In my administration of the Good News Cafe I have always striven to be fair.
I never banned anyone for doctrinal differences. But I DID ban anyone who used those differences as a means to be abusive.
These forums may well have ben a factor in my undoing as far a Christianity is concerned... I believe Jesus was. I believe he was a really swell dude. Do I believe he was God?
No. Do I believe he would be appalled by most of the junk I read here? Yup.
Sorry folks. I am into spring water, not koolaid.
I don't regret my time as a Pentecostal, and that is difficult because I sometimes feel my life was, wasted on that,. But . I stopped believing in a god ten years ago. but I liked the culture, people like FlamingZword are the primary reason I left..
If you don't believe in God y are you hanging around here wasting your time?
maybe I like some of the people, spending time with people you love is never a waste of time, some of the folks on this forum and I have a history going back many years.
Last edited by OneEyedFatMan; 04-06-2013 at 12:07 PM.
maybe I like some of the people, spending time with people you love is never a waste of time, some of the folks on this forum and I have a history going back many years.
You said you feel like 20 years of your life was wasted in a Pentecostal church and I'm sure you loved those people.
You said you feel like 20 years of your life was wasted in a Pentecostal church and I'm sure you loved those people.
You say loved like it is past tense. I sa LOVE. it is something I currently feel. I told my ex-wife that I love her recently on facebook, something that got me really in trouble. Love isn't something you can put on and take off like a pair of pants, Well hometown guy, I'll terll ya i HATE my hometown, I got out of there as quick as I could, I go back there to visit people I love. But I do not love the rednecks that live there. Or their great big gas guzzling trucks.
Last edited by OneEyedFatMan; 04-06-2013 at 01:41 PM.
You say loved like it is past tense. I sa LOVE. it is something I currently feel. I told my ex-wife that I love her recently on facebook, something that got me really in trouble. Love isn't something you can put on and take off like a pair of pants
Totally had nothing to do with what I asked or my comment.
Totally had nothing to do with what I asked or my comment.
He said he still loves some of them...........
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
ou didn't really ask a question.
Do I feel like I wasted 20 years of my life in pentecodt?
Yes.
Do I love the people I came to know during that?
Yes
Where do you get a contradiction?
I think the idea is that if you formed relationships with people that you love, it wasn't a total waste.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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