Have fear, shame, control and "sin" been used as tools to manipulate you?
Are you strong enough to acknowledge that you have been lied to?
Are you willing to admit to yourself that you have been a victim and that you need help?
Stages of control of xianity in one's life:
Becoming more and more preoccupied with church/bible study
Excessive church attendance or reading bible
Using church/bible/prayer to avoid life and/or problems
Compulsive thinking about or quoting scripture
The above is the loss of control stage.
Compulsive church attendance or quoting of scriptures
Obsessive praying, prosyletizing, witnessing, attending revivals and crusades on a frequent basis
Excessive financial contributions
Increasing dependence on "the Lord"
Feelings of guilt if you miss a church function
Refusal to think, doubt or question xian teachings or authority
Inability to sensibly discuss religious issues
Church attendance, prayer and religious activities begin to i
2007-10-28 14:19:47 · 12 answers · asked by Wiccanking 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have no idea what xianity is. But I have not been lied to and you can't prove it. I am happy with Christianity.
2007-10-28 15:17:07 · answer #1 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I strive to be all those things that you listed. I want to be totally dependent on the Lord and long to be an excessive prayer/bible reader/compulsive quoter or the scripture. I refuse to doubt God and see nothing wrong with all of these things, this is the way life is ment to be and it is so fantastic i could not describe it in words!! I love God with everything that i have and will never deny Him.
2007-10-28 15:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You could not be more wrong.
The key to understanding authentic Christianity is love.
One may be a serious sinner for a lifetime, but if one dies with at least some charity in his soul, the hope of salvation remains.
Those who have come to know and love God, and who desire true peace and tranquility in life, along with perfect freedom, take the time to understand the practical purpose of the church, and all it's work, worship, sacraments, and devotions.
2007-10-28 15:22:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you feel better now? Was it necessary to X out Christ? This is a rant, meant to incite anger and you know it! I live and let live! I have my beliefs and you have your non beliefs.You live your life the way you see fit and I'll live mine the way I see fit. I am a Spiritualist and I believe in God the Creator. I go to a Spiritualist Church where we all pray to Father God.I also believe in reincarnation, and that I can see and talk to Great Aunt Bessy! So what?
2007-10-29 00:31:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your issues are all true. It is because temporal life on earth is merely a preparation of eternal life in the coming soon kingdom of heaven and kingdom of GOD. Also when there is love there is no manipulation. But love is grace given as a gift from THE LORD GOD. Thus, I will pray for you to ward off the evil spirit that has made you a captive. Archangel Michael, defend us in the day of battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May GOD rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of GOD cast into helll satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. Mary, Queen of Holy Angels, Pray for us. Amen. THANK GOD; FEAR GOD; PRAISE GOD; GLORIFY GOD; HONOR GOD; LOVE GOD AND WORSHIP GOD.
2007-10-28 15:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by Prophet John of the Omega 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's easy because you have been taught a lie, there is no burning hell and by wanting to get out of false religion you show you have a mind that doesn't follow blindly as do the majority. Don't you owe it to yourself to see what is the real truth, at Ephesians 4:5-6 we read) (Ephesians 4:5-6) one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all. Do you even know who the true God is? I doubt it because who you have been praying to is God when Jesus said there are many God's and Many Lord's. At 1 John 5:19 we see who is the God of this world ) (1 John 5:19) We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the [power of the] wicked one. The King James says at Psalms 83:18) That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth. Have you directed your prayers to him through his Son Jesus Christ because Jesus said that no one comes to the Father except through him and Jesus also said that no one finds the truth about Jesus unless the Father draws them. First you have to pray to Jehovah and then Jehovah will lead you to the truth about Christ otherwise you will be as many have went before you into the Atheist group and many of them has never known the truth but based their belief on false teachers Christendom's clergy(2 Timothy 4:3-4) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. And like you they find that what they tell you don't work so then you become an unbeliever. What Does the Bible Really Teach? is free and a Bible study aid that gives you Bible answers and not the opinions of false teachers, once you know the truth and who the true God is(your prayers will be heard) your faith in the true God will be restored and you will be set free from this world and its corruption. Those that are friends to Satan's world make themselves enemy's of the true God(James 4:4) Adulteresses, do YOU not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God. Stop being blinded to the truth as so many others are(2 Corinthians 4:4) among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.
2016-04-11 00:05:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never stop asking questions!
Also....Franco: a dismissal of somebody's POV because they've taken the name of a mass murderer doesn't carry much sting when it comes from somebody who's taken the name of a Spanish dictator. Just sayin'.
2007-10-28 14:31:32 · answer #7 · answered by nobody important 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have chosen the name of one of the worst mass murderers in history. This disqualifies you from any serious comment.
2007-10-28 14:29:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was bound in chains to sin and eternal separation from God before I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord & Saviour. Jesus set me free, and for that I am eternally grateful!
2007-10-28 14:26:16 · answer #9 · answered by Virginia B (John 16:33) 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, I was lucky and my parents never pushed anything on me. I came to my own rational descision.
2007-10-28 14:24:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋