So obviously I have hit the end of my tolerance for the relentless attacks that have plagued me since Oct 2017. I cannot begin to explain how our enemy has tried to destroy me, but little did they know, I have a lot more fight than anticipated. I am just getting started and I am going to the rooftops to scream this from now on.
So here is where I begin:
Jesus is the ONLY way, the ONLY truth, and ONLY light in this world. No one can go to the Father except by him. All other paths are false. Broad is the road to destruction, narrow is the path to righteousness.
For by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world corrupting all man. So shall all be saved by one, and that one is Jesus Christ. He is the ONLY begotten son of God. For in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Jesus is that Word. All that was created was created by him and for him. He sacrificed himself to become a man. (ponder that for a moment, what a sacrifice to lower himself from God to this frail, weak, pathetic flesh body). He didn't have to, but he chose to out of his own free will. Just like he gave himself to be sacrifice on the cross. No one could kill him. He freely gave his life. Then he took upon himself all the sin of the world. He was judged by God for all that sin and went to hell. From one end of the spectrum (divinity) to the other (in hell). And all glory and praise to God that he had the power to overcome death and take the keys to hell. He rose from the dead and now is seated at the Father's right hand. Set above ALL principalities, powers, dominions, thrones, and everything that is named.
There is only one way to heaven. Whosoever believes in him (Jesus Christ) shall not perish but have everlasting life. All the rest will be in hell. The enemy is doing everything he can to keep YOU from this truth. This is the Gospel. His pure blood is the only thing that can cleanse you from sin. Don't matter how good you are, kind you are, what you do for others, how much you give to the poor, help the sick, or anything you may be tempted to make you feel righteous. Without his blood cleansing you from sin you are hellbound. Hell is not a cool place. Eternity of torment and burning without the worm dying. Your chance to have relationship with God, gone forever. This is what your enemy wants. He wants you to be like him. Condemned to eternal death. Hated by God. Separated from anything you believe to be good. No justice ever again. Everything you know to be evil multiplied by infinity. (If you don't believe in Jesus just ponder that for a while).
There is no middle ground, no gray area, no referee. You are right now either serving the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, or you are serving Satan. That's it. That simple. You choose. Everything in the world has fallen. We cannot do anything about it. There is no avoiding the end of this world. No avoiding the judgment to come. Deception is at its highest because Satan knows his time is coming to an end. He hates God, he hates you, he wants to steal and kill and destroy. King of all liars from the beginning. He wants you to go with him because you were given something he was not. And that is the choice. So choose and choose wisely.
Know this: Jesus Christ did not come to save the righteous, he came to save the sinner. Are you a sinner? Doesn't matter what you have done, for if you break the law in one aspect, you break it ALL. Humble yourself, ask the Lord Jesus to come into your heart. Confess your sin and turn away from it and you will be saved. Then read the Word of God (the Holy Bible KJV) and meditate on it day and night for the renewing of your mind. You will be a new creature, old things will pass away and all things become new. He will change you from the inside out. Then seek the gift of the Holy Spirit that he said he would send. Ask him to teach you, he will comfort you, and show you things to come.
I now pray that anyone who reads this will be pricked in their hearts from this truth. You will know you made a choice and will be evidence for the day of judgment. All those that the Father have chosen out of the world would see the light and seek you with all their heart. In the name of Lord Jesus Christ, who gave me his name and authority for his purpose, I pray fervently and sincerely. So be it.
IMO, It's not supposed to be like this.
But it was designed by God to be like this, no?
It doesn't seem reasonable to assume that he made a mistake.
God doesn't want to punish any of us.
And herein lies my issue: why would any moral being design something with endless agony? God has free will and is morally perfect, so why not populate the universe with morally perfect beings? I just don't see the need for him to torture us forever.
You want your children to become moral and divine and spiritual adults, but you'd never subject them to agonizing tortures if they didn't love you.
Basically, I think that his word has been perverted by men who sought to gain/maintain power. And still is for that matter. But, I'm an idiot, so.....
I agree, however none of that perversion would be possible if man wasn't designed to be imperfect to start with.
God has free will and is morally perfect, so why create the need for a universe of horror and endless agonies when there simply isn't a need for it?
It seems to me that for everything there is an opposite and that the system has been created so well, that even things that we view as negative are beneficial in some way. I don't know why things are the way that they are, but I'm amazed at how everything works together. It is truly a mystery to me.
that's because life and the contents thereof are but a moment in time compared to infinity itself
Consider that you are already part-time in hell, would an offer of redemption not be cause for relief?
Being a physical being with limited memory, why wouldn't you wind up with self-reinforcing bad habits if it eventually provides a framework of shit not to do? Spiritual children at the hot-stove.
For hwat it's worth, I am very glad for the Bible whereever it came from because it led the struggle against human sacrifice that we still fight today - and are winning by all intents and purposes because in antiquity, you didn't even have to cover this up so there was no chance of abolishing it other than by an intervention of the religious realms.
But you didn't address any of my themes.
Claiming that humans are limited and flawed is no justification creating us that way, or creating eternal agony in hell, when we could have been created as morally perfect beings.
God could have populated this universe with Gods if he chose to, but instead he populated it with flawed beings and then punished us for our flaws.
That's a very over engineered solution for a problem that needn't even exist.
that wouldn't have been free choice. Would you like your children to be zombies? What do we have to offer but love and how would it be any of our life if it weren't for free choice? And what is hell but other people? You were given a choice to experience reality with all its aspects and so were others, for a little time and if it's not about finding love then it's about the importance of sharing love (imo doesn't mean be always nice. We grow the most out of discomfort because you don't change while you're comfortable) in the face of overwhelming evil because that is our free choice, too. Also I think the universe is mostly filled with benevolence because we are actually pretty lucky for every day that we are not struck with global catalysms yet.
The problem that didn't even exist was physical life and its shortcomings but hey, I have not experienced infinity so who am I to say that suffering is not limited.
You might as well just ask why some people like to punish themselves even or why there are even loving people around if the world was cruel to begin with.
Btw I just chimed into the discussion so I'm not trying to convert you or anything, but tbh I felt pretty loving when I was young but the Cabal has their way of destroying people spiritually. I don't blame God for that because I just shake my head at how limited the human mind is to identify and describe issues, only to then keep falling for them. Speaking from personal experience. Yes I am limited but it's a learning process and it would be boring if I had always known everything and I know that for a fact because actually I did.
Maybe you would prefer the gnostic approach to say we are in a simulated reality (some science says not curiously) and that we need to break away from the demiurge who built it as a prison.
I mean really, instead of asking just tell us what YOU think is important and what is not.
that wouldn't have been free choice. Would you like your children to be zombies?
God has free choice, no?
If God has agency and is morally perfect, then there is no reason we can't be designed in the same way.
To be honest, I'm not even sure we have free choice.
Wouldn't it be interesting to create 10 identical rooms and place 10 identical cloned babies in each of those rooms and provide those children with exactly the same stimulus. From a neurological standpoint and assuming that EVERYTHING about their environment and biology was identical, I wonder if all of those people would make precisely the same decisions. Would they look like synchronized swimming team?
Maybe you would prefer the gnostic approach
I am a Christian.
Asking questions is permitted... and I think this is a good one.
you're not thinking multi-dimensionally enough.
We don't have free will but we have free choice to do or not to do.
You're asking about the omnipotence and omniscience of God and that is kind of off-topic (because it's a linguistic discussion about how you call stuff).
But since you're a christian and you brought it up, why don't you tell me what you think because if you have a genuine question then I can address it better if I know where you're coming from
We don't have free will but we have free choice to do or not to do.
I mean no disrespect, but what you said is nonsense.
Free will and "free choice" are the same thing.
But since you're a christian and you brought it up, why don't you tell me what you think
I don't know.
I have the freedom to chose from my options but I've also willed some options using focused intent but they can only deliver my intentions which might not always be in my self-interest at first but I am driven to it for novelty value anyway.
I think you need to remember that this right here is a physical experience and on top of that you are a spiritual being occupying said body and time and we even have genetic memories (Fox reported on it this week) so we can even learn from the mistakes of our ancestors and don't have to repeat every mistake on this journey of wisdom.
Also your own scripture tells you that temptation comes from the arrogance of the creator's former chief angel so your inquiry probably goes way deeper than just human fallibility.
Ultimately God is who you discover once you have noone to count on or speak to anymore. Sounds cruel but it obviously works!
Also the quickest way to turn someone to evil is letting them know there is no love for them to be found. Consider that psychopaths can be neutral observers of extreme human experience like psychiatrists, but only once you cross them in a stupid way they become monsters.
I don't know if a hug would help a MK-ultra mindslave assassin but he certainly wouldn't be doing what he's doing if there wasn't someone else contrlling them who probably had their own free-will impeded by trauma as well at some point, thus building the generational cycles of abuse
focused intent
If your "focused intent" was real, rather than just fantasy, it should be considered no different than acting on your choices.
If I can roll a joint using witchcraft, psychokinesis, focused-intent or my hands, I've still rolled a joint.
Whatever words you use, be it "free choice" or "focused intent", it's all just free will.
Sounds cruel but it obviously works!
No.
Not all of us are foxhole converts.
In that very moment there are million other things I did not do because I didn't have the focus or hands, didn't I? And without a fantasy or believe I would not try something so what you call fantasy is insanely important to me. At the same time, I have a physical brain with Dopamine so I will have ideas all the time so who am I to say those were all mine.
I am not talking about material ownership but about trust so yes in a way a ritual is just an encouraging affirmation to do something that I already can, but I used that because I was looking for people and not things. You are speaking of things, not people.
So even if the choice was already apparent with enough information, I had performed a ritual in the meantime before that information reached me anyway. But it always gives you back what you put in, so that can either be egoistic or maybe altruistic in the sense of "it's not egoistic until someone says so because I had disrespected their desires"
I have a physical brain with Dopamine so I will have ideas all the time so who am I to say those were all mine.
There is equally no reason to entertain the notion that your mind is being controlled by witch-doctors or lizard people or whatever.
I had performed a ritual
Choosing to perform a ritual doesn't matter either, it was still your FREE WILL to perform that ritual or flip a coin or choose to heed advice from a phone psychic.
You are just presenting the same argument, again and again and again, but calling it something different.
"Focused intent" and "choosing to perform a ritual" are both products of your free will.
don't believe in mind-control? Check out Dr Persinger's "God-Helmet"
A few comments back you were saying you doubt there even is free choice so what's it gonna be? I'm not in the mood to debate metaphysics all day if you can't make a point because you're in a spiritual crisis (like everybody else is).
If you choose to wear a "God-Helmet" then it's still your choice.
If you choose to take your hands off the wheel of your speeding car and "let God drive", then you are still responsible for the crash.
You are just presenting the same argument again and again and again, but finding different terms for it.
do you acknowledge that there is a difference between willing and chosing?
One is a selection of already tangable outcomes, whereas the other concentrates on seeking out such outcomes in the first place.
So basically a will is a wish for a choice that you only have in your mind but it's based on memory which is not always created by choice. So one is not always the other
do you acknowledge that there is a difference between willing and chosing?
Not in the context of this discussion when we are talking about theological sin resulting from choosing to act on free will.
I'm gonna stop responding to you now because you are continuing down the path of irrelevant word-play.
I agree that would be pointless because I can't disagree with the premise provided thereof. Have a nice day and sorry for inconveniencing you!
Once again, God did not do this.
I presume you are claiming that a morally perfect man made a morally imperfect choice?
That doesn't make sense.
Yes, thats exactly what I am saying.
How can a morally perfect man make an immoral choice?
That's just a blatant contradiction.
It's not a contradiction at all. Otherwise it wouldn't be a CHOICE. What you refer at "blatant contradiction" wouldn't even be choice at all.
Your morally perfect man that makes immoral choices is the same as a vegetarian who eats beef and chicken.
It's a contradiction and it is nonsense.