Saving sex for marriage... Avoiding Lust

[Calmador]

akuseru said:

Calmador said:

For the record, I say what I say because I know he exists. I also say it because the teachings make sense in avoiding evil actions. (ie Don't obessively think sexually about the opposite sex) I also say what I say based off results on myself and others. I want that to be remembered.

Also, I mentioned a scene where Jesus whiped manipulative merchants that were tricking poor people. That clearly showed that the God does not approve of manipulating people for power. Yet, you couldn't accept that. I might understand how other things I've said are harder for you to accept but not that one. Anyways...

I guess we're done here. I'll see you around

I have a question for you OP, based on your believes in general.

Looking at your profile, I see you mention RTS, FPS and Fighting as your favourite genres in gaming (as well as RPGs). As a servant of this GOD you speak of, how can you enjoy genres games that pretty much all 'glorify' violence, killing, murder and war? Have not GOD taught you that 'thou shall not kill'? How does GOD feel about this? Would not all this virtual violence be compared to 'engaging in adultery with their hearts' in GOD's eyes? I know for sure that if I was GOD, I would be heavily disappointed in you and banish you from Heaven and send you to the pits of hell!

But as any religious person I have met, I guess you are just being selective with your believes, and follow only what suits YOU (i.e being selfish) and being a complete hypocrite.

Also, I will share you something about my experience with GOD, and hopefully I will not get banned from the Heavens of VGChartz for this:

A couple of years back, I was plagued with heavy bowel obstruction. For months, I could simply not get the stool to pass... Then one day, while sitting on the toilet, pushing for hours, I thought to myself: "This has been going on for such a long time, and I cannot seem to get rid of it. I have tried numerous doctors, but nothing has worked... It is now time for me to turn to GOD for advice". So closed my eyes, and folded my hands in prayer: "Dear GOD. I have never done you any wrong, and still you have given me such hardships. If you will let me pass this stool in peace, I will forever live as your servant".  Suddenly, dark clouds gathered outside my bathroom window, followed by a bright clear sky. Then I heard a deep voice speak: "My child, fear not. I have heard your prayers and I will appear before you". Suddenly, I felt some kind of sensation in my intestines, and from my anus, rivers of stool flowed. I had never witnessed anything like this before in my life, and I immediately embraced this an act of GOD.

From that day, I have unconditionally been a follower of GOD.

Its "Thou shalt not MURDER" not "Thou shalt not kill"

Murder means that you kill for evil reasons. This is what that commandment really says, "Thou shalt not murder"

Kill is a general word that literally ONLY describes taking away life. Murder is a type of killing. Another word to make things clear is execution, this word means killing for justified reasons like breaking the law, captial punishment.

If I had a penny everytime used that bad interpertation... I'd be rich! There are bad interpertations of that verse and people qoute it. The Israelites had armys for self defence (killing to defend themeselves) and Jesus talked to a soldier and never told him to NOT be a soldier.  As you can see, its okay to kill in self-defence but not for evil reasons.

So, all questions regarding that bad verse are invalid. I enjoy being a hero in the games and that's fine. I've played fallout 1 and did every good choice you can make... and didn't even take things from people's homes even if it wasn't considered stealing in the game.

 1. You use a bad translation, "Thou shalt not kill"

2. You said you think you go to heaven by means of works. You don't go to heaven for "being good"

You clearly don't know the basics of my beliefs....

About your "story".... cool story... here's mine....

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"I was raised in a "Christian" home. I say "Christian" because looking at my parents now, I don't think they we're Christian. My dad has the mouth of a sailor and my mom hasn't changed. Christians change for the better after they convert and my mom is still the same.

Anyways, I'd go to Church every Sunday and was even the usher boy. I suppose you can say I believed in God... but didn't understand much about what the Bible said. Growing older, I realized there were other religions and there was the big bang theory and evolution. This made me wonder if my beliefs were true.

I doubted. I basically became an agnostic. I was 11 and that was the year I went to middle school and started to be interested in girls. I knew about sex by then and knew guys can have sex with girls. I watched porn with my big brother. That's how I knew. While I was really tempted, I also had that thought in the back of my head about God. The thought of him existing. This was a point in my life. The point where I made the decision not to have sex until I found out for sure if God exists. If he exists I though, then this is wrong and consciously I personally thought it was wrong because I was thinking of basically being a player. I also thought it was good and noble to wait until marriage. I remembered a verse (Genesis 2:24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.) The idea of becoming one flesh made sex seem special like it meant something more. I figured... yeah they don't exactly become one flesh but I imagine that has a deeper meaning. I remembered Pastors saying it should be saved for marriage. All these things, led me to that decision. I also decided to not speak, befriend, get a girlfriend or socialize with girls. I figured that's the only way I'll "survive."

I'm a teenager.

I wanted to know the fundamental questions to life. I figured if I know the beginning and the foundations of everything... I'd understand where to go and how to live my life. That was just my thinking as a teenager. So, off I went to look through different religions and then I realized I had a lot of resources for Christianity. If I was gonna look through all the religions. I'll start with the easiest.

And you know I really liked what I found out about my faith. I looked at the Ten Commandments and said... This is good... Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal... Why are people against this? I wanted to believe it was true but I wanted to KNOW it was true too. I kept going to church and listening to the Pastor carefully....

I also put up creationism vs evolution/big bang theory against each other and came up with nothing. Evolution and the big bang theory seems unlikely because of the chances of it happening. It gave an explanation but an unbelievably possible explanation. Creationism, gave me one sound argument to believe that God was capable of creating the earth. That argument was that if God created a man... (not a baby or fetus) then isn't it possible for God to have created an aged earth? While that was said, at the same time I really wanted to see God or some kind of a miracle. I mean I thought... cool, that might explain the billions of years (if the billions of years is true) but still... how do I know for sure. I mean I've never seen God or an angel. I really wanted to know for sure.

All this happening while I looked at my own roots. I'm Latino. When I read the history of how the Spanish did a lot of things to my ancestors. The tension for knowing whether God existed or not... built up even more. I would often say outloud and in my head. Why would God allow that? "God why would you ALLOW THAT?" I grew angry.

I'm 16 years old.

I became a racist. I hated white people just because they had skin color in common with them. Because I knew that part of the wealth of white people was due to the things that happened in the past. The gold from the Aztecs and Incans.... The slavery of the African. I was looking for people that thought like me. People wanted to embrace their roots and maybe avenge our ancestors. I wanted to kill white people. I was boiling but still in control.

I decided I was going to make a decision that would led my life into one or the other direction. Either God exists and God will bring justice to all crimes... or he doesn't and I should uphold Justice myself by making the children of white people suffer, die and pay off their debt. I wondered if they should all die. But again, if God exists then according to him it would be wrong for me to take Justice into my own hands. So, I decided to try God.

From what I understood in studying the Bible and what Pastors taught. I knew that in order to get a connection with God I had to first trust him. I had to first have faith in him. So, I looked through the Bible and looked for reasons to put my faith in God. I looked through some of the stories and the two things that stuck out were Jesus and the Ten Commandments. I liked Jesus, I'd have faith in God because of Jesus. I also like how sensible the Ten Commandments are... God I thought the Ten Commandments made God worthy of me putting my faith in him. That's when I could put my test into the works.

My test was a prayer for a miracle. I decided if God really does exist then he would and could perform a miracle for me. After all he did make fire rain... Moses split a river apart... Jesus walked on water. I asked God for a vision. And here is my prayer from memory... (copied and pasted from writing it in the past)

God I don’t care about heaven or hell, although it makes sense that good guys go to heaven and bad guys go to hell. Heck, even if this was my only life-time and this was all I had. I’d serve a God like you all my life…not sure what to say…I guess the point is… I don’t want to have to bring justice but… if you don’t exist then that’s what I’ll have to do… If you do exist then I know you will bring justice for everyone someday… on judgment day… I just want to know the truth… I want to know what’s right?... I want to believe in you but… I really want something… solid... I want proof. (tears fall and my head lowers further) … And I’m not even sure if it’s okay to ask you that but…didn’t you make fire rain for one of your prophets?… and what about Gideon!? (I inhale and exhale) Didn’t he test you? In faith... you responded to him right?… That’s what I want to do God… So I’m going to give you faith, it’s what you want right?... I’m going to trust you to give me a vision as a sign… and if it happens, I’ll serve you the rest of my life… but if doesn’t happen… I will (sigh) never believe in you… and always deny you… For the rest of my life… please respond… Amen

I waited. A few days past. Then I got angry and looked up and said, "Don't you care about what I'm going to do to them?! Aren't you suppose to be a God of Love?!" I calmed down and breathed. I said to myself, "Its okay Israel, if God's real then he can decide when the miracle will happen. Remember Abraham (Bible story) waited his whole life for his miracle to happen. I can wait a few more days. Maybe his waiting for a special number. I know he likes the number 3,5 and 7... maybe his waiting for that many days to pass?"

Then it happened.

I woke up in the middle of the night and I saw what might've been the star of David on my room's ceiling. It was a triangle like shape with a circle around it. It was light green. That's when I knew. The next morning I was jumping and skipping all over the place, saying,"I had a vision, God exists, I had a vision, God exists" LOL

And that wasn't the last time I had prayers answered for me nor was it... the only time I had supernatural experiences. My brother has seen more things than me from what he tells me. He's seen demons. So, this is how I know. I know because I've seen God in action and because I know I'm not the only one.

I still had my struggles after that though... I was still struggling with sex. But, I've come a long way. And here I am now telling you about it. "