(August 10, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(August 10, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Godschild Wrote: Yes a Southern Baptist, however you don't know me. I live in Tennessee and have family and friends in North Carolina and Georgia. I've certainly haven't seen anything in these states that should cause one to consider ending their life. It's good you tried to believe in God, let me ask this did you allow God to show Himself to you? You believe in the air you breath yet you can't see it, you believe in the gravity that holds you to the ground yet you can't see it, you believe in light because it illuminates the things you see, yet you can't see it. Yes, you can see the evidence of these things, just as I can, I can also see the evidence of God. What does your grandparents not being religious and your parents being religious have to do with anything, it has been their choice and still is, they have a right to this, just as you have a right to be a non-believer or even a believer if you choose. As for the lady who gave the Bible to your father, that was her right then and it continues to be now. It's not up to you to conform people to your idea of them, trying to change everything about you dislike about those around you could drive one mad, they want to be who they are, just as you want to be who you are. You should stop trying to change people and learn to accept who they are. Enough about all this now, please go and have that family talk and find out some truths in life and share some with them.
GC
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Not to hijack anyone's thread, but really GC? Really bro? Is this really what you think? Is this also how you feel about gay people? Atheists? Anyone else for whom "who they are" doesn't line up with the Wholly Babble?
Shini, it's good to see you posting again. I'm glad you made it through the other night at least. Hang in there. There may not be an afterlife, but that just makes this one all the more precious.
Being an embarrassment to your parents/family is not necessarily a bad thing. You won't be under their roof forever. Many kids wind up with ideologies that clash with their parents', and a lot of parents can't accept that, hence the disappointment and/or embarrassment they might be so selfish as to feel. That says a lot more about them than it does about you. Hang in there, dude. You'll be alright.
Seriously this isn't about me or you, so lay off there's more at stake here.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
