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I wouldn't want to be someone that used God as a substitute for my lack of backbone when I met my Maker.
Pathetic.
MEOW!
Wow, someone's got their claws out tonight. Was your milk sour this morning by any chance?
Edit: to answer the thread, I always tend to have very civil break ups. I don't have a bad word to say about any of my ex's.
To be fair, I've only felt that 'connection' with my ex partner, and one other girl. And on both counts the separation or 'change of direction' was only a pleasant and consensual experience.
Would you want to stand before God and answer for not just bearing false witness, but bearing false witness and dishonouring God in the process further by stating it was His will?
I know I wouldn't!
Those crazy pentecostals.Sounds like he is from a Pentecostal church. I know his lady who was dating a Pentecostal guy. After just a few months he suddenly told her that God told him to marry her. She was like uh no we just started. Then the BF bought the GF to an elder of the Pentecostal church and the elder said God told her that the BF and the GF should marry. The GF was like uh I will think about it but right now is too early. The GF even told the BF flat out that God never told her anything about that.
A few weeks later the BF told the GF that, since she refused to obey God's will, God now commends him to break up with her. And that's what he did.
You've just stopped me in my tracks mate... You're going to have to dumb it down a bit so that I can understand.
Sounds like he is from a Pentecostal church.
Would you want to stand before God and answer for not just bearing false witness, but bearing false witness and dishonouring God in the process further by stating it was His will?
Bearing false witness(lying) is a sin. So the sin of lying is one thing to answer for, but to lie about God telling you to do something is not something I'd want to answer for(or any sin, really, but I'd imagine it's probably worse lol).
How do you exactly know the guy was lying and wasn't honestly believing he is obeying God? You seem to know a lot about him.
a nugget short of a Happy Meal
Because I knew him and his character enough to know it was codswallop.
Alright, if you say so.
I asked because I could have said/done similar things at some point in my life (When I was Charismatic Christian, about 10-15 years ago), and most likely I would have honestly thought it was God's will.
Things Christians should know is putting on His full Armor against such things because the Devil exists just as much as God. Those whispers are not always from Him.
Things Christians should know is putting on His full Armor against such things because the Devil exists just as much as God. Those whispers are not always from Him.
Yeah exactly. We really have to be careful. In that GF's example, it would seem like God changed his mind. So firstly God wants that BF and GF to marry. Then then a few weeks later God now wants the BF to break up with her for disobedient?
The danger of these Pentecostal and charismatic Christian is that God "always" seems to want what they want. God wants what is convenient for them. If I am a skeptic, I would say that many of these people were just using God's name to get what they themselves wanted.
I've always thought there using it because they think it's letting them down easy, sort of the Christianized version of "it's not you, it's me".
Meh, it's all a part of living. And there are valuable lessons to be learned through suffering.I am so sorry what so many have had to endure in this thread! Sounds awful some of the experiences!!
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