Preaching fire and brimstone to young, confused and naive children when they turn to you for advice and help in what is surely a very scary time is despicable. I suggest in the future you direct their questions to reliable medical sites that might actually help them with their problems rather than scare them into the obedience of the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus taught forgiveness; according to the Bible, anyone accepting Jesus into their heart as their personal savior is good to go. With that in mind, I’m going to carry on having sex with my boyfriend at every opportunity. I suggest you find some better way to serve the Lord that doesn’t involve bullying (for the most part) minors.<\/p>\n\t
“He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death<\/em>” (Revelation 21:7-8).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It appears to me that the person who is confused and very naive is the young lady who thinks she can ignore God, purposely go against His teachings, and still be welcomed into His home.<\/p>\n
“Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off<\/em>” (Romans 11:22).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You may suggest whatever you please, but I’ve learned along time ago that I only listen to my Master. “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen<\/em>” (I Peter 4:11). He doesn’t want people to throw away their lives. “‘Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord GOD. ‘Therefore turn and live!’<\/em>” (Ezekiel 18:30-32).<\/p>\n
My duty, therefore, is to teach the message of God so that they might be saved. Ignoring people’s sins and telling them that they are accepted while they wallow in filth will not bring them out of sin. The Bible does not<\/strong>\u00a0teach that anyone accepting Jesus into their heart as their personal savior is going to heaven. It doesn’t even say that such will save you. The very concept doesn’t appear anywhere in the Bible. “Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles–when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries<\/em>” (I Peter 4:1-3). How silly would I be to take the advice of an unrepentant sinner on how to teach the gospel of God?<\/p>\n
“Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness–indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God<\/em>” (Romans 2:4-11).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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