It's okay not to know the right answer. That's not our job.

Posted by Lychee Lady on May 15, 2014 at 2:41pm

Are there any issues that you, as a Christian, are struggling with? Are there are issues you think the church makes too big or not big enough? So often, people tell you that you have to make a decision. You have to be on one side or the other. This is in reference to Rev 3:15-17 (don't be lukewarm). I am always hot when it comes to loving and caring for people, but I admit that I struggle with a few issues, and that may never change. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong (save for whether you've accepted Christ or not). What matters is your love. By our love, people will know who we are. Unfortunately, the general public categorizes us by our perceived hate. 

Abortion

Homosexuality

War

Premarital Sex

Premarital Living

Not having Children

Birth Control

Alcohol

Marijuana

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  • Ryan07 May 28, 2014 at 1:03pm

    I just got my a** reamed on a vegan forum while trying to speak creatively against evolution towards the idea that we were designed. It was by a mod and he was very intolerant and full of ridicule so I decided to leave the group. After blocking him. :p:p

     

    The problem is I think, like with David Icke and these scientists, they use a portion of the truth and speculate on all the rest. Since God IS love and we left him to come here and are going to return to him he is not entirely wrong. Still, he leaves us deluded and confused and doubting ourselves. I try to say things against evolution and just get turned into a laughing stock by out of shape depressed vegans that are so brainwashed by science they are incapable of thinking outside the box. Like robots.

    And yet historically as Christians we already have the stereotype of being stuck thinking the same way in a box. The world is truly our enemy :p

     

    • erinbem > Ryan07 May 29, 2014 at 6:35am

      Ohh(sigh) It saddens me truly, I know the inward pain when being bashed by others that try to seem superior with a hardened heart, toward believers.

      I do not think it(the world) is our enemy, as much as it is our school, even though evil walks here amongst us.

      I seldom get into a discussion on certain subjects, as most just want to be right in their own beliefs or lack of belief. I know the alive Christ that lives in me and for that much of the world deems me ignorant or insane. OK I am nuts as I do believe and I know the Spirit that guides me every step of the way if I allow. I do not mind being pegged by those who deny Him, as their words too fall on deaf ears, as mine do to theirs. I know in my heart that here is just a moment of my life, and yes I am a full blown Christ believer and I do try my best to become my better person here. I share where and when I can with others that want to share in a healthy exchange, but never will debate Christ Jesus....as even the devil knows He is real : )

    • Ryan07 > erinbem May 29, 2014 at 4:36pm

      True that! Sometimes I have to remind myself that if I didn't encounter opposition and ridicule I wouldn't be doing my job.

       

      I suppose it is more proper to say 'being worldly' is our enemy.

    • Lychee Lady > Ryan07 June 13, 2014 at 1:38am
      Sometimes it is our job. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes iteans we're doing something wrong. Sometimes it means we're doing something right. Like this discussion states, it's okay not to have all the answers because that is not our job. I can see evolution as a plausible theory, and appreciate it for what it is: a theory. Whether God made the world in literal or metaphorical days, the point is that He is the one who created and designed everything. It is in His power to have simply spoken everything into being, or He might have taken His time intimately carving Himself into the fabricwork of creation. Big bang, evolution, gap theory, string theory, literal interpretation of the Bible- whatever. However He did it, He did it. Even creationists can disagree. Lol!
    • erinbem > Lychee Lady June 13, 2014 at 5:57am

      I think it will be amazing when we do move through this life and into the next. We will be glowing with the immediate knowing of it all. Then grace will fill us and we truly start living. I am counting on this and truly believe.

      I can not deny what fills me and Who placed it there, I need not know or question or even argue about the so called facts, because no one can tell me what I feel is wrong, what I know is incorrect. I know. Every question I have had is answered for me in the bible, if I look close enough He has answered it all.

      I walk in joy because of this and if I can't find joy that means I have lost my focus and my focus on Him and the biggest picture of all His Love.

      I smile because all the reasons or theories could very well be partially right. But His hand has always been all over it all.  Even the blackness before the light, some see black instead of Him, I see God in it all, everything. Even in a  grain of sand.

      I feel bad for the ones who do not realize their inner Light, their inner peace just waiting to be unleashed, enjoyed, fulfilled and set free to finally live.

  • erinbem May 17, 2014 at 8:21am

    I find it lonely at times, being completely bible based and trying to live by the Word of God and understanding the truth of the Gospel.

    I find that so many of us are misunderstood and shunned because we do. But as well I believe we only know a very small amount of anything. God is so amazing we can not even begin to conceive what this life is even about or what the next will be either. I as well believe that edited and omission occurred when the bible was formed by the hands of man, even when God breathed life into it all. I think so much was altered and omitted by the powers to be at the time of it all being canonized. I am not a biblical scholar at all, but I do know this, God is about love. Got knows we need a moral foundation and as well Christ Jesus to follow. He created us so needy and with our free will so destructive and self centered. To find the inner Spirit of God to guide us is needed to help us become all we can become in Him. To believe and live with faith in this world today is difficult at best. But oh so worth it.

    I do believe in it all, I do believe in heaven, and our after life. The details are to complex to even imagine, but I know it will all be revealed in due time. I have hope and wish our Christian families could unite and stop fussing over the details and just get along enough to be powerful and send a loving powerful message of truth and everlasting life.

    I as well feel that all of this here, in the world is suppose be happening the way it is, even as scary as it is, it will all work out. I do not fear death, but as well do not run to it either, as I love my life here and love the joys and am so very grateful each day I am allowed to share it with my loved ones. I finally feel peace in my life, even through a lot of tough times. I have not always been this way or even believed this way. I struggled for years. I have my views on each one of the subjects you listed and my opinions as well. The trouble is I do believe the bible and what it teaches on each one of these issues and not with judgment or hatred, but with kindness, compassion and love.

    I am a sinner, and I strive each day to do better, be better and live better. Trying to press forward to be my best. Not with, but with a genuine open heart. To know I can become a better person because I want to, because of gratitude. As well to be open to helping others and serving the Lord in what He wills for me. To find peace and joy in this, cutting away the self in it all is the hardest part. God wants us happy and t live with a joyful heart. I try.

     

    I do feel I am an odd duck in a very big pond though and I as well know I swim in a completely different direction than most.  I am OK with this, as I never felt like anyone in the crowd I looked upon....I guess that is my uniqueness as each of us are, much in the same, but feel separated by our own heart's belief. Close to others, similar to many, but know He loves us individually, and has an individual plan for each of us. Mind blowing isn't it!  He loves us all equally, but uniquely too.

    • alex > erinbem June 1, 2014 at 3:48am
      Hi

      Read the bondage breaker and victory over the darkness by Neil anderson its quite good about getting to know who we are in christ. We are saints who sin.
  • Annelife May 16, 2014 at 5:09am

    I have a question.  Can love exist if there is only one single living thing?

    • Lychee Lady > Annelife May 16, 2014 at 4:57pm
      I think God loved the first tree, the first fish, the first bird. God is love, and since He's always been, I would say yes. Nice question though!
    • Annelife > Lychee Lady May 16, 2014 at 7:40pm
      I agree, because even God in Himself is the community of the trinity. I just asked because I watched a speech recently by a man named David Icke. He basically preached that in the end we will all become part of one all knowing conscience in a constant state of ecstasy. More or less, we will all be one and that one will be God. The thing is, so much of his information is comprised of very Biblical concepts. It all sounds very alluring until I realized that it leaves out any theory of community whatsoever, so then how could love exist? Yet his whole message is based on love being the ultimate everything.

      So I think it's very close to truth but just misrepresented enough to tempt people away from the truth... I'm still wrestling with it. It's been a lot of new information.
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