/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

>>786575

>So, from my understanding, it's not 'did I do enough,' it's 'do I feel comfortable with what I have done?'

For your situation, basically yes. All that matters is whether you're on the right track, not how far up the mountain you've climbed, and you can verify how things are going for you with a blessing from your local pastor if you ever feel unsure about your trajectory. And remember to continue praying asking for God to help guide you so that you can at least take confidence in the fact that you're genuinely trying, which is what God ultimately wants from us in the end anyway.

>>786181

No problem. I have adhd+dyslexia myself, so I can often kinda empathize with people that have different ways of looking at the world, as I myself often feel like I have no idea wtf I'm doing most of the time, lol.

>>786575

I've longed to hear your response and just when I had begun to read the story attached to this post >>786177 you answered. Short of a miracle, something that story is full of, but nevertheless what I wanted.

At any rate, let's see if I can help;

>I want to see my family in Heaven

I confess ignorance about what is contained in heaven, I'm sure God knows what is best for us. St Paul of the Cross says that the soul should be happy like the potter's clay; either to be made into a great artwork, or be thrown into the rubbish. Once you are dead and hid in Christ (Colossians 3:3) you won't have fears about what is or isn't in heaven, although your love for your family is of God, and it is very good of course. Perhaps this is still something you will come to understand later, but also there are many gifts you will get before you die, which will secure you from all doubts that the Christian path through life is best. One of the best is a clean conscience imo. Which brings me to your next point:

>I can remember things I did ten-fifteen years ago that still make me feel guilty.

Confess them to a priest or to the person that you wronged if they can still be found, get it off your chest once and you will never think of it again. You will be happier thereafter.

**Also, regarding the idea that all you have in heaven is God, try to bear in mind that that is 1) not the only interpretation and 2) if you interpret it that way you are also saying something about what people really are, which means that you shouldn't be afraid of it because you're implying that all souls revert to God and are completely absorbed by Him, therefore you would still be united with your family, just in a much less individualistic way. I think there's merit in the argument – it definitely could be like that – but nevertheless you can't know.

>>786580

>>786591

I have a few more questions that I've always mulled over;

1. I know people ask 'why does God let bad things happen' and around here they get laughed at, but since I have a disability, I ask that question seriously. If I do good things, it's because of him, but bad things are my inability to be perfect or someone else doing something evil, right? But in this case, I'm born with something, and a sibling born after me turned out fine. I just want to know why I was born autistic.

2. Is choosing the wrong denomination going to make God angry or upset? I always hear arguments but I'm always worried that there's no point in trying if I'm just going to make God angry anyway.

3. If one priest says something is sinful and another says that thing is not sinful, what am I to do? It always confuses me.

>>787312

>I just want to know why I was born autistic.

>John 9, As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him."

you've been given a hard road, but you're not dead so make the most of it. Try to see it as something to overcome; you can discipline yourself to look people in the eye, or not to stutter if you happen to do, to respond with confidence when you have none, and I would suggest keeping a journal for you to reflect upon social interactions and upon your own mental state. Often I find that my self-knowledge and my confidence in social situations is linked, because I've come to understand that the same fears are working on everyone, and it's just the normal people who cope better because they don't get the same sensory overload. But you can slowly introduce yourself to new stimuli and force yourself into new, better habits.

>Is choosing the wrong denomination going to make God angry or upset?

Basic answer is no, I've busted my head against this wall long enough to tell you that there's no point in having such fears. What is important is how you manifest Christ. The church is just a building, the apostles are only worth following because of their connection to Jesus, and church is only good because you need a family. After all Christ said that "those who do the works of My Father in Heaven, they are my brothers and sisters." You are just getting a support network that shares your values, find another parish if they are hurtful or if they are disinterested (both of which are major sins), but no need to bounce from church to church. What you really need is a sociable church; you won't like it at first, but they are the people who can help you grow in terms of socialization with no risk to yourself. (They aren't your boss, professors or in a power-relationship with you, so you can relax and practice skills you find yourself deficient in, in a risk-free environment)

>>787312

Also, one last thing, do not despair when your first attempt at fixing yourself fails. Get serious about the idea of casting out demons and start casting them out from yourself; get angry at the demon and not at your failure to overcome him, knowing that all he has on his side is fear, self-loathing, and pride, and that all three are the lies of the devil. Fight like Patton; every time you are thrown back in retreat, reconnoiter the enemy's defenses, try to figure out whether they are pride, or fear, or self-loathing or how they have been combined in a layered defense. Then assemble your forces and kill. Grease your tank treads with demon guts as you advance. Make your bad habits afraid of which one is going to die next.

>>786194

>I can't stay pure for 3-5 days

>Where have all the faithful women gone?

First, learn to live chastely, then you can worry about whether or not you'd be fit to be a husband and father. It won't do you or any woman good if you put this kind of moral and emotional baggage on your future spouses shoulders.

Women want to marry men, so be a man, start praying the rosary and start learning to live with virtue before seeking a woman.

I speak from experience, that if you were successful in finding a girl to date at this very second, it will be disastrous for both of you if you haven't figured out how to control your lust.

>>786213

OP here thank you : D

>>786288

thank you

Just don't look at women. That's the only way. Whenever I drive by a girl jogging in yoga pants I just winnie the pooh scream to stop myself from looking. Everywhere you go it's just Tits and ass and I feel like I'm gonna explode sometimes

>>786194

>TO HAVE MEANING!

Christ taught self-sacrifice, he never said women came with as a package deal.

>I want to break free but i'm scared of dying alone.

You are afraid/despairing, this is because you aren't sufficiently detached from earthly things. Take no thought for the morrow, sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof.

>All I see are degenerates faithless miscreants.

So did Jesus, yet He let them use Him. Apply the lesson to yourself, and there you will find meaning.

>>786883

I do not do this yet, Lord have mercy.

>>786944

It's always a good day to start :)

Here's a simple prayer I say:

>Bless us Oh Lord, for these Thy gifts, for which we are about to receive, through Christ our Lord

>Amen

And make the sign of the cross on yourself and the food and enjoy.

>>786945

I will make a note that I have to start in my journal, doing so typically quickens the effects of grace in my experience.

>>786883

Say a longer grace for full meals, for snacks and water you might say something quick to the effect of "Lord I thank you for your gift" or "Thank you Lord." Say it with attention even once it's a habit though, prayer without at least the intention of true attention (which should be able to be maintained during a 2 second prayer as these) is useless.

We need to pray for blessings of our food just in case it has kosher or halal cursings upon it.

>>786861

I know man. As much good as Hitler did by uplifting his people from the depression, he still winnie the poohed up hard. At best, he was a very charismatic prot. At worst, he was a secret LARPagan.

But as the other anon pointed out, if the crown didn't arrogant and just followed the lead of the Iberians, India would be fully Christian.

>>787310

That "teacher" sounded like she was demon possessed or worse.

>>785995

Rugged Rosaries

>>784842

Well shoot. I feel like this means it'll be my fault if my mom goes to Hell now.

>>784848

God can love me and still not feel that I can enter into Heaven. God loves all, but that doesn't mean everyone goes to Heaven.

>>784849

I don't have one and don't know where to get one. I'd assume a church?

True religion has nothing to do with panic attacks. Jesus tells us himself to live for the day and not to worry.

"Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

>>785015

>I don't have one and don't know where to get one. I'd assume a church?

There's at least one per church, and at least 2 per cathedral. I suggest you find one of those, and attend a service, don't take the Eucharist, read up a bit on the etiquette of churchgoing so you make a good impression and feel comfortable, knowing that you didn't screw up.

After the service stay, make yourself known to the congregants as far as the social circumstances seem to indicate, and ask the priest about your problems. It's literally his job to fix them, if he wants to schedule a meeting then do that.

Also, do bear in mind that your feeling of being saved is not an accurate guide to the situation, nor is it true that your feeling of not being saved is an accurate guide. In fact, it's likely, the way you are talking, which is to say that you are taking seriously the words of Christ, and view yourself as a sinner unworthy of heaven, probably means that you are well on your way to salvation, since you have recognized that all your good works are ultimately from God and are not of yourself, and you are working out your salvation with fear and trembling.

>>784805

hello brother/sister

jesus is love. perhaps you should discover ways to live faith with your brothers/sisters

i'm fasting today. i'm also trying to lose some weight. may god bless you and keep you safe.

/dk/

>>787321

>im fasting today

Based and breadpilled

>>768967

> know there are many Christian anons here, honestly, stop attending the /pol/, that environment is toxic.

Christianity is NOT a sect. We have to go to /pol/ and correct JIDF shills who promote anti-christian lies and Paganism.

>>785293

That's like saying you should become a commie because economic inequality is growing nowadays, and not realizing the class struggle is putting your fingers in your ears, and going "lalala, i can't hear you".

/pol/tards are a crappy symptom of society going out of balance, not a solution to rectify it.

>>785079

You can go back to reddit.

>>787273

there are plenty of christians on /pol/, but the problem is that they are misguided on the jewish origin of christianity and the difference between Christendom and Rabbinic Jews

>>782876

>whereas if I were raised in another religion I know for certain I would have looked into that religion and discarded most others

And if you looked hard enough, you would have found God there. (or, rather, He would have come to find You).

The word for "the word" is Logos

Jesus IS the logos

Jesus is the perfect man

And his Word goes out through all the cosmos

Also, did you know?

'kosmos' = ‘world’

akosmos = ‘disorder'

I find this psalm to be very comforting. It was true of myself. No human being came to 'convert' me. If they had, they would have failed. I grew up in the church. then i left the church, hard, for many years. God came to find ME. His Word was always there. The universe itself is a testament to its maker.

>Psalm 19 King James Version (KJV)

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>784741

>kosmos

"Cosmos is originally a Greek word, meaning both "order" and "world," because the ancient Greeks thought that the world was perfectly harmonious and impeccably put in order. We now use cosmos without the idea of perfect order. Now it means, "all of creation," and particularly on the scale of the stars, the planets, the black holes, the other universes, …. "

>https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/cosmos

probably a better source, but that gets at the heart of it i think.

>>784757

Sadly true. The sad thing is that Francis actually has stripped himself of the more fanciful adornments and titles of Pope (and seems to like walking even.. rather than be carried around in a chair). But even his humility doesn't resemble the humble beginnings of Jesus, Mary in the manger, John the Baptist in the desert, the Apostles on the run..

Maybe the average Franciscan monk reflects the way of life (which was partly St. Francis' goal, I think), but it gets lost in higher ecclesiastical levels.

>>786287

Hey buddy with all due respect let’s keep it together, alright?

>>786251

How long ago was it?

>>786466

>I've had no luck with church girls, it's almost like they're just there to virtue signal

Are you Orthodox? I can see those women having high standards. More often than not, women go to church for emotional support, to chat with their circle of friends, or to attract a "good" man (tall, fit, handsome, full head of hair, lots of hobbies, etc.)… at least, that's been my past experience in Prot churches. I'm a candidate in the RCC right now, and don't know what Catholic women are like.

>The university makes women unfeminine, prideful and fills their head with liberalism. Feminism is the sin of pride

>Even in high school many of the girls are fallen and depraved

Indeed. Some of the freshman and sophomore women at my college aren't completely corrupted, and there was one I recently had my eye on (nothing special; tall, average looking brunette with a bubbly personality), but I found out she has an 8/10 boyfriend. I notice her friend (short, average looking brunette with glasses) stares at me during class, so with any luck, she's Christian, single, and interested… but enough about that anyway. Women drive me nuts sometimes.

>>786640

Sorry for the blackpills, my friend. With the current state of affairs, that's all I have on offer.

>>786795

I begome Orthodox from RCC.

Idk about high standards, but there are certainly more Gatholic gurls than Orthodox in the USA. I'm visiting Russia though and not sure what to expect there.

My old RC novus ordo church was very liberal, feminist, modernist. I wonder are there church girls at these SSPX or sedevecantist masses?

>>786277

You're not supposed to know what it means, it doesn't matter. The traditionalist larp pushes people away from faith.

not to say traditionalism is bad, but this shit is getting really tired

>>786814

Because it wasn't the first time he did something scandalous.

I'm actually glad that it's not a homosex pedo for a change…not that this is much better though.

>>786873

Diabetic people are literally fat gluttons though. I highly doubt it was type 1

>>786814

>do you seriously think a 75 year old man has the libido

You should meet my grandfather.

>>786884

Catholic priests are disproportionately pedophiles, do i get to call this guy a diddler?

>>785881

Condemn Vatican 2 as a robber council and issue a syllabus of errors against all that have cropped up from it. All new priests and bishops must be ordained by those who have not been ordained in the new rite.

Anathematise novus ordo and the 1962 rites. Anathematize the St Pius X breviary and all subsequent divine office innovation abominations, returning to the 1910 version. Condemn these liturgical innovations as errors and even heresy.

Promote the Anglican use and other exact literal translations of the Roman rite with local customs as secondary masses.

Ban Low Mass as it is abused as the norm. All masses must be sung or not done at all as there is no excuse. Multiple masses must not be done on a day unless there are coinciding feasts eg. ferial mass + duplex feast + simplex feast. All priests must assist each other at mass and not say mass separately. One properly sung solemn mass is infinitely better than 10 mumbled low masses which is offensive to God. All liturgy must be sung at the proper traditional times of day.

The priests must sing the hours of lauds and vespers publicly in church. The other hours should be encouraged to be sung publicly too. Basically benedictine style. Allow vernacular literal translations of divine office and use of local customs as long as they have no protestant innovations and conform to the 1910 divine office eg. Anglican use Evensong and Morningsong.

Enforce minor orders as necessary for any layman who wishes to exercise a liturgical function eg. all servers must be minor orders and tonsured as per sacred tradition. All minor orders and major orders must sing in choir. Women are not allowed to sing the liturgy or responses in Church. Suffer not a woman to speak in Church, she must be silent. Reinforce segregation of sexes, veils and proper modest dress at Church. Women are banned from teaching. Suffer not a woman to teach. Women are not allowed to talk to priests unless she has no father or husband for she must ask them instead. If a woman does not understand soPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>786429

I wonder what part of "universal"/Catholic these posers don't understand? It's glaringly obvious this is not the church for them.

>>785908

what level of Jesuit trickery is this

>>786502

>Condemn heliocentrism as heresy. Affirm geocentrism as dogma.

You can't be serious.

>>785890

>>785891

Don't forget to hire an extra twenty super loyal bodyguards that follow you everywhere.

You'll definitely become the target of a (((hit)) God bless you though

>>786314

>You again?

Yep. I'll be here forever.

>You again? How many times do we have to tell you that we will never condone you trying to turn yourself into a woman

Hence why I called myself a reprobate.

>Stop believeing (((satan)))'s lies and man up already

I've spent two weeks putting in 25lb shelves at grocery stores and taking the glass bottles of juice off the shelf and replacing them. Not as a stocker with a job that nets me social security - as a contractor.

>And stop blaming God for your parents' sins

Why does God blame me for becoming a tranny in the face of abusive parents who beat and abuse me, homelessness, and no hope on Earth or in Heaven?

Why didn't my grandparents baptise me after being given permission by my parents? Why did God tell all these people to keep me from him?

>And pray the rosary daily. I know you haven't

I just tried to teach it to my brother yesterday. I recited the first chaplet in front of him.

Teaching others Christianity - he's now reading the Catechism - counts for nothing I guess.

>>786324

>Yet you say that the hope of gratifying this wish is all you have… do you not think that possessing God Himself, the very source of all good, will be better than this?

I've seen God. I'm being told here I can't go live with Him as a traPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>786333

>You already know what you are doing is wrong, and yet you do it anyway. That is a sin. A bigger sin than wanting to distort the body God gave you

All I can do is ask for mercy.

>your vanity

My sin is pride. I don't care what others think of me - I care about how I look to myself.

>>786370

>I don't think you'll need your physical body (in the way that you seem to think)

So I never get to enjoy my flesh because I was poor on Earth and hated my body, then I go to a disembodied Heaven and never get to enjoy what tons of other people did on Earth.

>I'd even say that if you do love Him (and He DOES love you!), he would not cause you suffering by making your union with him the thing you fear most. It would be contrary to what we know about Him

I want to be with Him, but I also want to look like a woman. Only not looking like a woman for all eternity would make me suffer. If I can't look like a woman with Him, then the glory of being with him would not be mine. I'd have to dissociate my mind from the scene of being with God, and at that point I wouldn't feel His glory - I would have scooted myself off the table, and into Hell.

>>786806

>look like a woman

So you admit you are not a woman.

You have a serious dissociative disorder. You must be suffering intensely. Someone say a rosary for this man.

>>786806

tigga i already told you to either:

1- Seek treatment

or

2- Make a pilgrimage, travel, and of course before you go, throw all of that tranny shit away.

If you continue to not do these things, then yoi haven't done everything you could have. We are all praying for you hoping you can abandon this obsession.

>>781984

In all fairness, there's some debate over whether Calvin could be called a "Calvinist".

The two don't necessarily intersect.

>>781989

I was under the impression that people refrained from calling themselves Calvinists before reading at least the important bits of the Institutes, even if they belong to a reformed church. I also don't understand how Calvin could be considered anything but a Calvinist.

>>782005

There's some level of discrepancy between the various Reformed churches and Calvin himself (for example, Calvin held to double predestination, that is God actively elects some to salvation and actively condemns some to damnation unconditionally; most Reformed churches don't hold to that, professing something known as "compatibilism")

In fact, there isn't a single, binding confession to unite the various Reformed churches. The most common ones are the Three Forms of "Unity" (The Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort), and the Westminster Standards and Catechism, but there are scores of others.

Personally, the whole tight, intellectualism of Reformed theology appealed to me, but I couldn't square it away with certain parts of Scripture and Church history.

>>768522

He's wrong. He's imbalanced in his read of the scriptures. Choice is everywhere. See Rev 22:17 eg

>>782008

>actively condemns some to damnation unconditionally; most Reformed churches don't hold to that, professing something known as "compatibilism"

I don't think you even know what the terms you're using mean.

>>786755

No u

>>786759

No u

The Pyramids were already under Christian rule before, and we didn't disturb that oversized tomb for any reason. Nor the Sphinx

>>786760

No u

>>786766

>>786724

>>786725

You know what's funny about you people? Your refusal to confront the fact that many "whites" collaborated with your great enemy wittingly or not, especially in the Soviet endeavor, and in all similar endeavors since. It's always suspicious, in fact, how so little rhetoric focuses on traitors, and instead pins all blame on an external foe. No "race" is free of grievous sin and atrocity.

Go read God's Secret Armies. Jews suffered plenty under the Soviet yoke with the others, especially under Stalin, but that's inconvenient, isn't it.

>>786735

Not every bloshevik was a Jew, but the extreme majority of leading position were Jews and the Secret Police was Jewish and the person who oversee the starving to death of 8 millions christian Ukrainians by starving was a Jew.

Bolshevism was a Jewish movement, a Jewish invention and it couldn't have existed and prevailed without Jewish involvement…Same thing with feminism.

See the video here at the beginning.

Even Vladimir Goyim at to admit that 80-85% of the Soviet Government was Jewish (and he didn't say it, but high position of powers in the Soviet Union Pretty much was 90-95% Jewish).

And this ideology has killed more or less 85 millions ethnic Catholics. So no, Jews are no victims at all as a whole, as a people.

Considering that I know good and evil and I’ve never eaten that mushroom, I’d say… no

shrooms do not change a very being of a species, its a Luciferian druggie fantasy that cannot be substantiated

>>786551

I think you mean ANY hippy :D

>forbidden fruit