Despair Over the Future
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You are going into areas that are certainly worth exploring, but the answers you find will never satisfy you if you don't first begin with God and His motivation.
You are clearly dissatisfied with the answers you have found to this point, I'm merely trying to give you an alternate look.
You are clearly dissatisfied with the answers you have found to this point, I'm merely trying to give you an alternate look.
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I did originally begin with God and his motivation. And it didn't satisfy me. To return to my analogy, no matter how much good I did in the world, if I knew a worldwide bomb was gonna go off, and I had a button in front of me to press to turn it off, but didn't, I would be labeled a war criminal, and rightly so. I would be hated, and rightly so. I would be blamed for the deaths and suffering of millions, and rightly so.
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Your analogy fails with God for a number of reasons. You rightly say that if you did those things you would be culpable. But you are a created being subject to a higher power. God is free of culpability because He has noone to answer to.
Secondly, God is not to blame for the actions of others anymore than you are. Third, God never acts outside of His attributes. In fact, it is impossible for Him to do so.
Secondly, God is not to blame for the actions of others anymore than you are. Third, God never acts outside of His attributes. In fact, it is impossible for Him to do so.
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I agree with that to a very large degree. For example, when I entered the world of dating, I found myself constantly being encouraged to let go of my "christian principles" about behavior. The girls were very eager to take the relationship into the bedroom; and I was ridiculed for standing up for what I believed in. It would have been easier to give in, and just do what the girls wanted me to do, and I'd probably be married now with a bunch of children running around the living room. Instead, I stood up for what I was taught as a Christian, and the girls said "okay, if you won't do it with me, then you don't love me, goodbye". So here I am, alone, and lonely. Did I do the right thing? If I did, then why do I have nothing but loneliness?
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The victim mentality syndrome does not impress God and being sorry for yourself is pathetic before God who gave up his only begotten Son for you.
We are living in the days where the wicked and lost will become more wickeder and more sinful (killing one another) as God turns his back on this soon to be destroyed generation. Only those whose names are written in the book of life will be saved.
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If I may offer something that helped me.
Until we are satisfied in God, no relationship will prove satisfying. We were made to find our satisfaction in God. When we don't find it in Him, our longings don't go away. We merely look for substitutes to find our satisfaction. Since only God can truly satisfy, these substitutes will fail. In relationships this is particularly harmful because we are in effect asking another to do something only God can do. We remain unsatisfied and we tend to blame the other person for their failure to meet our needs. This is why so many people are in unhappy relationships and marriages fail.
Psalm 23 is about finding in God all we need...The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall NOT WANT.
Until we are satisfied in God, no relationship will prove satisfying. We were made to find our satisfaction in God. When we don't find it in Him, our longings don't go away. We merely look for substitutes to find our satisfaction. Since only God can truly satisfy, these substitutes will fail. In relationships this is particularly harmful because we are in effect asking another to do something only God can do. We remain unsatisfied and we tend to blame the other person for their failure to meet our needs. This is why so many people are in unhappy relationships and marriages fail.
Psalm 23 is about finding in God all we need...The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall NOT WANT.
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Fact of the matter though is not everyone is satisfied with God, however hard we try or whatever we do. I tried it all. I did it all. And I ended up with nothing. There are plenty of people who are satisfied without God. To say they aren't is to delude yourself.
I'm sorry but I find the Bible to be full of overinflated promises. We live in the modern world and we need modern solutions. We don't need to hear, "Well, Paul did this." We're not Paul. We're ourselves. We all have different experiences.
I'm sorry but I find the Bible to be full of overinflated promises. We live in the modern world and we need modern solutions. We don't need to hear, "Well, Paul did this." We're not Paul. We're ourselves. We all have different experiences.
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