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In response to orthodox making videos of condemnation of other Christian’s to accuse that as an evil of ecumenism I have this to say.

The Orthodox Church is not made by God but allowed by God which God told people not to call anyone else teacher as it would be against His mission and Paul showed the truth those who followed it seek to attack the body of Christ witness to world some on purpose and Jesus says woe to one who causes others to stumble and those who do Paul says to consider them accursed if they seek to do on purpose the Orthodox Church seeks to exclude men from salvation to teach the need for sacraments which people may not be able to have and also seeks to make stumbling block to seek to make salvation out of the reach of many who follow the church to make it impossible for some who follow church to be saved by teaching things not all can now follow or perhaps none can for they do not have one path but every one of them thinks another path is right to follow another teacher a saint. To do so willingly to put burdens is adding to the word of God that God judges.

but bible says you have an anointing and do not need that anyone teach you but teaches you truth concerning all things

God will be witnessing to world to stop such worship which is worship of demons and idolatry
 
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I don’t believe in the claim of those churches who believe God created them as only true church to follow it as if person has no chance to see priest he can not be saved and even if one had chance but he did not he may want the sacraments but it would be impossible in time to get it and some Orthodox Church people exclude though it may not be what church taught to not get from church fathers and Catholic Church says baptism by desire is enough but then there would not be need for church and there is no point to enter it because even if you did not enter it when it was available as long as you were wishing to before you died you can be saved though if you were not doing your best to go to church to find out you are not seeking to and you can die at any time while you are not seeking to so I suppose they think one should. But I do not believe it is even scriptural and orthodox can claim to be too.

If I wanted to follow churches I could follow Orthodox Church also I don’t know it is only church that Catholic could be true church but what it teaches now is not true I don’t believe only followers of pope forgives sins for God said none of you shall seek position of leadership where one is given authority to rule but to be servant that person in position if he chose him is not to actually make him rule as head of church so that others were not given equal authority needing to be subject to him to derive their authority from him but only chosen to be able to teach the faith that other apostles should agree and if it was required to go to others to obtain forgiveness other apostles can too but Jesus meant the apostles to be able to judge whether person deserves forgiveness for sins if they accepted gospel and repented and to make proper judgement of matters to be able to know how to lay the foundations of the church according to teachings of Christ and to make judgement concerning matters in early church for sake of spreading gospel in beginning by giving them the Holy Spirit

I know I could follow Catholic Church to accept it incase to accept the church incase though it could be wrong and God accepts orthodox too but I will not follow either as I believe it is wrong to put stumbling block to exclude people who can’t go to church that he cares about ritual and not one heart to receive Him at anytime to doubt God justice that He looks to one heart and not whether person just accepted church doctrine so that He would accept anyone to be saved only if he accepted church doctrine though there is nothing all different if person could not get to church probably church could say you may not have chance to even seek to join church later if you do not do what you can now to join church to have ability to follow Christ but I don’t believe God favours and supports such judgement exclusion to not give grace to all or is pleased with the church that it represents Him or He would have shown all believers what is true church to not make stumbling blocks from people coming to Christ.
 
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I decided I do not plan to get married but I decided to follow Orthodox Church for I am not sure people accept and I preferred revival for people to accept others and to be clear how to follow

Also as others may think I am wrong to not respect as misleading people
I think though it is probably not required but I think to join incase

I do not know perhaps Catholic is church but it accepted Orthodox before but I am not sure so I will follow Orthodox Church.

I believe as long as one seeks to join church they are accepted but if you are not seeking now you may die while you are not seeking to and to seek now allows you ability to follow and it is risky if you don’t join church to be baptised and have communion because you may die at any time while you are not seeking to not have opportunity to seek.
 
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I might not get married and I find no one but I won’t let it consume me anymore to be bothered I will focus on finding opportunities to work to have opportunity to have something to give more to others and to use to serve in preaching gospel and have hobbies and learn skills by which I can teach others to interact with others and to preach and to see if I can find any skill I can be good at on the side if I can be professional and successful in that way to teach and preach when I am able to successfully show I can achieve great success in field to make some achievements whether it makes more money or not
 
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I do not have hope for people to not be loving and accepting but to always be harsh and demand more to never be enough to never be clear when is enough all that is necessary I don’t find acceptance from them so I do not trust them I give up trusting them so I will not and follow the Orthodox Church to focus only on my relationship with Christ. If I see great change revival to find God allowed for it for them to change I will accept them but I won’t trust them anymore.

Jordan Peterson rejection

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This reel also makes it seem society is trying to promote such harshness and they know what they are doing so I do not think there is much hope so I don’t think I should follow what I did anymore
 
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I do not believe I should let others actions cause me to be discouraged and I should not follow that path to not stumble others if showing not care for truth to focus on what is important so people repent because church I believe is not true and not helpful as bible says God is not worshiped through mens hands as though He needed anything.

Because I now know going to church does not help much because I do not need it as bible says I have no need that anyone teach for I know now it would not be right to tell others they need it because it is not right because it makes that you can not follow Jesus without going to church which you can never know if you did enough and whether you can know way without going without knowing how much you need to and you may lose opportunity to.

If others are worried they can go to church if they think they need it but I do not think it is necessary and that I should be distracted with what I do not believe is true to be helpful on what is important.
 
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I believe history shows the Catholic Church was taught from early and potentially is from beginning and we can’t know it is not true perhaps pope was given authority to lead for church to be built on him but he did not have authority over others but for them to accept what he teaches whenever it is true and as he has the keys they need to receive authority to forgive sins through him. It might have taught orthodoxy is accepted early but I don’t know so I think I should follow Catholic Church. I believe people should as I think it is church from beginning as it is only church which makes salvation possible for all to be saved now if you are seeking to accept it to join to take part in sacraments if you have been sufficiently instructed in the faith to acknowledge you really know the faith to accept you to. Actually I learned that the catechism delay is only for those who do not know if they will accept the faith to know truth but others can join if they accept it.

people who never could make a decision are not judged they will have chance in world to come but I think it might be required to join now.
 
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I decided I will not follow church because I can not force others to change that they should themselves and believe it is right to trust in God justice and I believe scripture is clear that Jesus is saviour of world that anyone can be saved to repent to seek to that all have sinned and fallen short of glory of God and we are justified freely by His grace. It is important to preach that to focus on that as people must repent for it is the truth and people must follow and I should not make distractions though people have no excuse not to follow because they can follow what they believe but they have no excuse not to follow that Jesus has warned that He will come as thief so people have to be ready. If others are worried they can follow church.
 
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I could follow the orthodox church but I believe it is not right that I should not make divisions that the first church it could seem to be orthodox church because Jesus said greatest is he who serves so he made them equal and gave them all the power to forgive sins as church thinks though I believe Jesus meant the ability to judge matters to be able to establish the church where they are to help make others know their authority to teach for sake to grow church and to lay foundations of church and as paul said in nothing am I behind the eminent apostles and as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:2 Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? He would not have said that if it was important to acknowledge one person as leader it might seem though he could mean we do not follow any leader though there is positions in church a head to have different role to be able to teach what is faith but one should not think only those who have been baptised by such are accepted as it is one church or that only those who have been baptised by Peter are part of church but all belong to church. When he gave peter the keys it meant he would have a job of introducing gospel to people. Though orthodox church one could accept to be true it may not have judged catholic church that they were also part of church because they receive apostolic succession and do not know their doctrines are not true that it has not been proven so they are though their doctrines are not true but now people judge. Though I know since one does not know incase it is not truth one should follow orthodox belief and leave that to God not to know.
 
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Unless I see other Christian’s truly practicing the faith to visit others to go to church and seek to help them to be able to unless I found a good church I am not going to follow such churches to trust them but I am going to accept the Orthodox Church to follow it.
 
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I wanted to follow Orthodox Church because I was not received by others to be cared so didn’t trust and thought because of such if it does not support it may not be true so I should join church which I believed I should accept Orthodox Church as I believed I should if they say it is true and I do not know to show I am not against them for them to receive me but they did not seem to accept me so I thought to follow Catholic Church but I believe it is not just to follow either church and I should not make divisions but seek to find a church where I am received to fellowship. If others are worried they can follow church
 
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I decided to follow Orthodox Church incase true that it only one I think to know that may help me in difficult times and if I can grow better to be more productive and if it can teach better the way of the Lord not to stumble and benefit others
 
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I believe I should not make divisions to follow church as I should trust God justice. If others are worried they can follow church. It is important to preach the gospel to as many people to be ready that anyone can be saved if they repent to turn to the Lord if they have chance to turn to the Lord they can be saved at anytime and to be saved you have to continue to abide when you are saved or you can lose salvation to die unrepentant not being saved
 
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I believe I should not make divisions that it is not what bible teaches but Christ asks to judge justly to please Him to do more for Him that one should not judge those who can’t know for that passage I believe can be interpreted indeed only that you can not be justified by keeping all the laws for Jews in Old Testament law because it does not take away sin as you still have sin to need to take it away and that even if you wanted to you would need to keep all law and it does not teach forgiveness unless perhaps you repent to be saved later but not to stay on earth to enter heaven but punishment so you can’t have chance to repent to be saved if you didn’t keep it but that way does not save now so one should not.

If others are worried if they feel that church can not give assurance to save them and they feel they need to trust Christ for Him to lead them to be Lord to save them they can but I don’t believe it makes a difference
 
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I thought this may be good to follow but I know it is unjust that I do not believe Christ taught that to support those divisions though He allowed it so I will not follow.

You are lucky if you have not died that you can always be saved if you accept the church that if you doing what you can to seek their help you can be saved if they come only then you need their help to walk with Christ.

I believe perhaps Catholic church could be true perhaps when Peter gave right hand fellowship with Paul that is when he gave him authority. Or maybe not just God made him acknowledge other apostles though he is head just to be able to teach what is true through his gift that he can know if he sought God enough that he can know though he may not have to teach wrong and I think church then did not make Peter have authority over others to get authority from him but he was head. I do believe Orthodox Church should be accepted that Christ is in it am not sure about Catholic Church because it does not accept orthodox now though it could be true but that it accepted orthodox so I will seek to follow Orthodox Church as I am not sure I will have help to have help of Spirit in difficulties.
 
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Even if Catholic is not true it must still be part of church because of apostolic succession and because it is not shown truth and it would be unjust to judge those who follow it. I believe people should join as they don’t know it is not truth though it could be God accepts Orthodox Church that we don’t know.
 
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I wanted to follow church because I believe people would not consider my value if I did not that they were rejecting me and because people were supporting divisions but I do not believe it is just and I should not support divisions if others are worried they can follow it but I should focus on growing to focus on preaching as it is necessary as it is important to repent to be ready not to make obstacles through distraction.
 
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I decided I will follow Orthodox Church because I don’t believe it is just for Catholic to reject it and it would not seem helpful nor can we know it is right to tell others to follow what others do not know is true and incase true and church will help me to guide me.
 
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I wanted to follow church because I think people take advantage of my mistakes to reject Christ especially I thought Jewish people so I thought I should follow church to not let them take advantage to seek for truth if they want to accept Jesus and if God wants them to follow church He will reveal it to restore kingdom to them to allow them to do miracles to testify to truth but I don’t believe it is just and I should not because though I thought others should understand my choices may look like selfishness which I did not intend but now see as selfish because I do not believe others need church and as I have been commited to it I am responsible not to put stumbling block and may harm others to make them stumble to not have fear of Lord to be distraction to make obstacle so I should not to focus on preaching as people must repent to be ready.
 
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I do believe God did wanted to use me just as he used Saul and Pharoah because I had been rebellious and yet come from prosperity like sinful world that people supported that He gave me a chance to be good to use me but I had not truly obeyed that He may not use me if I do not overcome.
 
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