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Lamentations 3:21-23 New Living Translation (NLT)
21 Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:
22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
23 Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I think this will (hopefully) come at the end but I do one day hope all this "god stuff" can get untangled and untwisted in my head.

If you ask my family, Im going to hell because im confused about it all, I dont claim to be Christian and certianly dont follow the Christian Bible (though I know it), and cant think of anything better than to take a baseball bat and beat "god" over the head with it. Sorry, dont mean to offend anyone.

Ive only recently start tiptoeing around in this thread. Those that said "only god can fix you" i polietly asked them to not push "god" on me...and I still dont what it all pushed on me.

But my recent curiosity has me baffled. After the last pastor dropped me and abandoned me for having too many issues for him to talk to; I gave up trying to understand it all. That was well over a year ago, maybe 2 by now, and ive not had one thought to come here (or anywhere) and try to understand; until these past recent weeks.

I still ask folks here to please not push this all on me, let me come and investigate on my own. If I ask questions, thats different but i have yet to ask any "god" like questions.

I do want what those say is this great relationship with this "god" figure and always have...its why I was trying so hard to untangle it all in my head for years and years.

But I think its another leg in my recovery. Investigating likely one of the biggest items in my trauma.

 

[EveHarrington]

@lostforgottensoul

Take things at your own pace.

I'm a Christian but I don't believe in forcing my views on anyone else.

I came to God on my own and in my own time, and this is where I think true believing exists.

That is you can brow beat someone into believing. (That's how you get fake believers, those who pretend, only follow the motions.)

You can hate God, curse at him, take out all of your rage on him, and it's ok. (God knows I have.) Maybe one day you will be fully open to God, and this is when he has the chance to enter your life. But-----all in YOUR time.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@EveHarrington thank you for that and for the encouragement!

Someone here once basically, in my opinion or view, gave me a sermon and was saying that this was the only way to get better and i polietely asked them to not push "god" on me. My family has done that, A LOT, and others have as well and its not something that I can just force. Just like I cant force anything else.

Its a huge tangled up circle f*ck in my head and most dont get that. (Sorry for any disrespect using profanity in here). Most think im choosing this and im not. Growing up very young in a very fundelmentalist christian church, then a cult that called itself christianity but used "god" as a way to hurt, and seeking refuage in a christian youth center causes a tangled up mess of confusion...and massive rage towarda this "god".

Im just finding it odd and slightly intresting that ive been finding myself in this thread often over the last few weeks...

 

[Changing4Best]

@EveHarrington you are welcome here. Take all the time you need.

 

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For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
Romans 3:23-24 New Living Translation

 

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[ The Resurrection of Christ ] Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.
1 Corinthians 15:1, 3-4 New Living Translation

 

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Pay your taxes, too, for these same reasons. For government workers need to be paid. They are serving God in what they do. Give to everyone what you owe them: Pay your taxes and government fees to those who collect them, and give respect and honor to those who are in authority.
Romans 13:6-7 NLT

 

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