His Church Tried To "Pray The Gay Away" 

OmG i say the same thing ALL of the time. Gays are the scapegoats for the sin of the church. For sure!!! How about how some of them treat their kids!? I could go on and on but Id rather work with the Spirit in removing the board out of my own eye before attempting to remove the splinter from my brother/sister’s eye. Matthew 7:5

@AliciaTheTroonSlayer This is not about shaming but being truthful about what the Bible says. If you know that there's a dead end cliff at the end of a road and a person is driving down that road, wouldn't you want to warn that person? We're not creating words here. You can look it up yourselves in the Bible , that is if you truly believe in God.

@mjm7131 Why does quoting the Bible offend you? It's right there. We didn't create that. If you truly believe that the Bible is the word of God then this shouldn't be offensive to you.

Tell that to all the judgemental Christians that are giving trump a pass on his sins. Everyone or no one.

how on earth can you have a username and icon like that and call out OTHER PEOPLE for being bigots without immediately collapsing in on yourself into a black hole of bitter irony

& having children out of wedlock, by multiple different persons.

@WakandaleezaRazz please don't mistake religious fanatics with true Christians who actually have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And I beg to disagree. True Christians can't help but abstain from premarital sex because of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Once you become a true Christian it just becomes a natural thing to practice abstinence in that way. Children will be raised in the way that we raise them, and will naturally follow our example. We can't tell our kids not to drink or smoke if we do it ourselves. Parents have to lead by example.

I believe it's best to leave judgment to God. We can always pray for the salvation of all of our souls and that everyone will find their way to the light and to God.

That's right. There's ppl who weren't able to have children at all. 🧡

@janetashbrook5614 i agree. But don't mistake true Christians from Religious fanatics. Only God can change people. People can't change other people.

@mjm7131 Sharing God's word is not quarreling. Your Bible quote is about Christians who are fighting about which apostle they were following. Lest we forget 2 Timothy 3:16

Matthew 10:28

That book of hell is written by the pedophiles to confuse innocent children

The Message of the Crucifixion 1. For learning purposes, let us consider the crucifixion again. ²I did not dwell on it before because of the fearful connotations you may associate with it. ³The only emphasis laid upon it so far has been that it was not a form of punishment. ⁴Nothing, however, can be explained in negative terms only. ⁵There is a positive interpretation of the crucifixion that is wholly devoid of fear, and therefore wholly benign in what it teaches, if it is properly understood. 2. The crucifixion is nothing more than an extreme example. ²Its value, like the value of any teaching device, lies solely in the kind of learning it facilitates. ³It can be, and has been, misunderstood. ⁴This is only because the fearful are apt to perceive fearfully. ⁵I have already told you that you can always call on me to share my decision, and thus make it stronger. ⁶I have also told you that the crucifixion was the last useless journey the Sonship need take, and that it represents release from fear to anyone who understands it. ⁷While I emphasized only the resurrection before, the purpose of the crucifixion and how it actually led to the resurrection was not clarified then. ⁸Nevertheless, it has a definite contribution to make to your own life, and if you will consider it without fear, it will help you understand your own role as a teacher. 3. You have probably reacted for years as if you were being crucified. ²This is a marked tendency of the separated, who always refuse to consider what they have done to themselves. ³Projection means anger, anger fosters assault, and assault promotes fear. ⁴The real meaning of the crucifixion lies in the _apparent_ intensity of the assault of some of the Sons of God upon another. ⁵This, of course, is impossible, and must be fully understood _as_ impossible. ⁶Otherwise, I cannot serve as a model for learning. 4. Assault can ultimately be made only on the body. ²There is little doubt that one body can assault another, and can even destroy it. ³Yet if destruction itself is impossible, anything that is destructible cannot be real. ⁴Its destruction, therefore, does not justify anger. ⁵To the extent to which you believe that it does, you are accepting false premises and teaching them to others. ⁶The message the crucifixion was intended to teach was that it is not necessary to perceive any form of assault in persecution, because you cannot _be_ persecuted. ⁷If you respond with anger, you must be equating yourself with the destructible, and are therefore regarding yourself insanely. 5. I have made it perfectly clear that I am like you and you are like me, but our fundamental equality can be demonstrated only through joint decision. ²You are free to perceive yourself as persecuted if you choose. ³When you do choose to react that way, however, you might remember that I was persecuted as the world judges, and did not share this evaluation for myself. ⁴And because I did not share it, I did not strengthen it. ⁵I therefore offered a different interpretation of attack, and one which I want to share with you. ⁶If you will believe it, you will help me teach it. 6. As I have said before, “As you teach so shall you learn.” ²If you react as if you are persecuted, you are teaching persecution. ³This is not a lesson a Son of God should want to teach if he is to realize his own salvation. ⁴Rather, teach your own perfect immunity, which is the truth in you, and realize that it cannot _be_ assailed. ⁵Do not try to protect it yourself, or you are believing that it is assailable. ⁶You are not asked to be crucified, which was part of my own teaching contribution. ⁷You are merely asked to follow my example in the face of much less extreme temptations to misperceive, and not to accept them as false justifications for anger. ⁸There can be no justification for the unjustifiable. ⁹Do not believe there is, and do not teach that there is. ¹⁰Remember always that what you believe you will teach. ¹¹Believe with me, and we will become equal as teachers. I am sorry when my brothers do not share my decision to hear only one Voice, because it weakens them as teachers and as learners. Yet I know they cannot really betray themselves or me, and that it is still on them that I must build my church. There is no choice in this, because only you can be the foundation of God's church. A church is where an altar is, and the presence of the altar is what makes the church holy. A church that does not inspire love has a hidden altar that is not serving the purpose for which God intended it. I must found His church on you, because those who accept me as a model are literally my disciples. Disciples are followers, and if the model they follow has chosen to save them pain in all respects, they are unwise not to follow him. I elected, for your sake and mine, to demonstrate that the most outrageous assault, as judged by the ego, does not matter. As the world judges these things, but not as God knows them, I was betrayed, abandoned, beaten, torn, and finally killed. It was clear that this was only because of the projection of others onto me, since I had not harmed anyone and had healed many. We are still equal as learners, although we do not need to have equal experiences. The Holy Spirit is glad when you can learn from mine, and be reawakened by them. That is their only purpose, and that is the only way in which I can be perceived as the way, the truth and the life. When you hear only one Voice you are never called on to sacrifice. On the contrary, by being able to hear the Holy Spirit in others you can learn from their experiences, and can gain from them without experiencing them directly yourself. That is because the Holy Spirit is one, and anyone who listens is inevitably led to demonstrate His way for all. You are not persecuted, nor was I. You are not asked to repeat my experiences because the Holy Spirit, Whom we share, makes this unnecessary. To use my experiences constructively, however, you must still follow my example in how to perceive them. My brothers and yours are constantly engaged in justifying the unjustifiable. My one lesson, which I must teach as I learned it, is that no perception that is out of accord with the judgment of the Holy Spirit can be justified. I undertook to show this was true in an extreme case, merely because it would serve as a good teaching aid to those whose temptation to give in to anger and assault would not be so extreme. I will with God that none of His Sons should suffer. The crucifixion cannot be shared because it is the symbol of projection, but the resurrection is the symbol of sharing because the reawakening of every Son of God is necessary to enable the Sonship to know its wholeness. Only this is knowledge. The message of the crucifixion is perfectly clear: _"Teach only love, for that is what you are."_ If you interpret the crucifixion in any other way, you are using it as a weapon for assault rather than as the call for peace for which it was intended. The Apostles often misunderstood it, and for the same reason that anyone misunderstands it. Their own imperfect love made them vulnerable to projection, and out of their own fear they spoke of the "wrath of God" as His retaliatory weapon. Nor could they speak of the crucifixion entirely without anger, because their sense of guilt had made them angry. These are some of the examples of upside-down thinking in the New Testament, although its gospel is really only the message of love. If the Apostles had not felt guilty, they never could have quoted me as saying, "I come not to bring peace but a sword." This is clearly the opposite of everything I taught. Nor could they have described my reactions to Judas as they did, if they had really understood me. I could not have said, "Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?" unless I believed in betrayal. The whole message of the crucifixion was simply that I did not. The "punishment" I was said to have called forth upon Judas was a similar mistake. Judas was my brother and a Son of God, as much a part of the Sonship as myself. Was it likely that I would condemn him when I was ready to demonstrate that condemnation is impossible? A Course In Miracles (1975) Author: _Jesus Christ_

Lots of speculation as to what burning in hell is. But we are recovering from traumatic treatment and communication at the hands of verbally abusive "christian"​@@gracealexander4940

Yes

@@WakandaleezaRazz how? Please explain

@@steelstreet79they actually sometimes don’t and sometimes do but it’s hard to explain. They can kind of tell by the way they talk or act. Some men are very open with their sexuality and some aren’t. But if you see the way the men look at people of the same gender as them you can tell. But idk🤷🏽‍♀️ .

Yes. We can tell immediately.

@@musiqal333 really you can tell if a "straight man " is hiding it? Cause some men hide it very well

Oh ho ho ho!!!!! 😅🤣

I prayed for decades. The feelings are not going away. But I can choose to remain chaste and thank God that I can afford to support myself as a single income earner.