God LOVES You!

Thank you brother. Some won’t agree but until one feels the grace of God they won’t understand. I feel nothing but compassion for those who are still wayward. They are dipshites but so was I once. No ill will towards the wayward. This life is short and eternity Is long. I hope everyone can find peace in Jesus.

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This post started out as political

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No it didn't.

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God LOVES You!

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yep

and beer is proof of that

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If only he loved Kobe, his daughter, and their friends just a tiny bit more...

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The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
Isaiah 57:1-2

“ For on what account, tell me, do you thus weep for one departed? Because he was a bad man? You ought on that very account to be thankful, since the occasions of wickedness are now cut off. Because he was good and kind? If so, you ought to rejoice; since he has been soon removed, before wickedness had corrupted him: and he has gone away to a world where he stands ever secure, and there is no room even to mistrust a change. Because he was a youth? For that, too, praise Him who has taken him, because He has speedily called him to a better lot. Because he was an aged man? On this account, also, give thanks and glorify Him that has taken him. Be ashamed of your manner of burial. The singing of psalms, the prayers, the assembling of the [spiritual] fathers and brethren—all this is not that you may weep and lament and afflict yourselves, but that you may render thanks to Him who has taken the departed. For as when men are called to some high office multitudes with praises on their lips assemble to escort them at their departure to their stations, so do all with abundant praise join to send forward, as to greater honor, those of the pious who have departed.

Death is rest; a deliverance from the exhausting labors and cares of this world. When, then, thou seest a relative departing, yield not to despondency; give thyself to reflection; examine thy conscience; cherish the thought that after a little while this end awaits thee also. Be more considerate; let another’s death excite thee to salutary fear; shake off all indolence; examine your past deeds; quit your sins, and commence a happy change.

We differ from unbelievers in our estimate of things. The unbeliever surveys the heavens and worships it because he thinks it a divinity; he looks to the earth and makes himself a servant to it, and longs for the things of sense. But not so with us. We survey the Heaven, and admire Him that made it; for we believe it not to be a god, but a work of God. I look on the whole creation and am led by it to the Creator. He looks on wealth and longs for it with earnest desire; I look on wealth and contemn it. He sees poverty and laments; I see poverty and rejoice. I see things in one light; he in another.

Just so in regard to death. He sees a corpse and thinks of it as a corpse; I see a corpse and behold sleep rather than death. And as in regard to books, both learned persons and unlearned see them with the same eyes, but not with the same understanding—for to the unlearned the mere shapes of letters appear, while the learned discover the sense that lies within those letters; so in respect to affairs in general, we all see what takes place with the same eyes, but not with the same understanding and judgment. Since, therefore, in all other things we differ from them, shall we agree with them in our sentiments respecting death?

Consider to whom the departed has gone and take comfort. He has gone where Paul is, and Peter; and the whole company of the saints. Consider how he shall arise, and with what glory and splendor!”

The Blessings of Death
St. John Chrysostom
~ 380 A.D.

My whole life I have believed in God. And heaven and hell. But I’m so broken these days I don’t know what to believe. More days then most, I want to put a gun to my head

Been there and then He stepped in, in the middle of it and put into my heart that I should live and tell others of my saving grace.

Let him in and give all your being to Him and He will direct your path away from those things giving you peace in knowing you have salvation now and forever in the shared Glory of Jesus Christ.

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But I’m so broken these days I don’t know what to believe. More days then most, I want to put a gun to my head

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Into everyone's life shite falls. We often see others and think their lives are going so well but rarely do we see the secret strife they may be dealing with.

I don't know you nor know what you're going through, only that I've been through utter lows in my life as well and what kept me going was the firm belief that what I was going through would someday lead me to something better. It's not always going to be obvious and it's not always going to be quick (it took me 20 years) but it can happen.

Good luck to you.

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I’m a Christian. And my God requires that I love everyone. I may not like their behavior or decisions, but I want eternal life, peace, and happiness for every human soul that will ever exist.

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One of the main worries about A.I. taking over humanity is this: It may decide, in a completely altruistic fashion, that the way to end all human suffering, poverty and misery is to kill everyone. Religions sound very altruistic, too.

God bless you

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believed in God. And heaven and hell.

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Even the devil believes in God.

Get on your knees, tell him you’re a sinner and you wish to repent your sins, tell him you accept the blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a whole and complete sacrifice in exchange for your forgiveness for those sins. Ask him to send the Holy Spirit into your heart so that you could not just believe in God but so that you can experience a relationship with him and in your daily life. Then the joy of the Lord will be upon you.

Praying for you now