*shrugs* The people who do care aren't worth your time.
On the topic of women that care about virginity, some of them aren't completely biased, but virginity is still a big deal for a guy. There are people still single now because the failure creation known as 'humanity' needs to keep coming up with ways to put one group of people down and put themselves up. My dating pool will shrink to a spec if I admit that I'm a virgin up front. Some things you just don't tell people.
Jesus came to me, completely transformed my mind, gave me a new life, new friends, and a new purpose. And the secular world has only been getting worse over the past several years.
I'm happy for you, but as for the next quote...
That's more than enough proof that the Bible is 100% true.
No, it really isn't. Is that proof God exists? Possibly, sure. Does that prove every single solitary word in the Bible? No. If I became a Christian right now, I could still not believe the Earth is just 6,000 years old and all that. Some people believe in God via creation itself, and not exactly because of any Christian reasons.
I do, because I was an athiest once. And waiting on God also involves action and doing His will in other aspects of your life. It doesn't involve idleness.
I can absolutely agree with this, but only because that's how life works overall, God or not.
So, it's not okay for a woman to be raped, but it is okay to kill a defenseless baby.
I'm sorry, but this statement is a bit loaded. The Bible makes absolutely no mention of abortion, with the closest topic being on murder. We are talking about something that cannot feel pain, cannot think, is just a mass of molecules (at the early stages). Us pro-choice people don't walk around thinking, "Oh boy, ain't it great to kill babies?!" No, the context is the following: "It is a woman's right to choose, especially if she was raped and does not want the baby." In most cases, if the baby is at a late trimester, I would be anti-abortion then.
It seems like a lot of anti-abortionists just think, "It's murder." and then just stop there without thinking about anything else. The raped woman could have all these diseases that would pass on to the baby and completely destroy their life, that person can also grow up and think, "Oh god, I'm a product of rape. My life is a lie." Maybe it's an older woman that can't give birth as it would kill her. If I was a woman that went through incestrial rape, and then I was told I had to just suck it up and deal with it, and just let the baby form inside me and painfully birth it because "that's what God wants", I'd never want to even look at another Christian person ever again. Better that kid get a quick trip to heaven. Sometimes, going through these religious-friendly choices don't lead to the best outcome.
Both of those sound pretty horrible to me. Two wrongs don't make a right.
One is worse than the other.
It's better than a lifetime of knowing you didn't wait out nine months and allow a child a chance at life.
A "chance at life" isn't always a good thing. Not aborting a child can lead to one having to be brought up in an extremely bad environment, causing that person to be scarred forever. People talk about life like it's a gift, it is not a gift for some people.
Like? God considers every human being born to be precious. It doesn't matter how they came to be.
Yeah, that's real nice. God isn't the one who has to be brought up in bad environments, we do.
Still not an excuse for killing a child. While it's awful if such a woman goes through that, we're called to live sacrificially as well. If I was a woman carrying a child I couldn't survive giving birth to, but there's a chance the child would survive, I'd give my life for it. Doesn't matter how I got it. It would still be a part of me. It would still be God's precious son or daughter.
That line of thought works for you, but again, adoption or not, birthing an unwanted child can still lead to more negatives than positives. Not every woman is gonna think, "Well, my body is on the verge of collapsing, but the child (that I didn't ask for)
could survive, so I'll just see what happens =)."
It isn't just "Christianity" says so. It's God who says so.
That's what I meant...
I just find it interesting how men seem to be at the forefront of abortion, in "defense of women" at then go and assault women who dare speak against them.
What are you talking about..? What do you mean by "assault"?
You just seem so adamant about defending a woman's right to choose while other women, who would know far more than you and I will ever know about the subject, would say the same as me. We push abortion to "protect women" but we're actually doing them harm.
Of course I'd defend that, like I kept repeating, I would hate to be forced into carrying a rapist's child that I had to painfully birth out because 'that counts as murder!!' Is there any further proof of that beyond what the Bible says? The Bible does not mention abortions, just killing in general, and Christians connect
that to abortion. In the early stages, it's just a mass of flesh. How are we doing them harm? Because we are saying it's okay for them to "kill babies"?
By allowing abortion an inch, the ways of the world take a mile. In earlier days, many men didn't indulge on their desire for women simply because they don't want to get one pregnant and have to take responsibility. So, by allowing abortion, men are given incentive to rape, because in a world that normalizes abortion and treats children made through rape as disposable, they wouldn't have to deal with the responsibility or guilt of bringing a child into the world. Nothing would stop them. It wouldn't matter if they got caught. By minimizing the damage they do, we've given these kinds of men more free reign to harm these women and put them into the position you describe.
Wow, this is a new one. So wait, because we live in a world where abortion is available, that makes some men want to rape more because it will be less likely that they have a kid to take care of? I mean... I guess? That's oddly specific, and I'd say that rape is usually because these men want to get their sexual pleasure by force. Abortion or not, these guys usually bolt to avoid consequences. Unless you're taking about abusive boyfriends/husbands or something.
I'd give anything to go back in time and make sure I was aborted.
We prevent abortion to protect women. Not to force them into something they don't want to do.
Huh..?? Preventing abortion makes women have to deal with having a baby they never wanted.
They got to go to Heaven. That is far from nothing. Our life on earth isn't meant about "getting" anything. It's to glorify God and live selflessly for others. Heaven is our reward.
Other people around the world aren't getting that memo, especially ones that are disconnected from normal societies and might have never heard about God.
Him even wanting to betray the Son of God would imply that Satan had influence over Him.
It was implied throughout the Bible that he didn't revere Jesus as much as the others and never truly believed. He was a prime candidate for Satan to use.
Either way, it wouldn't have mattered if Judas betrayed Jesus or not. Jesus would still have to be crucified and die for our sins.
So Judas basically just sped up the process then?
The snake wasn't a stuffed animal. Don't know what you're referring to here. For some reason I couldn't help but think of Calvin and Hobbes though. Heh.
You missed the point I was making. I'm preeeeeetty sure the snake in the Bible wasn't stuffed, that's not what I said. I was talking about the example you made where my parents would tell me not to do something, then I did it, then got in trouble. There's no way that Adam and Eve were gonna procreate, make all these people, but that tree would just sit there untouched.
You're assuming God wouldn't know what to do once the world was filled. He made other planets for a reason. He might've had us expand to other planets or even brought forth His kingdom at another point.
So there could be billions or trillions of us, and God wanted that tree untouched. Are you seeing why us atheists think most of the Bible is just fairy tales?
That's still lying. Could you give me an example of what you're talking about? Because you can be polite to someone without lying.
I was talking about my awesome curse where something humiliating happens in front of attractive women, and I have to lie around it to reduce the embarrassment. Lying is not always a bad thing.
God makes the seemingly impossible, possible.
I wouldn't hold my breath either way.
Could you explain to me what you're talking about here? I can sympathize there.
It seems like every female that has existed for more than 8 seconds is taken. That's why I said it feels like I'm in the matrix where other people have these predetermined outcomes where someone goes from single to not single in an instant, like a movie starting from the middle and not the start. And the women who aren't taken will lie and say, "Sorry I have a boyfriend." to not sound as mean when rejecting me. So I just don't try. That's why I tell my father that the last name dies with me. It's not that pedestalize women, I just see myself as a lower D- product, so women should get an A+ one instead. It's almost like I'm doing them a favor but in the worst, saddest way ever.
We rejoice always in the Lord. He doesn't expect us to just grin and bear it or pretend everything's alright though. In fact He wants us to be honest about our feelings and how hard life can be. You can talk to Him about anything. You can express your confusion, your anger, your sadness, whatever's bothering you. You can trust Him with all your problems. He's our Savior. He's our friend. He loves us more than we can ever know.
I wish I could believe this, but I would find that hard to believe if I got cancer or something, and saw everyone else live on while I didn't get to.
He experienced the death of a trusted friend and wept before bringing him back to life. He saw how hard life was for people who couldn't see or walk. And when a man asked Him to help his unbelief, He did so.
Jesus came not to heal the healthy, but to heal the sick. Physically and spiritually. Even if your life is awful, even if you struggle with unbelief, doubt, misery, ect. Jesus is always there for you. He loves you always. And that's more than any of us can ask for.
And even if you backslide and turn from Him, He'll wait for you to come back. Much like the father of the prodigal son.
You know, you said you had some sort of addiction to porn or something. I can't remember if you said that, or if another who posted before you did. So once you became a Christian, these addictions just suddenly stopped happening?