[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

So may I ask Brother, what are you working on currently?

My nephew.

He is drifting from the narrow path and beginning to consort with the wrong sort.

YIC

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

But surely you can see that I can judge others and I welcome Christ to judge me. This is because I am free of sin (see 1 John 3:6-9). He can judge me all He wants.

I can judge as a True Christian™ but you, my fine feathered friend are not.

Time will tell if you can be Saved™: you have the moxy but do you have diligence to read the Bible cover to cover a live by it's rules?

YIC

Of course I do its really hard though I wont lie :/. I have given up SO much for God and Jesus. Like for example, videogames. Most videogames are all about competition, killing, looting, stealing etc. Yea, the hardest thing for me right now, is not being competitive or trying to be the best. I cant find the Bible verse right now, if you want I will find it, but basically striving to be the best or #1 is VERY bad. And yet I train Martial Arts and used to go to tournaments trying to win first place, obviously because you win right? Oh well. But yes Brother, I do have the diligence to read the Holy Bible cover to cover and follow it's rules. Thats why, compared to most, I read so slow. I dont go further until I've mastered whatever is taught. For example, you know how long it was for me to learn the commandment of honouring thy Father and thy Mother? After all the thing my Birth Father did to me as a child? However, I've gotten over it. What I'm working on right now is turning the other cheek.

So may I ask Brother, what are you working on currently? Nobody is perfect, and I find when I get good at one thing and keep improving, I lack in something else and have to go back and fix it again, and again. It's almost as if you can never be 100% perfect, but can try your best to be as good as you can possibly be. God bless you Brother, and thanks for this intellectual conversation.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

I am I was just saying and using the quote because he judged her to be a lesbian when she did nothing of the sort. I was just saying that he should be careful, because if he judges people based on the way they look then he will be judged the same way, that is all. I didn't misunderstand anything, just a friendly warning. It is all good though, because we all make mistakes, even I do nobody is perfect Romans 3:23

But surely you can see that I can judge others and I welcome Christ to judge me. This is because I am free of sin (see 1 John 3:6-9). He can judge me all He wants.

I can judge as a True Christian(tm) but you, my fine feathered friend are not.

Time will tell if you can be Saved(tm): you have the moxy but do you have diligence to read the Bible cover to cover a live by it's rules?

YIC

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

I don't know if you're Christian or not, but hey: The Most MISUNDERSTOOD Passage in All the Bible (Matthew 7:1-5).

I am I was just saying and using the quote because he judged her to be a lesbian when she did nothing of the sort. I was just saying that he should be careful, because if he judges people based on the way they look then he will be judged the same way, that is all. I didn't misunderstand anything, just a friendly warning. It is all good though, because we all make mistakes, even I do nobody is perfect Romans 3:23

[Didymus Much]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Yea like an emoticon, thank you Brother for the welcoming and WOAH I don't know if she's a lesbian or not but hey, Matthew 7:1-2

I don't know if you're Christian or not, but hey: The Most MISUNDERSTOOD Passage in All the Bible (Matthew 7:1-5).

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Oh I get it' now. Like an emoticon.

I got confused by the picture of the dyke.

Welcome to the forum.

Yea like an emoticon, thank you Brother for the welcoming and WOAH I don't know if she's a lesbian or not but hey, Matthew 7:1-2

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

No Brother, o___O = her eyebrows. See how her eyebrows are? Thats what o___O means, when you raise one eyebrow. It basically means you dont understand what someone is saying. Its modern internet terminology, I apologize for any confusion I have caused.

Oh I get it' now. Like an emoticon.

I got confused by the picture of the dyke.

Welcome to the forum.

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

What are you talking about? Mr. Creeser doesn't run this entire site. He's busy with his True Christian™ duties and can't be bothered to do what a woman ought to be capable of doing.

Oh I thought you insinuated that he ran the whole site when you said Mr.Creeser was very busy. I didn't know women were meant to run this website, my apologies.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Ahh I get it. Sorry, didn't know this site was run by 1 person my bad. I apologize, I didn't know.

What are you talking about? Mr. Creeser doesn't run this entire site. He's busy with his True Christian(tm) duties and can't be bothered to do what a woman ought to be capable of doing.

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Well I don't get it: does o__0 mean lesbien?

YIC

No Brother, o___O = her eyebrows. See how her eyebrows are? Thats what o___O means, when you raise one eyebrow. It basically means you dont understand what someone is saying. Its modern internet terminology, I apologize for any confusion I have caused.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Towards James Hutchines - I will show you what I mean okay James? o__O is the equivilant to making a face like this ---

Well I don't get it: does o__0 mean lesbien?

YIC

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Mr. Creeser is a very busy man.

Ahh I get it. Sorry, didn't know this site was run by 1 person my bad. I apologize, I didn't know.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

But seriously, what does TL;DR mean?

Mr. Creeser is a very busy man.

[Born Again Christian]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

True John, I just haven't read the whole Holy Bible yet, and I have to keep re-reading it because I either forget things, or I do not remember them completely. I was just hoping for some clarification so I can fix my mistakes beforehand. Any scriptures you know of that could help would be appreciated. Also sorry for the long introduction XD you asked how did I find Jesus, and well that is how it happened.

But seriously, what does TL;DR mean?

[John Creeser]

Re: New guy, Christian as of this year ... but I have a lot of questions to ask

Hey Everybody reading this, I REALLY appreciate your help

Hey everybody, I discovered this forum by looking for answers to Holy Bible questions through Yahoo and Google links. So Im the new guy here

But before I get into my questions, first it said to put my favourite Bible verse and this is VERY easy to put because it made me laugh out loud when I read it:


Exodus Chapter 5 verse 6: And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bossom. And he put his hand into his bossom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

I found that verse HILARIOUS because I thought Moses pulled out a bunch of dandruff from his bossoms XD because that would equate to leprous as snow. Oh well, it was God the LORD showing him his abillities so I won`t question it. Besides, I always figured God had a sense of humor. I also remember someone telling me about a verse where someone throws poop at people xD.

But okay, so I have a few questions to ask that I will put after how I became a Born Again Christian in the first place. This is going to be a long story, but if you read it all I`d REALLY appreciate it. Thank you very much for listening.

How I became a Christian:

First off some details and background on my life, my Birth Father was Catholic and my birth Mother was Christian. However, as a kid my Birth Father was molested by Preists at his church in Quebec (by the way, the reason I call them Birth Mother and Birth Father is because Our Father is in Heaven). My Birth Father was also a alcoholic but my Birth Mother was an extremely non violent person. They had two children together, my brother James and my sister Candy. If they were baptized I do not know. However, after about 20 years my Birth Father and Birth Mother, after conflicts, physical violence, etc. decided to start over as sorts, but here is where it gets crazy, my conception. According to my Birth Father, he never had sex with my mother and thought she cheated on him. Where as my Birth Mother claimed, that my Birth Father spilled his seed on the bed while she was sleeping with my Sister Josie, whom was about 3 at the time, because at that time my Birth Mother and Birth Father slept in different rooms. So basically, they both don`t know how I was conceived. I always thought that was a very interesting story, and when I was born my Birth Mother said I came out like a rocket as SOON as the doctor went home for the night, and that blood shot all over the walls(sorry if that is graphic but it is the truth). Then there was a fire alarm or something and she wasn`t allowed to leave her room and see me etc. etc. So that is how I was born, and the circumstances up to my birth.
Now my Sister Josie, she used to have ALL the attention because she was the baby. So when I was born, I kind of took it all away from her, thus is why throughout our lives she would always say how she`s prettier than me, or that I was a loser, had no friends etc. All I did was play videogames and be quiet and stick to myself. My Brother James who was about 25 when I was born was very much like my mother, where as my Sister Candy was much more like my Birth Father.
Enough details, time to get to the root of the story. So my Birth Father would always talk about how, and this is a paraphrase but it`s basically what he said, "They found the missing page in the Holy Bible. It was supposed to go at the beginning. It says that everything after this page is a complete lie." Basically, my Birth Father thought the Holy Bible was a lie, and that it was all fake. So I grew up without going to Church(and I still do not but I will explain why later in my story) and a family where the Holy Bible wasn`t read. Now my Birth Mother is a lesbian. Keep that in mind, because she told me recently she just always wanted 4 children, but after my Sister Josie she didn`t think she would get a 4th but lo and behold, God, the LORD, granted her her dream in my opinion. However personally, I think my Birth Father turned her lesbian. But basically, neither of my parents preeched me anything biblical. The only things I was taught was "treat people how you wanted to be treated" from my mother which is kind of like the eye for an eye scripture somewhere in Leviticus I believe, to quote me on that I`m not 100% accurate on scripture yet, and my Birth Father always taught me that "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". So I grew up on those 2 principles, but no scripture etc.
As I grew up, my family at home life sucked I wont lie. It wasnt a loving environment, very hateful and evil. So I didnt like being at home, I prefered school to be honest.
As for school, I didnt like school much either. I thought math was fun because math was logical, but I didnt like much anything else and it showed in my grades. A in math, Cs in basically everything else. However, I survived. I got bullied a lot but I just escaped it all by playing videogames.
However, summer of _____ when I was going to be going to high school, I ended up being influenced by my family members to smoke pot or marijuana if you want to call it that. I didnt feel anything at first and didnt really like it. However, here comes high school.
When I went to high school I lost a lot of my old grade school friends and that didnt bother me much. Most of them would beat me up, punch me, I got beaten up a lot in junior school even though I took Karate a lot and was pretty good at it (that will be asked in one of my questions later so keep that in the back of your head for now). However in high school, I was scared. Everyone was much bigger and stronger and junior school kids didnt beat you up till you bled. Sure I got hit in the testicles a lot and beaten up a lot, but I didnt bleed.
In High school, I ended up, after being bullied by people who did go to my junior school, and because my friend, I`ll just use first names so you cant find any of these people I talk about, Terence, he was from my Karate school too and he knew Jiu-Jitsu and Karate like I did, but he liked to fight unlike me. And I had an enemy from junior school named Tommy because of a fight we got into for a dumb reason, he just didnt like me I dont know what I did to him I was nice to everybody(except Huma who I felt very bad for as I got older, even to this day because everyone used to say she smelled bad. I pray for her :l ).
So what ended up happening was I ended up joining the `stoner`kids. How it happened was because I used to volunteer at the school cafeteria because Id get a free lunch(especially because my Birth Father barely and I mean BARELY fed me any food, he was a very greedy and cheap man. I still love and respect him, but that is the truth. He cared more about money than me, still to this day though I love him though). I met a kid I knew from junior school Mitch, but his friend Chris and I became friends. Chris was very heavily into marijuana.
So I started getting marijuana friends. Funny story though, the day Chris really got me under the infleunce of marijuana I went to my math final exam and got 90+% my math teacher was so angry, but I can understand why I went to the exam unable to barely stand but I still did great. I apologise if that offended her or anyone on her, its just a true story.
So over time things happended to me in high school, but I made a ton of people friends. Basically, when people looked at me, they were like that smiley basically. Basically nobody wanted to hang out with me because I smelled bad because I didnt shower much, I had a giant fro (because my Birth Father wouldnt pay for me to get hair cuts), and I dressed horrible because, you guessed it, my Birth Father wouldnt buy me proper cltohes but that doesnt matter, The LORD gave me food, water, and clothing so I was fine. OH I forgot to mention, around grade 6 my Birth Mother left my Birth Father and I saw her only every 2 weeks so she would supply me with money and gifts like food and clothes etc.
But a weird thing happended with these people. See they were from different how to say, gangs. Not gangs but like I dont know how to say, personas. Basically Chris was like a typical druggy looking kind of guy but I didnt see him like that, I saw a nice funny guy who was my friend who looked out for me. There was Clucky(yep that was his name) who was a sterotypical wanna be gangster person, but I didnt see that I saw a funny guy who just wanted a girl to really love him... and who also wanted a ton of sex. There was Jordan who was Chris` friend who at first I didnt like, but we ended up having the oddest bond because we were kind of odd rivals in videogames and martial arts (theres an interesting story between me him and his Birth Father if I remember to type it in here or anyone wants to know just ask its really funny).
But basically, these people didnt like me at first glance and there were more of them but I basically just gave an idea that me and these people, without me having the marijuana, wouldnt of hung out with me. But I grew on them. They didnt understand why people didnt like me. I was very nice, I didnt hurt anybody. If anyone had a problem I would try to help them. I was very generous, and I never stole(it was common in where I grew up, I even stole from my Birth Father. I know it was bad I apologise but I was young and was desperate). So they basically realized to not judge people based on how they looked.
Heres the weird part. At first we had like a clique of a few people, 7-8 people who smoked weed together. OVer time, because we let anyone join as long as you were nice and respected each other, we had at least 40+ people. Nobody in the school fought as much anymore. We basically caused a ton of peace throughout the school that used to be so violent theyd shove people in trash cans and push them down the stairs. However when I left (because I had to go to school downtown, long story and this story is long enough) it kind of died down, and the school got taken over by the media`s influence of people. But then it happend, my Birth Father kicked me out.
When my Birth Father kicked me out I couldn`t believe it, I was about to right my final exams in like 2 weeks. Basically he was screwing me over from finishing school. However, I called my Birth Mother and suprising to me(because my Birth Father always called her the anti-christ), she came and picked me up, and moved me to where I live now.
When I moved, I moved to a very, and I mean, VERY evil place. It didn`t SEEM evil, but compared to where I used to live, EVERYBODY was fake. Where I was from, sure people were "rough" so to speak, but they were honest. Where I lived now, everyone acted the EXACT SAME. It was creepy, you couldn`t tell if someone was nice or not because everyone was either fake, or so nice they didn`t notice(aka someone like me).
So at this point in my life, I started believing in God. Because I asked God before I moved, or kind said to God, "I know if I had a second change my life wouldn`t be like this" and I got my second chance. I didn`t know that Jesus was the song of God or anything, but I did respect him for dying on the cross because I thought wow man, that had to hurt.
When I got my job at McDonald`s I smoked a lot more weed, and accidently invited evil in me one night from influences of a videogame (if you want to know the story ask me later because this is getting WAY to big of a post).
However, at McDonald`s a friend, aka my manager named Michael asked me if I knew what the Illuminati was. And I of course didn`t know and shrugged it off. Then another friend of mine asked me about it. And said they control they world etc. Now me being me, I was stubborn and competitive and was like NO WAY im totally going to show this guy hes wrong.
So I did some research, and my mind was blown.
Basically I found out satanists ruled the world and were conspiring to basically kill everybody and bring in a satanic religion to everyone.
Thats when I realized how mind controlled I was and people showed me, mainly on YouTube, that this is all predicted in the Holy Bible.
So at this point in my life I already knew EVERYTHING happens for a reason, and I figured God was showing me this.
That was about 2 years ago.
Then after finding out everything, I started believing. I believe that Jesus was the son of God and died on the cross for our sins, and that God rose him from the dead 3 days later.
Then something awesome happend, we moved again(my mom broke up with her girlfriend at the time). ALSO just sayiing to people who read the earlier thing about the evil, I expelled the evil within me from myself at that house my Birth Mother moved me to and SAW the evil looking at me when I was stoned and in the Garage where I expelled it one day. It was SO scarey, i`ll never forget it. It looked at me so angry, yet it had this like circle around it like it was stuck and couldn`t move. Thank God and Jesus for saving me from that evil demon
So once we moved, and kind of prior to it, I was tempted by evil things and passed. And I kinda wanted my own Holy Bible to read and guess what the LORD did for me. You know whats coming, I got a Holy Bible for free. When we moved my Birth Mother found a Holy Bible that has to be at least 80 years old, it was my Birth Mothers Birth parents Holy Bible. When I opened it I could smell the Holy coming off of it.
So Ive been reading the Holy Bible ever since I got that and been trying to be as Holy as I can be. Ive stopped swearing, I slip every now and then. Stopped masturbating, got myself a fiance who I call my wife already (more on that later), as well as I train almost everyday for God and Jesus, and currently I thank them for every meal and drink I get. Also, I thank God and Jesus for every good thing. So thats a brief, yes a BRIEF overview and as short as I could make my story and how I found God and Jesus.

Questions to Asks Everbody:

1. Is practicing Martial Arts a sin?
I forget who it is but I remember a story in the Holy Bible about a great hunter for The LORD, and someone who just planted plants or something and he tricked the hunter when he was hungry to be under him or something. I thought that meant it was okay for me to practice Martial Arts. I do not wish to inflict any pain on anyone like Jesus said, and as well I primarily use it to protect others, not myself unless I absolutely have to.

2. What is required for marriage for God?
Me and my wife(I call her my wife) have already signed a paper thingy saying we are married, we made it for God well I wrote it she read it and signed it. Is there anything we are missing? We love each other very much, we have sinned a couple times because I didnt know that touching my wife to make her masturbate and her touching me to masturbate me was a sin, but I think it is. Any info on this question and stuff is appreciated.

3. How should I shave my beard according to the Holy Bible?
I recently read a scripture saying to not cut the edges of the beard but some people have said its bad to cut the beard or trim it at ALL. Any answers to this question would be GREATLY appreciated.



Thank for reading this my fellow Brothers and Sisters, I love you very much. Thank you for all the help, I love you very much, not as much as I love my wife of course, and I dont love my wife as much as I love God and Jesus, but thats my heirarchy of love. God and Jesus, then my wife, then everything else in existance. I love you all, God bless.

-David

P.S

I FORGOT TO PUT WHY I DONT GO TO CHURCH DX. First of all, I believe the Sabbath Day is Saturday(tomorrow) because in history Constantine or whatever his name is, who was a Christian bounty hunter, invaded Christianity and made it a law to worship God on the beginning of the week(Sunday) instead of at the end (Saturday). Also, I have heard a lot of bad things about churches, so I choose to just trust my Holy Bible and read it as a fact. I believe everything in the Holy Bible is a fact. I havent read anywhere that it says you have to go to church, but I have no disrespect for those whom go to church. God Bless and I love you all Brothers and Sisters.

The answers to your questions are in the Bible.

This has to be the longest intro in the history of Landover Baptist

TL;DR