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Bible Discussion / Re: How Churchgoers see repentance in a nutshell

« on: June 20, 2021, 04:03:21 PM »

The doctrine of repentance is certainly the line drawn in the sand when it comes to Christians and churchgoers. Hey when you brought up the greek game i thought of the old preacher and the church i first went to he said something like "the greek word for continue is" insert greek word here "and that means continue to continue, continue forever, continue to infinity!!!!" so basically the guy meant the greek word means continue haha.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: New Member

« on: June 20, 2021, 03:48:30 PM »

Sorry the last reply was to you Rowan. Thanks for replying also i dont think the games i play are a bad thing just the balance between amusing myself and actually doing good works and also my conduct when im playing the games like getting pissed off and things of that nature.

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Bible Discussion / alcohol

« on: June 20, 2021, 02:56:43 PM »

Something ive flip flopped on more times i can count is whether or not alcohol is ok to drink. Ive never been addicted to alcohol but my mother died from liver failure so i understand the dangers of alcohol. Ive had the more liberal stance of alcohol that God doesnt care as long as im not a drunk and ive had the stance of alcohol is never ok no matter what. In the past i have compared alcohol to pot saying if alcohols ok pot must be too. Not true by the way pot is a whole other subject ill explain a little more why a little later. Anyway I do now believe i have a proper understanding of alcohol. I believe alcohol is intended to be a blessing.
    Deuteronomy 14 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household.
This passage is something i could never explain when i had the stance of alcohol is never ok but one passage i used to kind of counter this passage is proverbs 23 verse 29
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

When analyzing this passage and looking at the context of what kind of person its referring to in this case being They that tarry long at the wine and they that go seek mixed wine it sounds like when its speaking directly to this type of person perhaps an alcoholic not to look upon the wine.
I also think pot is a whole different subject because although i used to say years ago when i was addicted to pot "the bible never talks about weed man" I now would tell my past self that argument can be used against pot also as its never explained to be a blessing as i believe alcohol has been. Feel free to correct me if im wrong on anything.

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Bible Discussion / Canaanite wedding

« on: June 20, 2021, 01:53:57 PM »

I was shocked the first time i heard this. So I always wondered why Christ said he doesnt know the day he would come back well this sure explains alot. So the canaanite wedding was very different in regards of tradition. Basically the groom would present the bride with a glass of wine and if the bride refused they would leave it and they would not marry but if the bride drank they would accept the offer of marriage. Then the bride and groom would depart while the groom went to prepare a place for the bride and the father of the groom would be the one that calls the groom when its time for them to get married and the bride would literally stand ready at any time to be called even going as far as sleeping in her wedding dress. It could be a day it could be months or years but whenever the time the father of the groom decides he tells the groom go get your bride.
     That floored me when i first heard it because i just thought of it as something that no man could ever come up with on theyre own. I mean thats just brilliant and i think symbolism like this is on a whole other level. Im sure i dont need to explain Christ is the groom God the Father is the father of the groom and the bride is the church but ill put it here anyway.

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General Discussion / Re: Covid-19

« on: June 20, 2021, 01:06:21 PM »

The covid thing is something that makes me so mad. I hate talking to people about it because its like talking to a wall

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Introduce Yourself / Re: New Member

« on: June 20, 2021, 01:01:47 PM »

When i got into andersons doctrine i just came out of being completely backsliden. I fully believe Christ drove me to complete and utter madness I wasnt quite at the point of eating grass like cattle but i was totally bonkers. After that i went back to my old congregation and shortly left after the preacher said something along the lines of "Salvation is like Jesus paid 99 percent of the bill and we have to pay the remaining 1 percent with our works" which i knew was heresy. I even told some people in there that salvation is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast and they told me "i wish that were the case" not gonna lie I laughed when they said that. I looked up once saved always saved as i never actually heard what that was about as i only heard about it from people that thought if you believed that your going to hell and thats when anderson popped up and i clung to that for a while because i thought everyone that doesnt believe once saved always saved were just a cult. I mean i personally to this day believe in eternal security but i dont think thats the deciding factor of whether or not someones saved because really no matter what someone believes if they come to repentance and believe on Christ theyre still saved. Anyway I really liked anderson as i thought of him as a comedian along with being a preacher because i have a strange since of humor. I never really bought into the gays have no hope thing but for some reason thought it was funny how over the top his stance on it was. like its pretty obvious romans 1 isnt taking about homosexuals themselves but anyway i had alot to repent over when i came out of that. The interesting part about the 2 different cults ive been apart of is although they both were on opposite sides of the spectrum and they would both think the other one was going to hell they basically believe the same sort of thing. Both of these cults believe as the pharisees do. They believe they have the truth and everyone else is wrong.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: New Member

« on: June 20, 2021, 01:48:41 AM »

Yeah Kenneth I feel insincere when i ask God for help sometimes though. like deep down i just wanna take the easy road instead of doing my job. Dont get me wrong i wanna be sincere and theres no greater joy than seeing someone saved but i hate dealing with people. I have no patience and i dont know how to actually want to change. It sucks though because i know what the Lord has done for me and how much patience hes had with me and i grieve over this daily but its been years. When i first got saved i loved giving the gospel now its just something i do every once in a while half hearted.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: New Member

« on: June 20, 2021, 12:14:23 AM »

Yeah Chris but I gotta be real with you I dont feel as though I do nearly enough as I should and I feel as though if someone examined my present lifestyle from the outside you wouldnt find much evidence that im a Christian. Sometimes I examine myself  and I see a lack of care and love for people around me and all i wanna do is get home from work and distance myself from the world and play video games with my unsaved friends online. I feel as though no matter what approach  I take to try to share the gospel I end up going in my own strength and failing miserably. Its something that has weighted heavily on me for years and pretty much everytime ive had a bit of sanctification God has basically had to force my hand because im so stubborn which praise him for that but I dont think ive given anything up in my life willingly.

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General Discussion / Re: Video Games: Causing Witchcraft to Prosper

« on: June 19, 2021, 11:55:58 PM »

Im not sure if its wrong but romans 14 20 says
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin

I think verse 23 shows that if God is convicting you of something then going against your conscience is sin. I know this is easier said then done but examine whether or not the game goes against your conscience. I play alot of online shooters like pubg games like that are my favorite hobby and i dont feel as though the game itself is bad but I waste alot more time on that game than I should and I get very angry at it which certainly goes against my conscience so something needs to change for me also. 

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Introduce Yourself / New Member

« on: June 19, 2021, 10:53:12 PM »

Hi my name is Dylan I first found this ministry on youtube. I first came to repentance at 18 and Im 28 now and I always wondered what I went through actually was because I didnt realize repentance was the word used to describe that. I wasnt raised in church but one week I went after my wifes brother also one of my best buddies died. What I experienced that day was nothing short of supernatural I heard the preacher but its like I also heard another voice revealing my sin to me for the first time and I felt so guilty. I actually thought someone was messing with me I said to myself theres no way. I felt as though someone in the crowd knew my sin and somehow everyone knew exactly who I was. I went back the next week and I cant remember if it was that week or the week after I wept like never before and I asked God for mercy. Later down the line I had greatly backslid and I claimed not to be a believer anymore and that continued for a couple years until I went into madness and the Lord brought me to humility yet again. I went back to the church I was at before and found out it was basically a cult and left but it was kind of an out of the frying pan into the furnace scenario because I started buying into the Anderson cult. Anderson was the first one that turned me on to eternal security and was one of the main reasons I listened to him. I thought i myself was evidence of eternal security because if you can lose your salvation I definitely wouldve lost it by now. I listened to him for a while until I asked God to show me the truth. Lets just say my prayers were answered because God revealed to me Andersons doctrine is trash. Once I started realizing almost every doctrine he has is wrong I tried to go to others with the same type of doctrine till realized all of the people in the new ifb basically praise anderson as a pope and never go against his doctrine finally I typed Steven Anderson false teacher into the youtube search bar and Chris Johnsons video popped up and I think at that point he had just got done finishing the wolves in costume series. So I listened to it and I saw the repentance teaching and that made total since to me as I always wondered why alot of other people didnt have that same grief and sorrow I had when I first believed and even during my time I claimed not to believe I would lay awake at night thinking about that moment and I would know I was in rebellion because that moment to me was undeniable proof that God exists and the bible is true. Anyway ive been listening for a while and I need a community as ive been out of church for a while and mean that as both church buildings and an actual church.