(September 13, 2017 at 10:58 pm)Godscreated Wrote:(September 10, 2017 at 1:25 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: A christian can sew seeds to the flesh all week then go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. I can't do that.
I have to be able to look myself in the mirror and be honest about the person I'm looking at. I have to be able to sleep with myself at night.
To go back to church now and "rest in god's forgiveness" would be like tasting the red pill and trying to go back to the blue pill. Like tasting reality and trying to go back to the illusion.
Hold onto your illusion if that's what you need to do, but I'm unwilling to go through the effort it would take to psyche myself out that way.
And when you find yourself in judgement before the God of salvation what then, this stuff you posted want mean one thing then. You still haven't shown that you haven't sinned, on the contrary you did without using the word sin, very clever of you.
The reason God wants us to ask for forgiveness, because He wants us to examine ourselves and see where we need to improve our lives, we have to examine before we can ask for forgiveness. By the way we do not have to wait for a Sunday morning service to do so, like many atheist here like to say we're to do it in the quite of our home. You try to make asking God to forgive us for our sins against Him as some kind of "get out of jail free card," it's not that way, asking is part of the living relationship with Him. To bad you missed this part of the Christian life. I'll gladly "rest in God's forgiveness," it's the only way to eternal life, judgment day awaits and I would rather not be part of what you are asking for. I have no illusion to hold onto, I hold to the truth of Christ, something that's more real than you or I.
GC
Blah blah blah. Big-headed GC knows the mind of god. We've heard it before and we don't care.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
