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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:05 am
I have personally never been tormented or anything for being a question but I know there are probably a lot of people who have. Why is it that us as Christian's have always been discrimenated while other religions aren't even a topic. I've seen many Christian haters threads in gaia but I have not paid any attention to it. I think this is because us as Christian's have actual stood up to our belief and tried to do something to help other people but they're not willing to accept our help. Many of us fail to and many succeed. But this is just my opinion. Share your stories about the suffering you went through for believing and loving God.
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:49 am
Yes, I have had times were my Faith has brought me people who were not very nice. You have to remember that some people honestly don't want to be saved they love there sin. They are so bound by it and the enemy that when you shine the light of the gosple on them they cringe and run away or insult you and God.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
"'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; You will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
Matthew 13:14-15
Jesus also told us that this would happen.
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. John 15:18-21
"All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is comeing when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you." John 16:1-4
Its interesting that when some people get saved and they start walking there lives with Christ that they believe everything from now on it going to be prefect. That is not at all what Jesus promised. He told us life would be hard, but we would have rest in Him. That we would overcome the tough times not in out strength but in His. So take heart, we know the world and the Enemy wants nothing more then to Kill, Steal, and Destory our relastionship with God. He wants us not to share the gosple of God, cause when we do so we are knocking down his kingdom. Well Sister, Brothers we were made to Win for the Kingdom of God. No matter what they do to us, no matter what sufferings we indure we do it all for the Glory of God, that others might be saved and set free from the tyes of sin and have eternal life.
Personally most of the struggles or hardships I have indured have just been insults to my person, as well as the cursing of God. People's hearts are hardened but we were ment to sow the seed, the Holy Spirit has to soften their hearts so the Word of God may enter and awaken them filling them with life.
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:51 pm
You say some cool stuff biggrin
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:57 pm
Mystery Lady09 You say some cool stuff biggrin I do not speak on my own but the Holy Spirit speaks through me. heart
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:26 am
I am white, left handed, red headed, 15 y/o, christian, gay and Australian. They pick on me sometimes, but i try to respect my enemys at the same time.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:22 am
neo-hippy I am white, left handed, red headed, 15 y/o, christian, gay and Australian. They pick on me sometimes, but i try to respect my enemys at the same time. That would be realy hard to handle. Some people are the most rudest and snobbiest. I see no reason why they should pick on you for.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:23 am
people will pick on you no matter what you are. you just have to ignore it and go with it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:23 pm
people pick on you becus they don't believe. It's not your fault, it's their fault for picking on you because of your beliefs
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:05 pm
neo-hippy I am white, left handed, red headed, 15 y/o, christian, gay and Australian. They pick on me sometimes, but i try to respect my enemys at the same time. Gay? Do you mean gay as in happy with life?
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:40 am
My friends make fun of me because I'm Christian... and I have to say they treat me different... in a bad way! I have posted some beliefs about my religion and people PMed me calling me cusswords and defenitly miss treated me I reported them to Gaia and for some reason Gaia banned me! crying
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:22 am
ChristianPrincess My friends make fun of me because I'm Christian... and I have to say they treat me different... in a bad way! I have posted some beliefs about my religion and people PMed me calling me cusswords and defenitly miss treated me I reported them to Gaia and for some reason Gaia banned me! crying Awww~~ Poor thing~ I've posted about being Christian heaps but luckily I haven't been flamed for it. And luckily for us, we have Christian guilds to talk in without being flamed.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:47 am
SongofPraise neo-hippy I am white, left handed, red headed, 15 y/o, christian, gay and Australian. They pick on me sometimes, but i try to respect my enemys at the same time. Gay? Do you mean gay as in happy with life? Sadly, he means gay as in homosexual. I've been discriminated a lot for being a Christian, because I stand to the rules of God, and no subjective creature has the authority to deny what the Lord Almighty, three times Holy, has said in His Word. But thanks to God, I'm starting to make really good Christian friends, so I can dwell in this world and receive comfort both through the Holy Spirit and through them.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:51 am
Hehe, yesterday I had the oportunity of writing a man who was talking against the Bible, so the Holy Spirit refuted through me his arguments, and today I received his answer on the matter. He just did not want to believe in the Bible. As a fool, he did not care if there were proofs that the Bible is the Word of God: He just wanted to live his life how he pleased. I'm going to take his answer to my Bible teacher and pastor, so I can write him back a final answer on this matter. I feel so happy for being rejected because of the name of Christ!
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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:48 pm
neo-hippy I am white, left handed, red headed, 15 y/o, christian, gay and Australian. They pick on me sometimes, but i try to respect my enemys at the same time. Actually I dont really get harassed all that much at all really. I'm now in year 11 and I'm too high up in the system to anybody dare get on my bad side. I am also a rather imposing person when i need to be, so any stuff i do get it is snide stuff said while my back is turned. People who can not say their mind to my face are not worth my time. For a short time my nickname was "Preachy" lol.
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:15 pm
no one hated me for becoming a christian because all my friends are Christians. I usually make new friends at church
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