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My sister is a hopeless drug addict and probably a sociopath, and my Dad has dementia. She is manipulating the ever-living hell out of him. She has been spending $3000 to $5000 dollars a month on his credit card for years. It has been estimated that he has spent a million dollars on her...

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Is belief alone enough to save you? I can think of bible verses that support either conclusion. My sister said she believes Jesus died for her sins. But I don't believe she's ever repented to God. She's almost certainly a drug addict, and is abusive to her husband. I overheard that her...

But now I'm glad that it happened! My wife is so much better for me than that girl! anyway, if someone told me they don't like me the same way, I probably wouldn't pursue them further. I would think it more likely that God would bring me someone else than to change that person's feelings. I...

I don't know what God is telling you but I know that He promised me a wife at a time when I didn't think I could ever be married. I had to go through some suffering, but it turned out better than I could have hoped. There was a scripture that I came to feel was just for me. In the story of...

You don't have to know. if you are offended, simply stay out of my thread from now on. I am married to my wife, not a husband. If I thought there were no in betweens and I could only read religious material, I would probably walk away from God yet again, even though I've just come back in the...

Again, marriage is honorable in all. Yes, I even believe it is okay for a husband and wife to enjoy anything together, even what you call trash. I don't want you to send me anything and I'm sure you know that, and you probably also know that you don't have anything productive to add.

okay, yes, I have just recently started praying for my family again. I am not exactly a pillar of faith here, I have schizophrenia and much of the time it seems I'm barely hanging on by my fingernails. Only just the other day I decided to start going to church again. Before that I was sure I...

the Bible says, "Marriage is honorable in all, and the marriage bed is not defiled." Even trashy magazines are okay in the context of a marriage. Again, no offense is meant. Responses from people not interested in judging me are welcome.

no way, what I'm saying explicitly is that I don't want to confront her; nobody does.

no the choice is not mine because she has already refused treatment. as for confronting evil, have you ever heard the phrase "you break it, you buy it"? What I mean is, I know from experience that exorcism is terribly traumatic, and introducing someone to the spirit-world that way, at once...

does it have to be one extreme or the other? No offense is meant

I very tentatively agree with briareos.

yeah, I'm not looking for more religious material. I think about religion pretty much 24/7, and I want a break. Like I said, I know this isn't the ideal forum to ask this, but I'm getting desperate. I will ask my psychiatrist next time I see him, but that isn't until January.

yeah that sounds pretty good but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if she needs an exorcism. I have considered that at length. Early in my Christian walk, I was warned never to confront in someone a spirit not of God. I'll probably give her my church's literary journal when it is published...

okay, point taken. This is reminding me of my sister. She's really bad, almost certainly a drug addict and abusive to her husband. But no one is going to say anything to her about sin because everyone is afraid of her. The only conversation I've ever had with her about it she indicated in...

oh well, the poster was just asking our opinions and I personally am not wise enough to discern if someone isn't a Christian when they say they are. Sin isn't the same for everybody. For me, I think if I start thinking that a person isn't a Christian when they say they are, I probably will...

I haven't read much of anything in a long time, and I want to start reading again. I have chosen this as a topic of interest. Fiction or nonfiction. I know this isn't really a Christianity-related question, but I have a growing desire to read and learn about this and I don't know where to...

I will always take someone at their word that they are a Christian and believe it would be wrong not to. Jesus said, "All that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."

I have thought the same thing many times in the past. I really doubt you have committed the unpardonable sin. I have thought that too. I am praying for you. Just hang in there and others will come along and help too. Even if you did nothing to advance His kingdom I believe you would still...