I wonder why people with cancer are never told this? Or people with Alzheimer’s are never told to do this. It’s part of that attitude that keeps me from church.
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if you believe in god that’s cool, i used to be like that, but now i don’t…im agnostic…
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yes im christian but not in the typical sense like radmedtech said
i follow the bible.
i notice a lot of modern preachers (im non catholic christian) dont follow the bible like the tv preachers. but i have nothing against them.
id like to think im pretty tolerant of other peoples religions. i question my fellow christians. i look into the bible and biblical history on my own as well as other religions history.
and i also have that bible app and seen some of the series too.
also mindwhisperer! i saw that show it was sid roths supernatural wasnt it? the guy on there had schizophrenia and was supposedly cured and became the director of the hospital they put him in.
i believe in many things including God
i am not bitter and i respect other peoples views
i go to church when i can and we sing and pray and i listen,
in my opinion there is nothing to fear from God so why not accept him?
in my opinion God is love and would never harm a living soul.
its true that bad things have happened in the name of God but these are not the work of God these are the work of men and men and women alike we are all sinners no matter what we do, nobody is perfect and we need to remember that.
last Sunday was amazing, i met some really nice people and after the service we had a free lunch with lovely soup, sandwiches and cake followed by us sending out Christmas card invitations to the people of our community trying to encourage them to come for some caroling and mince pies etc,
that evening my friend and i attended a concert at another church and we sang Christmas songs and there was a band and children singing and it was lovely, a really good start to the season.
later during the week i then attended a prayer meeting and we sing and pray about various things and i grabbed some more invitations that i need to post.
i asked my sister if she wanted to come but she said no, which is a shame because its not all about money and giving gifts, people forget about the true meening of Christmas and it is a shame, i honestly think they would love it but who am i to say?
i am sorry if you dont like this message but i am just being honest and that is all i can do…
p.s. i’ve heard a lot of talk about a thing called sz light which in my opinion is not a very nice thing to say, i have had sz for 11 years now 3-4 of these years i have been stable, but just because i am doing well people think i must have sz light or had sz light. i could be a pastor if i wanted to actually i have thought about it a lot, right now i have been looking online to see what my options are and i am veering towards teaching, now do you think that if i am able to do something like that i couldnt possibly have been unwell or have suffered badly?, i had 7-8 years of hell and it would have been a lot worse without my friend sweep to help me, i was hospitalized 3-4 times etc, now i’m not saying i was the worst or whatever but i have been through a lot anyway and now i am trying to use my experience to teach the world that you can get better, its not impossible to be able to hold down a job with sz if you are on the right dose/med etc, just because you have an illness doesnt mean that you cannot achieve or strive to get better and complete goals that you want.
anyway sorry for the rant i just wanted to say that because it has been bothering me x
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I do not consider myself to be religious. I do consider myself kind of spiritual.
Is there a God? I don’t know for sure. But there is a big part of me that wants to believe there is a God.
I kind of find peace in natural things - sky-trees-wind-sun etc…
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@SurprisedJ Scarily, this is still happening in this modern age. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729684
Thank you for that article… Wow how scary. I really wonder about churches like that.
Yes, of course most Christian churches are not like that. Just the vocal minority. Much like Christian evangelicals or Muslim jihadists. A very small minority who get an awful lot of attention.
I agree with daydreamer that if I were religious, I would have no problem with God. It’s the men and women who interpret his message so wrongly that I have beef with.
I do miss the social/community aspect of being involved in a Church. But there are other ways to fill that void.
That is my feeling exactly. Except for the Unitarians and their very excellent food bank, and their visits to the homeless camp when I was homeless, I’ve had very negative interactions with Gods representation here on earth.
I think you would be a very good pastor. You seem to possess a quality that I see as very lacking in many pastors I’ve personally met lately. That quality is tolerance and compassion. You would NEVER tell someone in your parish to “Pray the illness away”
Maybe if I would have met a few of God’s reps who lived in the now, didn’t think that science, meds, vaccines were all the work of the devil, and didn’t tell me that SZ doesn’t really exist then I’d be more likely to pay attention to religion.
As have I. I’m trying to remain tolerant though, for my own sanity. It’s very easy to become angry and bitter toward all religion in general.
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so your agnostic then
Yes I guess I am pretty much agnostic Ryan.
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I do my best not to simply believe in something and then stop dead in my tracks. I move onward.
A lot of folks believe in a God and then they stick to that belief. In other words, they throw their God out the window.
You only need to practice a belief if you are currently located at a distance from the truth. Thus if you stick to your belief, then you stick to being located at a distance from the truth, thus you permanently stick to being located at a distance from your God that you believe in.
In turn you also stick to basing your decisions upon mere beliefs rather than basing your decisions upon truths. Thus if a truth is placed directly before you, you will perceive it to be anything else but the truth.
Imagine if somehow a fellow named Jesus Christ was placed in front of a group of religious believers who therefore base decisions upon their religious beliefs. I bet that they would not and could not see the truth that now stood before them. I bet that they would spit into his face, bust his nose, insult him, flog him, scourge him, and crucify him.
That would be how religious believers, who stick to their beliefs, would respond to a truth of even a scale that is as huge as the Son of God himself.
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I’m a practicing Pagan so yes, I believe in various manifestations of God/Goddess. It’s pretty fluid for me, though, and I tend to take a break from my practices when having a serious mental health issue for fear of making it worse.
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I don’t see a reason to believe in one religion over another. They’re all the same to me, so I just kinda believe in my own thing. Though I do like the morals that a lot of religions provide to the world.
Yea I believe in God no doubt, If it wasn’t for Him It’d be in a white padded room wearing one of them cute white coats… and if not there then dead.
He is real 100%
Course you should fear God, He can send you to Hell
Throughout the bible God has Killed millions if not billions of people, Naohs ark, He sent an angle to kill 18,000 men that would not obay Him
I don’t know who your God is but I’m Christain, And my God says to fear him…
Hope you don’t mind my input 
It is a terrifying thing to be in god’s hands.
Not if you know and obay him, In my opinion It’s terrifying not to be. I would dread his judgement, I would dread hell. I would dread meeting Him why I die.
I have an understanding and this is it, We are all eternal The sole never dies, we live for eternatiy. We live in the flesh for 75 years give or take. How long is that compaired to eternatiy? a split second? Well I’d rather Put my faith in my God that I believe in and trust wholeheartly for this split second than burn for eternatiy. I fear nothing, Not the voices, Not the things that touch me, The the things I see. Not life, Not People, I’m not parnoide and I’m a very strong minded man. You honestly think I could get to this place on my own without My Gods help? Not a hope I need my God and Proudly I say Im in His hands
Thinking about it more, It is terrifying if you consider your life is His will. And who can Imagine the mind of God. But nothing is stronger than my fear of His wrath. No way.
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