Maybe next time my attempted troll will be more believable

[endofdays]

I'll get it right. I'm returning to the Lord after backsliding. About 10 years ago I just accepted I was going to go to hell and was going to live it up here on earth. I got tired of feeling like I had lost my salvation by cussing or lusting. It just felt wrong to torture me for slipping up even though I tried so hard and meant well.

On Easter I went to church with my mom and at the end of the skit they actually said my name and that God loves me. I was relieved that there was still hope and God still wanted me as his child. I rededicated my life to the lord when I got home and I have been trying but I just feel so alone and that God is being distant and holding back on me to see if I'm serious.

My pastor said I need to be in the presence of fellow christians to help strengthen and encourage me. This is the third christian forum I've joined today and I'm reaching out to you for your prayers and support. I still struggle with taking the Bible literally but I'm choosing to believe regardless what my gut tells me.

With us being in the end times I feel I have a chance to make it to heaven as time is so short now. If I can just hang on to my faith for a few more years I should be gold in the end. Thank you for the Godly support and encouragement and prayers, I need all the christian support I can muster.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Welcome to the forums, dear. You'll find no other church community that defends belief in the Word of God more so than here at Landover Baptist. What is your favorite Bible verse, dear?

[Zechariah Smyth]

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Two things:

1. Go to both of those other "christian" forums and ask them to point out what Scripture says about homos (you can also ask us). Post the results.

2. Tell us more about yourself and the mindless depravity you are leaving behind...we want to get to know you!

Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

[endofdays]

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Thanks Mary, I prayed that God would lead me to a place of support and encouragement. As a boy I had a plaque on my wall of Jeremiah 29:11 that talks about God having a plan for us to bring about hope and a future so that is probably my favorite. That verse has stuck with me through the years even in my days of sinning.

[endofdays]

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Zechariah, please don't be offended but I find the majority of christians are judgemental so I can already tell you they would say that there going to hell.
from my personal experience people are born that way and if God is gonna torture them for eternity than I just don't know. Issues like this are what caused me to step away. I'm going to focus on the good.

My past is dark and I don't want to glorify it as I'm not proud, rather ashamed. But if you must know I smoked pot and drank alcohol, went to heavy metal concerts and had sex outside of marriage to name a few. Please realize I only did this because I was backslid and was just curious. I know it was wrong and thankfully it has been washed clean by the blood of the lamb.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Zechariah, please don't be offended but I find the majority of christians are judgemental so I can already tell you they would say that there going to hell.
from my personal experience people are born that way and if God is gonna torture them for eternity than I just don't know. Issues like this are what caused me to step away. I'm going to focus on the good.

You're confused, dear. You see, man does not have the authority to change the will of God on any subject. Most other churches will do so for the sake of keeping their pews warm on Sunday morning. At Landover Baptist Church, however, we heed the severe warnings in several places in the Bible concerning any changes that we try to make to God's word. If we pervert the Gospel by changing it, the LORD promises we will be accursed.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:6-9

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Revelation 22:18-19

How much stronger warnings could God give to those who try to make changes to His will, such as trying to protect the sin of left homosexuality by suggesting people are "born that way"? God has said plainly that it is necessary to fear and obey (Ecclesiastes 12:13), not rationalize what feels good.

Why do you seek a church that would ignore the very Word of God just to ease your conscience?

[endofdays]

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Mary, I honor and respect your diligence to the word and realize you are concerned about my eternity but I feel that over time the word has got twisted and mistranslated. I don't think a loving God could condemn his creation to hell based on trivial issues such as geography and sexual preferences.

Don't you think that man has had an agenda and something to gain by twisting scripture? Please don't take this the wrong way as I'm just being honest and open.

[Didymus Much]

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...I don't think a loving God could condemn his creation to hell based on trivial issues such as geography and sexual preferences...

That's true, but we're talking about Jealous, here.

Exodus 34:14 "For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:"

[Basilissa]

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Mary, I honor and respect your diligence to the word and realize you are concerned about my eternity but I feel that over time the word has got twisted and mistranslated. I don't think a loving God could condemn his creation to hell based on trivial issues such as geography and sexual preferences.

Don't you think that man has had an agenda and something to gain by twisting scripture? Please don't take this the wrong way as I'm just being honest and open.

Hello, dear. Do you seriously believe that there is an International Bible Translators' Secret Society which sole purpose of existence is to twist God's word into something that isn't? I mean, there are plenty of translations, and most of them use all of the ancient texts available, yet each and every one of them condemns homosexuality as a sin punishable by death.

[endofdays]

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What about the gospel of Judas?? That never made it in and some speculate Jesus and Judas were lovers.

Jealous?!?! Ughh, how is that even possible- he created us! Besides, if he was jealous then he must have other human emotions such as uncertainty but since he is all knowing that can't be the case. I think the meaning of the word jealousy is being misunderstood here.

[Basilissa]

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What about the gospel of Judas?? That never made it in and some speculate Jesus and Judas were lovers.

The key word here is "speculate." You know, what happens when you assume, right? You end up making an ASS of U and ME.

Jealous?!?! Ughh, how is that even possible- he created us! Besides, if he was jealous then he must have other human emotions such as uncertainty but since he is all knowing that can't be the case. I think the meaning of the word jealousy is being misunderstood here.

Genesis 1:27.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Mary, I honor and respect your diligence to the word and realize you are concerned about my eternity but I feel that over time the word has got twisted and mistranslated.

How hard would it be for Almighty God to step in and prevent that from happening, especially when He has promised to preserve His Word (Psalm 12:6-7, Isaiah 40:8, Matthew 24:35)?

I don't think a loving God could condemn his creation to hell based on trivial issues such as geography and sexual preferences.

A loving God could do so to show His love for His elect:

[Romans 9:19-24 KJV] 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Jealous?!?! Ughh, how is that even possible- he created us! Besides, if he was jealous then he must have other human emotions such as uncertainty but since he is all knowing that can't be the case. I think the meaning of the word jealousy is being misunderstood here.

Then please explain to us the correct understanding and how you know what it is.

[endofdays]

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I'm going for a walk to think about all of this and clear my head. To be honest I'm feeling a bit discouraged right now and quite frankly feelings are resurfacing of why I decided I would rather go to hell than spend eternity in heaven with christians. I've walked the dark side and the light and the dark is way more accepting and FUN. If God made me to burn then so be it- I will accept my fate like a man because closed minded christians for eternity sounds more hellish than anything I could encounter in hell.

Sorry, I had to vent- I will keep trying to live for the Lord but I feel so discouraged...

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

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Mary, I honor and respect your diligence to the word and realize you are concerned about my eternity but I feel that over time the word has got twisted and mistranslated. I don't think a loving God could condemn his creation to hell based on trivial issues such as geography and sexual preferences.

Don't you think that man has had an agenda and something to gain by twisting scripture? Please don't take this the wrong way as I'm just being honest and open.

The devil has now entered your heart as he has you denying the all-encompassing authority of the Holy Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:16-17; I Thess. 5:27; Psalm 119:89) in an effort to justify your sinful lifestyle.

If you want hell, then just keep walking the faithless, excuse-making path you are currently walking. That way, you won't have to concern yourself with embracing Jesus Christ as He transforms you into the new Man of Faith you should be (James 2:24; John 8:12; 2 Cor. 5:7,10,17). It's your choice.

Pastor Ed