Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity

[Mudhammam]

Thus far in my walk, I have only been made stronger and edified in numerous ways as a result of denying the desires of my flesh and living a life in the service of others. It has been denonstrated through research that those who volunteer in the service of others on a regular basis are more healthy and happier than those who do not.

When I compare my former life of drunkeness, drug abuse, chasing women, selfishness, and self-centeredness with my life now, the difference is as wide as the sea.

Your arrogance arises from an innate failure to recognize that your capability for self-control was always possible even apart from your belief in Christianity. Your former lifestyle, which you've probably come to associate with unbelief, has nothing to do with atheism any more than love and charity is uniquely Christian. Only in your imagination does a causal link exist between belief in Jesus and being happy.

All Christians are to be celibate in the sense of abstaining from sexual intercourse outside the bounds of marriage.

My girlfriend and I are celibate. We have moments of fleshly weakness no doubt, but our committment to honor God has brought us closer together and made our bond stronger for we are partners in the endeavor together.

On what basis do you define marriage? A monogamous commitment? A piece of paper sanctioned by the US Government?

We receive strength every time we resist temptation and are living proof that through Christ we can do all things. Are we perfect? By no means,

In other words, you can't do all things...just the things most people are able to do by their own will power.

and we have given in at times. However the few moments of pleasure we experince are nothing when compared with the peace and joy of being in the will of God.

i.e. will of yourself that in your "humility" see simultaneously as the "will of God."

When I say that if you reject Christ and die in this state that you will not be with Him in eternity, this is what hell is, i.e. existing apart from the immediate presence of God, then it seems to me you should understand that this is something that the despiser of Christ would want.

Who's Christ? The one you made up when you interpreted the writings of other people's made up Christ? No one here despises the historical Jesus any more than we despise the historical George Phillip Johnson II. Who's George Phillip Johnson II? No idea and don't care.

If a person mocks and spits on my pathetic and petty version of Christ as vile it is clear that spending an eternity with Him would be the last thing that this person would want! That would be hell for such a one.

That's better.

God gives everyone exactly what they want. He loves you too much to force you to be with Him.

That's comforting.

I do not agree with your lifestyle in the sense that you a man have sexual intercourse with another man and then think this is something that you need to tell people as if it is something they need to know.

Why does anyone need to know your lifestyle choices, such as your celibacy or superstitious rituals?

It advocates punishing people for instinctual thoughts?

Is lust not instinctual?

And yes, lusting after a person in your heart is the same in God's sight as if you had done it actually. God's standards of righteousness are not our standards and rightfully so.

Oh okay.