Searching for Truth

[Ixoye14]

Hello All!

I want to introduce myself, say hello, and hopefully find a community of trustworthy Christians who are not wavering in today's watered down society. I hope I have found it here.

To tell a little bit about myself: I am 29, married, and have no children. I was first saved when I was 14, and I was very involved with church throughout my adolescence and through college. Unfortunately, toward the end of college, I began to backslide and get caught up in the world.

At the age of 24 I met my husband. He is a pastor, so one would think my life would be headed in the right direction. However, he is a United Methodist pastor, and has liberal views that I can no longer agree with. When we wed, I was enamored by him. He is 14 year my senior, intelligent, attractive, and of great humor. I became wrapped up in his world and wanted nothing more than to be with him.

Now, however, I am terrified. He supports gay rights, divorce, abortion, and every other socially liberal agenda I can think of. I wanted to experiment and rebel when I first met him, and I went along with his beliefs.

Now, though, I can see how wrong I was and how wrong he is. I feel lost, trapped, and alone. I know that he is headed for hell--even moreso because he is, at this point, a false profit. I do not agree with his ungodly views of homosexuality, religion...well, most anything! He has even gone so far as to say that Jesus was a "literary movement", and was not an actual physical being who is the Son of God!
I don't know if I have sinned too greatly by wavering and marrying someone who is so far off of God's will and God's word, but I hope that there is still hope for me.
I know God hates divorce, but I do not know what to do.
My husband doesn't want children, even though I am in great health and think I would be a wonderful mother. He wants me to work full time outside the home instead, so that I can make money so he can retire early.

Again, I just do not know what to do. I love God, I love Jesus, and I when I get to Heaven, I want Jesus Christ to say, Well done, good and faithful servant.
I just hope I can still get there from here, and I believe that a community full of faithful servants is the best start.

Right now, because I continue to support my husband, I attend a United Methodist Church. I do not know how to seek a new church, one that actually follows the Bible, while being married to the man with whom I am wed.

My favorite Bible verses are Romans 12:1-2
1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Searching for Truth

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[Ixoye14]

Re: Searching for Truth

I am not Greek, but apologize if I have seemed that way through my posting. I will spend some time reading and searching the forum. I know there is a great deal of knowledge and wisdom, and I look forward to learning as much as possible.
I sincerely thank you for your reply!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Searching for Truth

I am not Greek, but apologize if I have seemed that way through my posting. I will spend some time reading and searching the forum. I know there is a great deal of knowledge and wisdom, and I look forward to learning as much as possible.
I sincerely thank you for your reply!

Well what's your name then? Your proper Christian name I mean.

And what is the significance of "14?"

[Bill R. Briscoe]

Re: Searching for Truth

Hello All!

I want to introduce myself, say hello, and hopefully find a community of trustworthy Christians who are not wavering in today's watered down society. I hope I have found it here.

To tell a little bit about myself: I am 29, married, and have no children. I was first saved when I was 14, and I was very involved with church throughout my adolescence and through college. Unfortunately, toward the end of college, I began to backslide and get caught up in the world.

At the age of 24 I met my husband. He is a pastor, so one would think my life would be headed in the right direction. However, he is a United Methodist pastor, and has liberal views that I can no longer agree with. When we wed, I was enamored by him. He is 14 year my senior, intelligent, attractive, and of great humor. I became wrapped up in his world and wanted nothing more than to be with him.

Now, however, I am terrified. He supports gay rights, divorce, abortion, and every other socially liberal agenda I can think of. I wanted to experiment and rebel when I first met him, and I went along with his beliefs.

Now, though, I can see how wrong I was and how wrong he is. I feel lost, trapped, and alone. I know that he is headed for hell--even moreso because he is, at this point, a false profit. I do not agree with his ungodly views of homosexuality, religion...well, most anything! He has even gone so far as to say that Jesus was a "literary movement", and was not an actual physical being who is the Son of God!
I don't know if I have sinned too greatly by wavering and marrying someone who is so far off of God's will and God's word, but I hope that there is still hope for me.
I know God hates divorce, but I do not know what to do.
My husband doesn't want children, even though I am in great health and think I would be a wonderful mother. He wants me to work full time outside the home instead, so that I can make money so he can retire early.

Again, I just do not know what to do. I love God, I love Jesus, and I when I get to Heaven, I want Jesus Christ to say, Well done, good and faithful servant.
I just hope I can still get there from here, and I believe that a community full of faithful servants is the best start.

Right now, because I continue to support my husband, I attend a United Methodist Church. I do not know how to seek a new church, one that actually follows the Bible, while being married to the man with whom I am wed.

My favorite Bible verses are Romans 12:1-2
1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Welcome to our Godly® forum! It seems to be that you are entirely correct about your husband being a false prophet and embracing many non-Christian ideals and morals.

You may think your situation is possibly causing you unhappiness, but I can assure you: this doesn't make any bit of difference.

You being happy is the last thing God cares about. What matters is that you are of strong faith and you bear Holy Children to spread the word of our savior Jesus Christ. Let us look to our King James Bible for answers to your predicament.

1 Corinthians 7:
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
22For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

Your sole purpose is to submit to your husband and to bear and raise children of God. There is no doubt that without you, your husband would burn in the fiery pits of Hell, but so long as you adhere to every word of the bible and raise your children the proper way, salvation lies within reach for the both of you. There is always the chance that your husband could be redeemed by be being saved by yourself. Now as for your worldly happiness; it matters not: 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. (1 Corinthians 7:30-31)

You could think of yourself as a man's circumcised penis. Would God expect you to suddenly become unmarred genitalia when you finally saw the error in your blasphemous ways? No. He would expect you keep living your hideous, prepuce-less life obeying his every Word.

Now I'm not saying if something absolutely awful were to happen to your husband, that you would not be able to find that True Christian™ man of your dreams and live a full, rich and happy life in the eyes of Christ. Say he were to accidentally die from an abortion clinic explosion: You would be morally free to marry another man, so long as he is of the Lord as per the scripture below:

1 Corinthians 7:39-40
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.


I hope this helped, and may you continue to find solace in the warm, cozy embrace of our Lord.

Shout Glory!

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Searching for Truth

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Peter 3:1-2

Clearly you are not submissive enough to your husband. If you whine and complain at home like you did the very first time you spoke up here, then it's no wonder he hasn't converted.

[Ixoye14]

Re: Searching for Truth

I feel silly now! I did not even think about my forum name (Ixoye) being Greek. It is the name I have used on my email for years after a friend and I read it on a license plate almost two decades ago. Now I see where one might think I am a Greek!
Forgive me for being on the slow side this evening, and perhaps for not better thinking through and discerning my forum name.

To answer your questions, my true name is Sarah Davenport. The 14 in my forum name is my favorite number. 14 is the age I was when I was saved by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Again, thank you for taking your time to correspond with me!

[Steve]

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I feel silly now! I did not even think about my forum name (Ixoye) being Greek. It is the name I have used on my email for years after a friend and I read it on a license plate almost two decades ago. Now I see where one might think I am a Greek!
Forgive me for being on the slow side this evening, and perhaps for not better thinking through and discerning my forum name.

To answer your questions, my true name is Sarah Davenport. The 14 in my forum name is my favorite number. 14 is the age I was when I was saved by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Again, thank you for taking your time to correspond with me!

And now, young lady. What age are you now?

[Ixoye14]

Re: Searching for Truth

Welcome to our Godly® forum! It seems to be that you are entirely correct about your husband being a false prophet and embracing many non-Christian ideals and morals.

You may think your situation is possibly causing you unhappiness, but I can assure you: this doesn't make any bit of difference.

You being happy is the last thing God cares about. What matters is that you are of strong faith and you bear Holy Children to spread the word of our savior Jesus Christ. Let us look to our King James Bible for answers to your predicament.

1 Corinthians 7:
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
22For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

Your sole purpose is to submit to your husband and to bear and raise children of God. There is no doubt that without you, your husband would burn in the fiery pits of Hell, but so long as you adhere to every word of the bible and raise your children the proper way, salvation lies within reach for the both of you. There is always the chance that your husband could be redeemed by be being saved by yourself. Now as for your worldly happiness; it matters not: 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. (1 Corinthians 7:30-31)

You could think of yourself as a man's circumcised penis. Would God expect you to suddenly become unmarred genitalia when you finally saw the error in your blasphemous ways? No. He would expect you keep living your hideous, prepuce-less life obeying his every Word.

Now I'm not saying if something absolutely awful were to happen to your husband, that you would not be able to find that True Christian™ man of your dreams and live a full, rich and happy life in the eyes of Christ. Say he were to accidentally die from an abortion clinic explosion: You would be morally free to marry another man, so long as he is of the Lord as per the scripture below:

1 Corinthians 7:39-40
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.


I hope this helped, and may you continue to find solace in the warm, cozy embrace of our Lord.

Shout Glory!

This has most certainly helped, thank you! The part I have reread over and over is that God does not care about my happiness. I know it is true, I believe it, but a reminder certainly helps!
This is not about me, it is about my obedience to God and my husband. I will continue to reread your post and the guiding scripture going forward; it clears my confusion and loneliness.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Peter 3:1-2

Clearly you are not submissive enough to your husband. If you whine and complain at home like you did the very first time you spoke up here, then it's no wonder he hasn't converted.

Thank you so much for your reply. You are most certainly right. As difficult as it is to hear your words, they ring true. I am in the situation I am in, and God is to be praised! I am certainly trying to be submissive, and will do better going forward.
I want nothing more than for my husband to find salvation. I will obey him and God so that God may be glorified!

I do want to apologize for appearing whiney and insubordinate to my husband with my introduction. I did not realize I came across that way until you pointed it out. I certainly see it now, though, and absolutely need to change my thoughts and my heart if I really want to honor God! Thank you for your perceptive and candid reply.

[Ixoye14]

Re: Searching for Truth

And now, young lady. What age are you now?

I am 29. Not so young to not have children.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Searching for Truth

I feel silly now! I did not even think about my forum name (Ixoye) being Greek. It is the name I have used on my email for years after a friend and I read it on a license plate almost two decades ago. Now I see where one might think I am a Greek!
Forgive me for being on the slow side this evening, and perhaps for not better thinking through and discerning my forum name.

To answer your questions, my true name is Sarah Davenport. The 14 in my forum name is my favorite number. 14 is the age I was when I was saved by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Again, thank you for taking your time to correspond with me!

What part of Tennessee are you in? I can probably recommend a good independant Baptist Church to your husband.

Methodists are false Christians you know.

For one thing, I'll bet your "pastor" is either a girl or a queer or both. That is pure blasphemy, according to the Word of God. Just look at this abomination.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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I am 29. Not so young to not have children.

Nope. Pretty much you've mocked God long enough to have guaranteed only retarded babies, if any. Don't feel bad, your example of what NOT to do might just inspire the next generation of gals to actually read their Holy Bibles and trust Jesus, and not just pay lip service to the belief for the sake of family friendly pot-lucks and "Fall Festivals" on Halloween.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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I feel silly now! I did not even think about my forum name (Ixoye) being Greek. It is the name I have used on my email for years after a friend and I read it on a license plate almost two decades ago. Now I see where one might think I am a Greek!

Do you honestly mean to tell us that you are a lifelong Christian and the wife of a pastor and don't know what that word means? I find that hard to believe.

[LaQrundrellia]

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How you gonna be 29 and aint got no children? i had my first baby when I was 12.

I think your man be doing the butt sex with his missus and missed the mark.