morning cepha-------------
blocks of stumbling ,brother-----deep breath and let it go
much love----------------knuckle
You are right.
I will.
I'm just like my Confirmation namesake...Peter.
I'm stubborn to the core.
I hold on to things just past too long.
But the pattern is established and my small idea of forming a community where unrestricted ideas could be exchanged is working.
This isn't about everybody having to agree. It's about us being able to share our beliefs under an umbrella of mutual respect. The Anti-Catholics have no place here. Neither would Anti-Protestants. I wouldn't allow it.
I want this place to reflect an idea of what Jesus might have actually had when He walked the earth.
I feel bad a lot of times when I say things out of hurt feelings (when someone hurts my feelings and I retaliate). I never feel good. I never feel like I win. It's a battle of egos and I always have to win. l need to learn how to lose.
Anyway, good riddens for the Anti-Catholics. We don't need their ilk here. They poison the water and almost never have anything positive or productive to add to the conversation.
I liken this process to growing pains. We have to weed out (even within ourselves) the inate desire to be on top. We have to diminish ourselves so that Jesus can increase in us.
Now that it seems that the Anti-Catholics have come and gone (even though I was the one who actively rectruited them to come here), I guess we can focus on beginning to consolidate the flock we have left...The Goats are gone. Let The Sheep graze.
I'm going to start a whole new series of posts geared towards bringing about a common understanding.
I'm going to leave all my errors up. I won't delete the wrong things I've said or the improper ways that I have acted. I need to be held to that account and I need for it to be kept fresh in my mind so that I won't forget and repeat the same mistakes.
Truth be told, I liked Emily a lot. I tested her to her brink and she passed all the time. I respect her decision to leave.
But mark my words, at the very least now she has something, some foundation to compare all the misindoctrination that she is receiving.
I'm sure the first thing she went to do when she got off of hear was to go and research the passages I gave her about The Priests being commanded by God to wear Scarlet and Red on thieir Vestments. That had to set her Anti-Catholic training back a spell. How could she reconcile conjecture (Rev quote) VS actual literal instructions by God Himself?
She now has to question why she wasn't taught that verse in The Bible when God revealed how He wanted His Priests to be adorned. She now has to compare a vague verse to an actual word for word literal verse regarding a false allegation she was taught and her heart will have to decide...which does she choose? The verse she was taught by Anti-Catholics? Or the actual Word of God?
Why am I harping on this? Because...it is an example of a pattern of behaviour from good hearted Christians who are misled into believing things that aren't true about other Christians. This is Satan's work...to divide The Flock of Christ, like a wolf in sheeps clothing, whispering untruths to lure away unsuspecting sheep where they can later be ravened.
God bless you Emily, where ever you are. You might get that warm and fuzzy feeling when you go to church, you might get emotional when you worship God together with them, but The Nazi's and those who followed Jim Jones also felt that exact same way.
I have chosen to walk the hard path. I have chosen to go to a Church where I'm not guaranteed Salvation regardless of how many times I sin, but where my condemnation to hell is ready to be told to me if I dont strive to walk a greater walk with Christ.
The only warm feelings I get I get from The Holy Spirit.
Of course, her church has Christ. But unfortunately, Satan doesn't discriminate and he loves to work among those who are outside of The Church even more. It's easier for him.
I had hoped she would've gotten a great laugh from the videos I posted to her and she would've had her heart softened, but hey, I gotta respect he beliefs. She's doing the right thing for her.
I love her.
I do.
I miss her. Because she wasn't corrupted by those who are set out to mislead, her heart is still pure. She's just dancing with certain truths that she never knew before.
Read her posts and you'll see her level of spiritual maturity and how it's grown exponentially since she got here. She herself grew. The only thing that knocked her back into the weeds was her playing the ace she thought she had up her sleeve and all her false accusations being answered one by one with scripture.
And her pride took over since she couldn't accept the proofs and she left.
I know she lurks here. And that's ok too. If she never comes back, I know she'll be ok.
And I know that she got her eyes opened up a lot here.
