Why am I labeled backslid and unusable by God

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Originally Posted by jfrog

1. Your the one that broke the relationship by making it known in your actions that you were interested in another church. Imagine you had been dating a girl for a while and then all of a sudden she catches ya flirting with another girl. Thats exactly what ya did.

As far as visiting another church making your salvation questionable to them, you know that holiness standards are not a trivial matter. I'm sure you've heard of people being condemned to hell for wearing makeup, or pants, or not wearing skirts, or having facial hair, or not having long hair. So if you are visiting a church where those holiness standards are not practiced you know that the implication is that you don't want to practice them either. What's more is that you have admitted this. So yes, in their mind you are on the road to hell but its not simply because you visited a church. It's because you are going to stop practicing all those holiness standards.

2. You are bashing them. Of course I don't believe that was your intent but anytime you speak bad about someone that can be considered bashing. Especially when this forum hears these kind of rants quite regularly. Personally I think its great that you have a place where you can talk about what all is going on and get every possible reaction.

As far as them not treating you right, I'm not sure how else they are supposed to treat you? Just not say anything to you or anyone else about what your doing and their opinions about it?

3. I'm sure no one (including them) wants there to be hurt between you and your old church. Its a rare thing for their to be no hurt though. As far as them seeing your not leaving God, they might, but they will never view you as being as great of a Christian as you were when you were keeping the holiness standards.

4. In most standards churches the keyword is obedience. They want you to obey the holiness standards so you can be holy before God. You don't have to understand everything exactly, you just have to do it. It's the same with baptism, you don't have to understand why it is important, you just have to understand that it is. So of course they were okay with you as long as you were obeying.

Well I hope I didnt come across as bashing anyone, that certainly was not my intent nor is now.