• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

Recent content by Tristan Johan

  1. T

    Exploring Christianity

    I agree with this for the most part, although like oi antz I am curious if 1watchman has any inclination to weigh in to provide confirmation, or illuminate any intended aspects of his post that don't really come across as clearly as he might have wanted to. Without anything along those lines...
  2. T

    Exploring Christianity

    You know, this part, separated out from the rest of the text struck me anew. Anyone could easily go to the Depression section of the forums and find Christians suffering from depression and having great difficulty not giving in to despair. And they, Christians, have doubts that God cares; and...
  3. T

    Exploring Christianity

    A couple of things. This place is for seekers to ask hard questions they wrestle with, and an opportunity for Christians to provides answers in the hope that what the seeker finds here will be the key that leads them to God and Jesus. It is not, as far as I understand it, a place for a...
  4. T

    I love Buddhism

    I have found many aspects of Buddhism intriguing, calming, and a source of peace. Not all, mind, there was much that I found pragmatically useful. I would say that as a result, I have Buddhist leanings, without being fully Buddhist. It was particularly telling that I found greater comfort in...
  5. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    RCF, thank you for your post. Out of all the previous posts, I think this one came closest to what I was looking for. I wasn't setting out to attack Christianity, and I wasn't looking for people trying to persuade me that I was wrong in my thinking. I wanted to share my frustrations, without...
  6. T

    How can Christians better understand what a non-theist believes?

    I hope other posters will accord me some leeway here, as some definitions and concepts have come up, some I think are outside the realm of non-theists. Regarding some of these labels: Atheist--strictly speaking, someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God, or put another way: someone...
  7. T

    Christ's second coming -- a new name?

    So, kind of like Steve Baxter from Russell T. Davis's The Second Coming?
  8. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    I'm sorry, but I read it and it still doesn't persuade me that God is trustworthy. Everything about the book is a very poor look at God's character. I reiterate, He modelled the behavior of being Judgemental, made us like Him to some degree, and then treats us like garbage. The argument that...
  9. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    To MyLordMySavior: I was surprised by how quickly I identified the writings from the book of Job. But it's such a disappointment, and I'm very sorry to say that; but the very premise of Job from the get-go is reason enough to be wary of and not place trust in God.
  10. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    This isn't about trust that has been abused. It's about trust that has been placed by faith in a confusing book from which emerges conflicting, argumentative doctrine. We have nothing else. Nothing is what God gives us. Speak for yourself. I'm feeling very dead inside. I never wanted to...
  11. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    Well, He's the one who made Tristan Johan wrong in the first place, with a default destination of Hell. I never wanted to exist, so I'm not grateful for having been constructed as a failure to justify his hope that I can be railroaded by threat of violence into His Mercy system. He started this...
  12. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    A perfectly good reason for never making Satan in the first place. Like we really need something to make the cosmos more confusing. Not a great way to try and work to making sure everyone that can possibly be saved is saved. I'm not going to play a dodgeball game over what we're supposed to...
  13. T

    A Christian friend Sowed the Seed of Doubt

    There are many other reasons why I gave up on God...so many. Almost as if God made a case against himself. But the process was irrevocably started with a couple of conversations with a Christian friend. In one conversation, we were talking about doubts that we had to set aside. And he...
  14. T

    God Doing Everything to Maximize Salvation?

    Okay, in regards to this quote, can you please clarify in your own words what you take this to mean, and how that applies to my OP? Also, if you must include a quote from the Bible, can we steer clear of King James? Or King James that is more straightforward? And to additional replies, I am...
  15. T

    God Doing Everything to Maximize Salvation?

    I'm wanting to probe this question. Do you believe God does everything in his power to make sure that every person possible will be saved through Jesus? Is there a consistent consensus between the different sects of Christianity about this, or are there other lines of thought. Going deeper...
See more
Top Bottom