(and the bold, large print isn't an accident)
First, thank you for your comments. They are always welcome. Where you make me think, I hope I also make you think. Unless you are as closed-minded as a Jehovah's Witness. Open to your own thoughts only.
I get the distinct impression this is someone I know. This IS and always will be a public blog where everyone and anyone and their comments are welcome. Agreed with or not. That said, if this is C, who I think it might be, you are living a homosexual lifestyle, which I completely do not disagree with, but also because of which you should do NO preaching or advising on Christian matters. If you think wiccan is any different than homosexuality in christian terms you are saddly mistaken and maybe should re-examine your own life.
If this is Karl, you shouldn't have had an affair with me, cheated on your wife, and then proceeded to preach the good word to me. Won't buy it. And if this is someone who came here from Sharon's blog, please realize that Karl, her husband, did this.
If this is someone completely anonymous, got a question for you: I have never, and still do not, have a problem with Jesus or with Jesus dying for my sins. I don't know what I believe as far as accuracy of the Bible, or truth. But if Jesus did exist, and came and died for my sins: if a perfect, all powerful being came to my world, lived perfectly, and paid my price for life, ------- I have no problem with that. And I accept it. According to my bible, the only requirement for salvation is acceptance of that gift. Fine, I accept it. There is nothing that says I need to belong to a Christian organization. Nothing.
Why would that still small voice (yes, I know all the adventist, christian lingo) try to persuade me to come back to a group of people that are so mean, and ugly? If that is what the voice is saying, it is not the voice of god. Maybe its a voice that I need medication for.
And if it really is a voice, not a left-over effect of brainwashing, why didn't that voice speak when Mr. Randall Claus (just in case anyone is googling) the Seventh-Day Adventist teacher, kicked my child out of church-school for not being "spiritual" enough? (my child, who is now failing in the public school system that we were told " he would do very well in", the public school system he was forced into, by the church, not by me). Why did that same christian/adventist school and teacher not protect my girls from a child molestor? Why didn't that voice speak when Liz let me know what a disappointment I was when I got pregnant out of wedlock? Why didn't that voice speak when church members didn't respect family wishes when my dad was dying? I could go on and on. But I really am too tired to. I'm just tired.
If your response, like it always has been to this issue, is - "don't look to people - look to god", then my answer is "fine - I accept god, and Jesus, and Jesus' gift". But I choose not to belong to any christian organization. They are not loving, and they do not represent Jesus. Actually, the witches are more in line with living lovingly. I'm going to go where I find god, and peace, and love. And its not in christianity, its in wicca. And when I do my spells, and interact with the gods, God is one of them, and I speak to Jesus then too. And he hears me.
So to respond to your comment, I don't reject god or jesus, or his gift. I reject christianity. And I can accept Jesus and be wiccan at the same time. (Maybe I'm starting a whole new religion - wiccans who love Jesus.)
I'm glad that you have found peace, and your path. I am still finding mine. How much you wanna bet in the end, we will be on the same page, reading the same book? And who knows, it might even be the Koran. Wouldn't that shock us all to hell?
And FYI, its hard to take anything you say to heart, when you are not willing to put your name or identity behind it.
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I can see that I have caused you to have an unsettled mind, not knowing who I am. I'm going to put your mind at rest. I am not Karl, or C, or any other person you mention. I am anonymous. I'm not close-minded. What I believe in, has not been drummed into me.
I am saddened by what you and your family have gone through. And I can understand why you feel the way you do.
The people you have met, that bear the name of Christ, have not lived by the living word of Christ (the bible). This does not show that all christians and all of christianity are the same. It just shows that they have not received the baptism of the Spirit of God. Whose job it is to "convict" of sin, and show the way to "righteousness" and teach that there is also "judgement". John 16:8. This judgement is not to be done by us. There is one Judge, that is Jesus, John 5:30. The voice you hear is the spirit of God doing his job to convict you of these 3 things above. Praise God!!! that you have this!!!...still. Sometimes, we don't hear it, because we are too busy, too noisy, too self willed, we believe we know what's best for me and don't need any help. Bottom line, we're in rebellion, and don't have a teachable spirit. Tell me, who can possible learn from the greatest teacher in the world with an attitude like that?!?!
The homosexual is as much in the same boat as a person who steals, commits adultery, worships other Gods(wiccan), kills. The ten commandments shows us that we are all sinners, Romans 3:23. There is none righteous, No, not one, Romans 3:10. With adultery for example, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart", Matt 5:28. I am a sinner. I am no better than you. And we are both, no better than the people you have mentioned.
Tearing down someone else is never going to bring you the peace that God wants for you. You will only be hurting the very person you say you have nothing against, that is Jesus.
I am NOT saying that, that still small voice is trying to persuade you to go back to that group of people. But rather to pull you away from wiccan.
You say you speak to Jesus, when you are interacting with the Gods and casting spells. 1)He would not be there with you casting spells. Read Galations 5:19-21. Jesus would not advise you against doing something, and then be there with you doing it. An explanation: "For Satan himself, can be transformed into an angel(messenger) of light(truth)", 2 Cor 11:14, to deceive you into believing what God has never said.
The test of all supernatural things, to see if it has come from God the creator, is in Isaiah 8:20, "if they speak not according to this word(the bible), it is because there is no light(truth) in them." Notice, it's not that they have some truth, but no truth. That's not preaching, that's warning from God in love, that he does not do anything hand in hand with the spirits of darkness.
But this one will really shock you: 2 Thess 2:10-11. Yes, after all the promting from spirit of God, if we still want to believe a lie, God will allow us to believe the lie.
p.s. I am a Christian, that follows Jesus Christ, and his word, who genuinely really loves and cares about you and your little ones.
Would you do me the favour that when you decide to pray or talk to the Creator God and Jesus, that you would make it a separate time and place from all the other wiccan things, and search with a genuine teachable spirit rather than to test God.
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