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Food4thought
Well the idea that you will forever struggle with it concerns me, a battle you never plan to win sounds like pretense to me. It sounds very superficial, like ypu have no plan or desire or need to ever really change and you feel thats ok. Thats just how it sounds to me when people say they know theyll never really change or stop till heaven.
It's easy to be desensitized to bad news. We live in an era of 24/7 news on TV, social media, radio, etc. We are bombarded all day with war, death, murder, catastrophe and all other sorts of bad news that it's easy to turn a blind eye or deaf ear to it because you have heard it so much already.
Dcalling
I dont hate christians, i hate what they commonly think and what their book says. This is because of the things those ideas did to me and do to humans.
Sometimes i struggle to remember to limit my aversion to their ideas and not let myself lose my love and compassion for them and all people.
I still don't consider evil people Christians.
Hi again Dean;
Yes, I struggle with losing compassion for some people, and even have very unloving and judgmental thoughts towards them. For instance, as Iraq dissolved into various militant Islamic groups fighting everyone who does not believe exactly as they do, and more and more moderate Islamic people and people of other faiths were being threatened and even killed, I began to think that we should just airlift all the non-Muslims out and then let the Muslims kill each other. Because of all the horrible things that Militant Islamists have been doing, I was losing compassion for all Muslims... over a billion people.
I asked God to forgive me and change my heart towards them. It is in our natural make-up to accept "us" and be against "them", but Jesus calls us to let this nature die within us and to let the Spirit create within us a new nature, full of love for our enemies. As a Christian I have two natures, my natural one that I should be actively putting to death, and a new Spiritual nature that I should be actively nurturing... this is a battle that will not end until the day I stand before my Lord in heaven. Part of the problem with the visible church is that so few Christians seem to be trying very hard...
Yesterday i was watching the news and as i saw that ISIS was trying to kill these christians i realized that i felt no sympathy for these christians because they were christians. Witnessing myself acting in such an immoral manner shocked me.
I know that if i saw these events take place id realize my problem immediately and i would die trying to help them
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