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    How can I get closer to God?

    My relationship with Christ has been somewhat nonexistent of late. A lot of things have happened regarding church, scripture and other Christians in which I'll spare you the details of. To cut things short, I really don't know who God is anymore. I blame it mainly on the callous actions of other...
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    Can I still be a Christian?

    The question itself is vague, but what I'm asking is whether or not I can still remain a Christian if I can't attend church or read the Bible anymore. The reason in which I can't go to church is just due to the fact that there's only one church in my local area, and the people there have caused...
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    Afraid of God

    It may seem a little odd for a Christian to be scared of his/her creator, but I guess oddities do occur from time to time. To be honest, nothing scares me more than Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit. I fear them more than anything in this world for countless reasons. This includes judgement, the...
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    All the wrong things

    My Christian walk has come under heavy fire from the enemy of late. From uncontrollable bursts of anger to lust that is hard to manage, I've literally fallen off the deep end of my faith and plunged into a world of doubt, fear, uncertainty and apathy. My biggest problem currently is the fact...
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    Is this what a Christian is meant to be like?

    I've been analysing Christians and their behaviour of late to see if there are certain actions/attitudes/notions etc to determine if someone is truly in Christ or not. In saying that, I put my two cents in and commented on a homosexual Christian's video...
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    Proclivity to sin

    I don't really know what to do at the moment, so I thought this site would most likely give me the most reliable advice. Well, long story short, I'm a pretty avid sinner. Whether it's lust, envy, anxiety, anger, sorrow or some other sort of sin/thing i should let God deal with, I fail miserably...
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    Not believing in love

    I presume that you already know my stance on love from the title. I'm asking this question because I don't know if I, a Christian, can still be considered a Christian for not believing in love. Instead, I believe that all love and altruism have a selfish/self-centred root, and that it is not in...
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    Punishable by Death

    As most Christians would know, there are a lot of verses in the Bible that deal with punishment for sin, in which we all know there are sins punishable by death. What I want to know is this: should those who have committed these sins still be considered worthy of death even though some may be...
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    Despair in impasse

    As someone who is trying to be closer with Christ, I've recently realised that I wasn't a Christian due to living in a sinful lifestyle. But even now, I fear that I will never be at that standard that Jesus wants me to be. No matter how hard I try, I always fall into temptation and then sin...
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    Christian violence

    I thought I might as well share this issue here due to my measures being too extreme. Anyway, I was threatened by a Christian that I was serving food to at church. Long story short, I was avoiding him due to him being an older person of the church that thought of me as someone that was...
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    How to deal with hatred

    I've been having a bit of trouble of late dealing with people from my church. I kind of got mad at the fact that a lot of inappropriate things were happening in my young adults group, so I left it and ever since then members of the group have acted cold against me. Long story short, it's gotten...
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    God Hates me

    My faith is literally on death's door after succumbing to the notion that my creator, keeper and closest thing I have to a father could possibly hate me. Though naive, I've always seen God as one of eternal love, joy and mercy. But in saying this, my world was shattered when I finally took note...
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    Reaching for Him

    I've been stooped in all sorts of sin of late that I've been struggling to get away from. My relationship with Christ is on the rocks and everything related to my spirituality is fading. I don't know what I;m doing that's so wrong that makes God ignore me. I find myself forsaking sin and then...
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    Blasphemy and intrusive thoughts

    I've been scaring myself silly with my thoughts of late. I constantly have OCD thoughts against the blessed Holy Spirit. I may nor have said anything against him, nor have had thought anything directly at him, but I've come close. I'm honestly scared about blaspheming him. I don't know what to...
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    Is suicide truly an unforgivable sin?

    I've been studying sins that have no forgiveness to them and there's been a lot of discussion about suicide. Personally, I believe it is unforgivable due to the fact that a person can't repent of it, but at the same time I believe that Jesus's sacrifice covers us. Besides, if that wasn't the...
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    Am I responsible?

    My scrupulosity has been really bad lately, even to the point where my methods of controlling my thoughts practically fail me altogether. I've had a really noticeable form of OCD since I first found out about the eternal sin 3-4 years ago. Now, it's out of control. I can't eat, sleep, or even go...
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    Should I still go to this church?

    I'm currently leaving my old church (We fought and they refuse to forgive me for trivial things, i.e. using Bible verses against them etc.) and I found another church (a baptist one. I currently attend a pentecostal one, the non-crazy kind) that I find to be quite inviting. However, they don't...
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    Should I leave my church?

    For the past year or so I've been attending this church that initially seemed pretty nice. I'm highly jovial and hyperactive by nature, and I easily hit it off with most members. However, after a dispute in regards to different beliefs in doctrine (i.e. I believe that obedience is key, while...
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    Should I leave my church?

    For the past year or so I've been attending this church that initially seemed pretty nice. I'm highly jovial and hyperactive by nature, and I easily hit it off with most members. However, after a dispute in regards to different beliefs in doctrine (i.e. I believe that obedience is key, while...
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    Edge of faithlessness.

    My faith has died down of late, to the point where I don't know why I'm even a Christian anymore. No matter what I do, I always fall back into sin. The members of my church pretend I don't exist (I don't talk much, mainly 'cause I share no interests with any of them) leading to little to no...