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    Goodbye

    I've had enough of this forum. It's just constant arguing and debating. No one can agree on anything and everyone is so holier than thou. We're called to love and support each other in our walk with God, not create debates so we can show off how much more we know than everyone else. It's a...
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    What's Our Relationship With God Like?

    So you're saying that we must do no work whatsoever? Because Jesus sacrificed himself, we now need to do nothing and allow God to work it out for us? Because that's what I'm gathering. Jesus died to open the way for our salvation. His death did not secure our salvation. That part is up to us. If...
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    What's Our Relationship With God Like?

    I don't really like either of these options. The first implies that our obedience comes from a selfish desire to be saved and not out of love for God. The second implies that we are higher than God, requiring him to lower himself in order to save us. God humbled himself in the form of Jesus...
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    Is masturbation a sin?

    As a person who struggles with masturbation, I was once in your shoes. I tried to justify it and tell myself that it was okay. And here's the thing: for some people, it might be. If you are able to touch without lustful thoughts or feelings, then maybe, maybe it isn't a sin. For me...
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    I Am Not Afraid

    It's hard to need something so badly, to feel so very desperate and to only be able to beg God to deliver. It's hard to be down here while He's up there, feeling so very far away. It's even harder to just let go and trust that He's got it. Sometimes I start to feel like He's forgotten me or...
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    Im trying to see if i really am paranoid schizophrenic or if this is real.

    As nonaeroterraqueous said, there's no way that a camera injected into you would be able to see anything. If it could still see something, then you'd be able to find it on the surface of your skin. There's no camera and you aren't being monitored. I promise.
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    Hi i am a paranoid schizophrenic and i have a question.

    As someone who occasionally suffers from paranoid delusions, I can understand what this feels like. I'm sorry you're feeling like this and I promise that it's not real. First of all, why would your family put a camera inside of you? Why would the whole world want to watch YOU die? What's so...
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    Cocaine addiction

    While it's necessary that you continue to seek God in this situation and pray, it's also necessary that you get medical help.
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    Brain injuries and salvation

    I'm confused as to why this proves that free will is an illusion. I have a personality disorder that makes me erratic at times. I have no real stable sense of self and yet I still am free and able to choose to follow Christ. These people you are describing still have the ability to change their...
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    Should Christians Obey the Old Testament Dietary Laws....

    I think that this comes down to personal preference. Personally, my body does better on a vegan, mostly fruit and vegetable based diet. Meat and dairy make me sick. But I have a friend who flourishes on a meat based diet. It really depends on the person. Additionally, pork may have been healthy...
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    Anxiety

    I recently left my church of over 10 years. It's been a great experience and I love the new church I'm attending. But tonight I am planning on going to their young adult group for the first time. I have never attended a youth group or young adult group other than the one that was at my old...
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    Where is Jesus?

    God's time is completely different from our time. One day to us could be a thousand years to Him or one single minute. We don't know. He operates on a different level than we do. Additionally, why do we think we have the authority or the right to know when He's going to carry out His plans...
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    Now this makes sense.

    There's such a variety of things that cause bad behavior that it's hard to pin it down on any specific thing like income. I have a family member, for example, who comes from a fairly well-off home and yet is the worst behaved person I have ever met. And her dad is a pastor! It all depends on...
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    Dating a non-virgin. Need some encouragement

    Well first let me say that I know lots of very Godly couples where one or both of them had a sexual experience with someone else before marriage. And it doesn't diminish their love for each other or their devotion to God. So you can get past this! Second, you recognize that Satan is attacking...
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    Trapped

    I have heard all the clichés, read all the verses, prayed all the prayers. That isn't what I need. What I need is a serious life overhaul to be free from this sexual sin. I am stuck in a loop, convinced over and over again by Satan to keep giving in. For even though I desperately want to be...
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