]

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Mat 11:19

Matthew 11 16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Oh look, in context this is part of a rebuke to people who whine and moan about two totally opposing acts in the same way. It's not saying that God wants to be your friend.

A true student of divinity and not some googling troll would, of course, know this.

[Didymus Much]

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...Luke 16:9
Mat 11:19

Oh, very good, you found the word "friend" in The Bible. Now try again, and see if you can find something actually relevant to the question I asked you.

Luke 16 is the parable of the unjust steward, which tells us that God wants you to fulfill your duties to your earthly masters with the same diligence with which you would serve God, hence:

Luke 16:11 "If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?"

Nothing to do with God wanting to be your friend.