John 8:34
>He who sins is a slave of sin
Why do you keep sinning user? Our Lord wants you to be free.
John 8:34
Jose Jackson
Hunter King
Matthew 6
>19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
>20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
>21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Lincoln Gray
Matthew 11
>28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
>29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
>30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Ayden Watson
We're in the end times friends. Salvation is in Christ Jesus and Him only.
Bentley Long
Stop looking to anything besides what you can prove absolute as yourself.
>:3
Gavin Ortiz
I can't save my own soul.
Xavier Morgan
Luke Flores
Genesis 38
>9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Kevin Cruz
As a man raised catholic, practiced, and followed Christ many things still make little sense OP for ME anyway OP.
I grew up in the inner city (predominately latino / black neighborhood). What fails to make sense to me are those born & living in wealth are already in heaven OP. I question why I must pray daily (often times it makes me feel content on what I’m thankful for) but I feel I’ve been fooled. Those living in financial abundance are in Heaven. Living in luxury while traveling the world witnessing God’s Earth in every coast. While I’m here praying for a raise.
I believe in God, for which God is Love. I do not believe the methods in the bible that keep the begging man content with the scraps the world provides for him.
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Nathaniel Rogers
A lot of Catholic teachings are opposed to Scripture.
Jesus teaches that worldly riches mean little compared to heavenly ones, and to labor not for this life, but for the life that comes after.
Matthew 19
>23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
>24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Jose Edwards
I love the lord but I also love porn. The two kind of contradict each other. I still don't see how God would send me to hell for enjoying the female body. I mean.. he put my desire for women in my head in the first place.. so why punish me for that? I don't go around fucking every female I see, I just enjoy admiring them. So I dunno what to do.
Cameron Lee
Believing in the bible is mental illness.
Kayden Kelly
The problem with modern religion is the people preaching it.
Luis Reyes
Kys
Anthony Hernandez
They fully contradict each other - check Matthew 5.
>28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
>29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
>30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
He doesn't forbid you to enjoy the female body, He just sets some terms for it. You need to be married
Dylan Gomez
Atheism is one of Satan's greatest achievements.
Bless you
Levi Nguyen
I always get this answer and those scriptures recited back to me. I will always fail to grasp the message.
I will follow Jesus. I will follow Love and praise it's results in this world.
I will not follow Bible spewing Christians who fail to grasp 2022 problems that dated scripture cannot explain.
I will commit sin (against my better judgement) and gain wealth by any means (and ask for forgiveness) than be a beggar and scoffed at.
Adrian Evans
If a woman would marry me, i'd be fine being married.. but in 43 years of life, I haven't found a woman that would marry me. Not for a lack of trying.. I've been in 3 long term relationships lasting about 22 years in total among those 3... they always fail and always go to shit. Women always cheat, women always lie, women always make broken promises, and in the end women always want more. So I gave up about 4 years ago.. been single ever since. I haven't had sex since my last girlfriend. so... it's not like i'm out there fucking a bunch of women. I just look at them online. I dunno... God will probably send me to hell... and it upsets me... I wish he didn't invent the desire for women. I wish I hated porn, but I happen to really enjoy it. To me, I'm not doing much of anything wrong. I'm not hurting anyone. I'm not fucking anyone, i'm not out there living a life of debauchery and all that. I just happen to like porn.
Ian Powell
You can live a reasonable life without sinning against God for money. See Matthew 7:24
>No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other, Ye cannot serve God and riches.
Brandon Butler
Define reasonable
Carter Hernandez
You're hurting yourself. Porn is momentary gratification and long term misery. I've been there.
The Lord wants you to be free from sin and He wants to have a relationship with you.
John 15
>9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
>10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
>11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
Cooming is not the only source of happiness, far from it. Knowing the Lord will fill you with joy.
Watching porn isn't worth going to hell. You can have a beautiful, eternal life in Christ.
Matthew 11
>28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
>29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
>30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
And I believe that God can get you a spouse still. Maybe it's a pipe dream but it could be worth a shot.
James 4:8
>Draw near to God and He will draw near to you
The more serious you get with the LORD the more serious He will get with you. Pray, fast, read the Word, and ask the Spirit for help.
Nathaniel Cook
Depending on where you live, you can have a normal salary and normal living conditions without going against God.
Matthew 7
>7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
>8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
>9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
>10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
>11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
If you're lacking, the LORD will provide.
Nathan Wilson
Ethan Miller
Luke 13:5 Repent or perish.
Oliver Stewart
no u
Ethan Young
>Pray, fast, read the Word, and ask the Spirit for help.
I have prayed off and on ALL my life.. and I have never felt like God has heard me... This is PARTLY why I backslide with my faith all the time. I don't feel any divine presence, I don't feel like God hears me, and NONE of my prayers are ever answered.. I always feel like i'm talking to myself. It bothers me... I get that I am a sinner. I've even APOLOGIZED to God and asked him to forgive me.. but where porn is concerned, I ALWAYS go back to it. There have been times where I have tried to avoid it to show God that I am serious, but sooner or later that need/want to see naked females ALWAYS comes back. It's almost worse now that I've been single for a few years. I'm not having sex anymore so I miss the female body. The women I look at online are strangers, I don't know them, I'm never going to know them. I always feel like looking at them is harmless because I'm just sitting alone by myself admiring females from a distance. It's not looking at women in real life, it's just a picture on my screen. I dunno, that's probably me trying to justify it, and I admit it. All I can say is that I've tried to draw near to God SO MANY TIMES throughout my life.. and at times I get on fire for the lord.. I go out of my way to try to be as holy as I can, but it NEVER lasts.. It's almost like I lose interest and the thing is.. I REALLY DO love God. I do! I would swear to it openly. I just happen to like porn. I've even asked God to help me with it but... just doesn't seem to work. Anyway, I appreciate you trying to help. So thank you for that.
Nathaniel Ross
Thou shalt not blasphemy the lord...
It's not my place to judge.. but I agree with this guy:
Connor Brown
Is that am or pm?
Hudson Campbell
Joseph Reed
Jaxon James
>Our Lord wants you to be free.
Why do you worship gravity and the laws of physics?
Noah Anderson
Benjamin Clark
Jaxon Williams
>Pagan henotheism in 2022
No thanks brother
Isaac Wright
Ephesians 6:5-8 Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ
Julian Sullivan
Nathaniel Smith
psalm: Who thy die for the cause is a angel.
Nathaniel Moore
I'm sorry to hear that. But I will press this point just a little bit further.
John 14:15
>“If you love Me, keep My commandments.
I'm confident that the LORD will give you a helping hand if you pray and put in effort.
Personally what helped me overcome porn addiction was fasting (water fast for a couple of days, you will lose much of the urge to coom), spending less time in front of screens (big one honestly), stopping a lustful thought whenever it pops up in my mind, and praying for deliverance from my addiction. For stopping the thought, if I can't just dismiss it when it pops up, I even pinch or hit myself and that helps divert my thoughts from lust.
You know, it may be a two step forward, one step back kind of deal. You may have success that way. You just need to not give up.
Another thing that you might find helpful is promising God in the morning that you won't do it that day, and then don't break it. Do it as often as you think you can, and eventually get to every day, until you feel like you can stop altogether.
Most important thing, WHEN YOU FALL DOWN, GET UP AND KEEP GOING.
Matthew 16:24
>Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
May the LORD be with you user.
Kayden Hughes
Laws don't write themselves. A law requires a lawmaker.
picrel
Luis Lopez
He who Christcucks is a slave to the cross.
Alexander Collins
All of those things are supported by evidence, though. The bible isn't
Carter Brown
Luke Peterson
Jordan Bailey
It absolutely is. There's plenty of historical evidence for Jesus.
He is the most written of person in the ancient world.
Jace Sullivan
If you studied Christianity even for a moment you'd see that this is dumb.
But you don't care, you just want to be an ass.
Matthew 18:14
>“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Alexander Harris
None from his lifetime, but even having historical attestation of Jesus says nothing about his divinity or prophethood. I doubt you'd give prophet status to Muhammed just because he's a person who most likely lived.
Nicholas Fisher
I’d be more inclined to take Christians seriously if they weren’t out acting like cunts all the time. As it stands you fucks have as much credibility as any other serial rapist out there. Why should you baby rapers be given even the benefit of doubt?
Juan Cox
Jaxon Nguyen
What part of that was untrue exactly?
Josiah Murphy
>if you’d just turn your brain off it all makes sense!
Levi Jenkins
You come here and force your bullshit down other people's throates, so now I'm going to force his creamy goodness down yours.
IT'S SLIDDING TIME
David Martinez
There are literally zero contemporary writing sources from the supposed time of Christ's life. The fraudulent Josephus' scarce mentions of his name were well after his supposed death.
The bible is the claim. Not the evidence.
Jonathan Thomas
There's a resurrection-shaped hole in history.
Picrel is a qrd of some of the historical evidence; there's much, much more.
Jordan King
God didn't give birth to Himself.
God didn't make any mistake when making us.
We condemn ourselves by sinning.
Lincoln Walker
But I don't sin.i mean maybe by your definition. But why would I care for your definition. I'm not a religious nut job.
Asher Jackson
Tacitus writes about Jesus.
Lucian of Samosata writes about Jesus.
Mara bar Serapion writes about Jesus.
The Talmud mentions Jesus. Just off the top of my head.
Also, "the bible" isn't written like a singular book. The New Testament is a collection of manuscripts from different parts of the world, written by different people (many of whom did not know each other), talking about the same thing. You can't just dismiss all of them because they're in the same collection of texts called the Bible.
Luis Fisher
Neither am I. Jesus hated religion.
I simply follow Jesus and what He teaches - He rose from the dead and thereby proved His teachings are true.
Evan Wilson
There is zero historical evidence of Jesus, and virtually nobody from his time wrote about him. I'm not anti religion but come on don't just blatantly lie
Liam Watson
See
Blake Rodriguez
Talmud doesn't mention Jesus just to chime in. Its a different Yeshua, Theory aren't the same person
Michael Price
Three people isn't "plenty"
Elijah Miller
And that's exactly why the Greek testament isn't trustworthy. Trust an addition to the Hebrew scripture written in Greek, which is a patchwork of things from various parts of the world, with the commensurate scriptural interpretation made by someone who never met Jesus? No thanks. The book is riddled with mistakes. Doesn't even get the burial place of the patriarch's correct.
Anthony Robinson
>trusting Matthew when blatantly misconstrues and misquotes scripture to prove his christology
Worst possible person to quote
Elijah White
There's a reason you posted a screenshot and not a link
Kayden Campbell
i try but im weak to the temptation of satan
Adrian Evans
The Talmud mentions Jesus the Nazarene, a certain "sorcerer".
It records Him teaching, healings being performed in His name, and it mentions Him being executed, among other things.
Remind you of someone?
Jaxon Watson
Fast, pray for deliverance and read the Word.
James 4:8
>Draw close to God and He will draw close to you
He who endures to the end shall be saved. May the LORD be with you brother.
Lucas Taylor
Yes, because I wrote all of it in a notepad and I can't copy that many characters. Most of it is taken from William Lane Craig's scholarly work. Check it out.
Adrian Cruz
Benjamin Parker
The Old Testament isn't written by one person either.
The Gospel writers were either eyewitnesses to Jesus' life themselves or were in firsthand contact with those who were. That is invaluable for a historical document, and was rare for ancient world sources.
James Stewart