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I am watching One Piece. I am almost caught up w/ the dub. It is AMAZING.Anime. Anime will help you forget. Not really, but it's better than nothing....
Heh. I'm trying to make a funny while suffering from depression myself. Sorry. Humor is how I cope. So here's a dumb meme to maybe make you laugh for a second or two.
I know what you mean. I think the same a lot. Minus the going to hell & suffering for eternity bit. I fell confident I'm not going to hell. But I've said in the past, I actually don't think that's eternal. Hell AKA Hades & the evil in it is thrown into he lake of fire in the end times.I am feeling very bad right now spiritually and emotionally. I feel like I almost don't want to be part of existence at all right now, I feel like I am either a slave to the force of good or evil without a way out option, like I have to make one of two mutually exclusive choices against my will. If I give into temptation and choose to knowingly betray the standards of God, I go to Hell and suffer for eternity. Yet if I don't take any self-initiative and follow God I may never get what I desire either for now or for eternity. It is a dead-end to me. And God doesn't want to just wipe out or reverse the factors and trends in this society making it hard or impossible to fulfill my chosen desire in a God-friendly way.
Especially since we are on the brink of War with Russia or China, I am getting more anxious about wanting to find somebody.
People say that having opposite-gender bonds and reproduction is a condition only in this life and that when we get to Heaven (assuming that's where any of us go instead of Hell) that part of our life is going to be nullified or abolished because everything would be perfect. If God wanted a plan where everything and everyone was perfect, he could have not created earth at all and just made us in Heaven instead of being born in this world, and get to grow up and experience the pain of things never fulfilled, having this futile attraction to members of the opposite sex. It is useless. God could have also made humans reproduce asexually or made humans completely by himself without other humans if planned, but here we are.
As hard as that is about marriage possibly going away, isn't that wonderful the desire of earthly passions could be gone? Isn't being free of the desire just as good as having the desire fulfilled?Especially since we are on the brink of War with Russia or China, I am getting more anxious about wanting to find somebody.
People say that having opposite-gender bonds and reproduction is a condition only in this life and that when we get to Heaven (assuming that's where any of us go instead of Hell) that part of our life is going to be nullified or abolished because everything would be perfect. If God wanted a plan where everything and everyone was perfect, he could have not created earth at all and just made us in Heaven instead of being born in this world, and get to grow up and experience the pain of things never fulfilled, having this futile attraction to members of the opposite sex. It is useless. God could have also made humans reproduce asexually or made humans completely by himself without other humans if planned, but here we are.
I was pondering the passages in Mark & Matthew where Jesus discusses this yesterday. I'm not too familiar w/ End Times theories, but "At the time of the resurrection" stood out to me. That could be a very different spot from the New Earth we are given for eternity in the very very end. The resurrection of the dead? Jesus's return resurrection? Perhaps he is talking about one of those times & in the New Earth there will still be sexual intimacy and/or marriage.I wouldn't know if I want anything to do with God if he created such a thing that is so pleasurable and great down here and then disestablish it when we cross over into the next world to come. And it is unfair that some people get to be married and have kids on this earth but others have to remain perpetually single, and not have this unique wonderful experience. Is this one thing that the devil has destroyed that God can not restore? If so, then the devil has succeeded.
Add to this it is becoming more challenging or impossible to find and satiate a desire for an emotional and physical connection without sinning, so we are faced to either sexually sin or remain perpetually celibate involuntarily for our whole life here, and neither do we get to experience and live it in Heaven?
Do most believers have any idea how this "no sex or marriage in Heaven" seems so unfair to some people? My spirit is very discouraged about this.
Spiritual bodies have different pleasures than animal bodies.I wouldn't know if I want anything to do with God if he created such a thing that is so pleasurable and great down here and then disestablish it when we cross over into the next world to come.
Its not about fair or unfair. We all have some given things from God. We cannot have all the same gifts, because each of us has a unique purpose.And it is unfair that some people get to be married and have kids on this earth but others have to remain perpetually single, and not have this unique wonderful experience
Its not about fair or unfair. We all have some given things from God. We cannot have all the same gifts, because each of us has a unique purpose.
Do all people have cars? Do all people have sons? Do all people have parents? Do all people have siblings? Etc.
Understand we're given different gifts: example being single has allowed me freedoms a married man wouldn't have, but I would think if someone worked at it enough they could at least get friendzoned or even go on a date or two. Unfortunately singles who struggle w/ dating tend to get the advice of 'suck it up' but other struggles is it's 'you are who you want to be.'Spiritual bodies have different pleasures than animal bodies.
Its not about fair or unfair. We all have some given things from God. We cannot have all the same gifts, because each of us has a unique purpose.
Do all people have cars? Do all people have sons? Do all people have parents? Do all people have siblings? Etc.
Dating and marriage are overrated. In this century in western countries there are not many reasons to date or to get married.Understand we're given different gifts: example being single has allowed me freedoms a married man wouldn't have, but I would think if someone worked at it enough they could at least get friendzoned or even go on a date or two. Unfortunately singles who struggle w/ dating tend to get the advice of 'suck it up' but other struggles is it's 'you are who you want to be.'
What does singleness have to do with Satan? Dating is a modern concept, people did not date century ago.And society is pretty awful today. So many men are even checking out of the dating market and giving up all together. So Satan has almost won. I wonder if the early church people ever imagined this scenario today.
I was pondering the passages in Mark & Matthew where Jesus discusses this yesterday. I'm not too familiar w/ End Times theories, but "At the time of the resurrection" stood out to me. That could be a very different spot from the New Earth we are given for eternity in the very very end. The resurrection of the dead? Jesus's return resurrection? Perhaps he is talking about one of those times & in the New Earth there will still be sexual intimacy and/or marriage.
Do not despair, friend. Personally, I'd rather see the flesh conquered but maybe there is room for it somewhere down the line. We are given new bodies after all (bodies are good therefore) & Adam & Eve even before the Fall were created male & female. I can't see something so intregal to the whole race & considered good by God just being wiped out. There's got to be something.
Also "like the angels in heaven". But we know from Genesis part of the reason for the Flood was b/c the 'sons of God' (traditionally angels) were lusting after ' 'daughters of men' (traditionally women).
Do you at least get to meet singles? What are your experiences w/ it lately?If people keep insisting to me that "there will be no [X] in Heaven because we will no longer need/desire it and everything will be perfect" then I say that I am content and enjoy my mediocrity as a being.
I didn't meet singles that much. All I have mostly is my place of work.Do you at least get to meet singles? What are your experiences w/ it lately?
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