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  1. BenFTW

    The sin of refusing sex

    “Lord, heal my sex drive.” ✨Miracle✨ 😅
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    Distraction v Indulgence.

    This is the other side of the coin, in contrast to my post. There is truth in what I said, but then there is also the perspective of time management (or in the case of this post, what you’re filling your mind with; the content of what you’re consuming). Where TV was your kryptonite, gaming was...
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    How We Can Tell If We Possess The Agape of God

    The way you wrote this is comical. It’s as if you’re taking us through the thought process of how you perceive people will be reading your post and coming to an epiphany. 😆 This I will say. Reading Matthew 24 in its entirety makes you want to make sure that you will not be taking a “portion...
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    The high cost of "Not trusting in God" (Num 13:1-15:41)

    This part really spoke to me, especially what I put in bold. Even though the Lord made the promise and knows the outcome, we still go through the process of it’s attainment. I relate to this, as I am learning the guitar. I feel as though I have plateaued, but the Lord told me to learn (He showed...
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    Distraction v Indulgence.

    Is self-indulgence inherently sinful? Did not the Son of Man come eating and drinking? Matthew 11:19 King James Version 19 The 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...
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    what IS faith?

    I would say that lacking faith is lacking assurance, which can be the result of doubt and disbelief in achieving the desired end. This can creep in when we get our eyes off of the promise and on ourselves, or rather off of the promise maker (God). It would seem that at times all of reality is a...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    I would say, having dealt with and dealing with the two (anger and depression) that obviously they are not of God. They do not come from God and God would have us above them. He would not forsake us for them, but instead we should understand why we feel as we do. For example, is our anger...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    There are surely judgmental Christians and I too have pondered, ‘cause of certain beliefs (say they are a professing Christian who is a liberal Democrat) if someone is a genuine believer. How can they reconcile the two world views? They seem diametrically opposed to one another. But yeah, I...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    There really is no subjectivity to being a child of God. Either you are or you aren’t, haha. Yes how people define a true Christian may differ, but objectively we have scripture as the standard to give us the tenets of the faith. When I say a “real Christian” I am not judging the heart of...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    That is not a fair depiction of what I said and yet you keep repeating it. 😕 She mentioned dating men who justified pornography as natural and therefore perfectly normal to entertain in their daily lives (with the implication that she should just accept it). This is like an alcoholic saying...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    I’m sorry that is the way you have interpreted my posts. But I do know at times that has been my response, but understand that I am not someone who dates. So of course my perspective will be different and your stories can be jarring. I am not asking you to justify your world view or experience...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    You can extrapolate whatever you want Lynx, but that’s not what I am saying. I think you may be offended on behalf of Seoul for no reason. I am simply offering conversation that may prove beneficial. Also I wasn’t bringing that verse up (as a solution), but addressing its misuse. 🙃
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    Or... hear me out... I go to a church with.... real Christians. 😅 I don’t think I have ever in my 31 years of life (today is my birthday lol) met a genuine believer justifying their sin as opposed to painting it as a struggle. “It’s hard” is different from “its natural.” What things have I said...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    Thank you for the thorough walkthrough there and I am sorry that you’ve gone through that stuff Seoulsearch. I just didn’t understand what you meant by a consolation prize in respect to everything else and what you were up against. I hope you dropped those... “Christians” like hot potatoes 🥔...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    Can you explain this further? It sounds to me like you don’t see your own value. Or is this having something to do with being a “trophy?”
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    Scripture says to “reckon yourself dead to sin and alive unto God.” It says you are a slave of righteousness and not sin. But I hear you saying you are an addict of sin. Are you enslaved or do you just believe you are and for that reason you’re stuck? You’ve gotta renew your mind to God’s truth...
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    For the People Who Champion Lifetime Singleness - What's Your Advice for Dealing with Single Sexuality?

    My church has addressed that verse recently and people really need to look at the context. It is for widows and the unmarried and it is simply saying if they do desire intimacy and marriage then pursue it. There is no clause here of urgency. It is better to marry than to burn with desire. No...
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    Know God and Live Love

    A poor man is one who could own the entire world and not know God. The accumulation of riches has its place in the distribution of wealth for every good work but if a man forfeits his soul for the world his poverty is greater than his wealth. This too is true. A silver spoon can never replace...
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    I'm wanting to pick a man's brain on a subject

    I would think that a great prayer for men would be contentment. That they would have peace. They carry a burden of responsibility, as God has entrusted to them a wife and children. I guess a sense of “all is well.” You know not their struggles emotionally and so pray for their comfort in what...
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    Does Paul agree with David about the law as in Psalm 119?

    So what you are saying is... bacon is permissible? 🥓 😄 I have found in this discussion, people find it hard to isolate themselves from the Law because of the moral law aspect of it. Sin is sin, period. Is how people see it. So when people start suggesting we aren’t under the Law, they feel that...