river said:My relationship with God has not been broken up. My relationship with that book which people falsely claim is God's one and only word and my relationship with the organized religion called christianity has broken up.
At no time have a doubted God's love for me. Even now after I have left the Church God continues to show his love for me and to surround me with goodness and mercy to no less degree than I had before.
As long as you and I understand this, you do not have to worry about us having this discussion anymore! I'm glad that at least you have not given up your love for Him, and that you are still here on behalf of Him.
river said:If murder, homosexuality and rape are signs of the end times then we have aleays been in the end time since Cain murdered Able and since Sodom and Gamorrah burned in their desire to rape the two angels whom they thought were men.There is no genertion that did not see signs of the end times.
That is why Noah was told to build an ark, so that Noah and his family did not get destroyed when He washed out the filth in the world with rain. As you know, it was, is, and always will be people who cause the world to be a dirty environment, when it could have been, could be, and would be a clean environment. Also, when God rained sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah, why do you think He told Lot to take his family and himself out of there? To get a better understanding of the end times, How about reading this:
2 Timothy 3:1-4
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God..."
Subsitute "End Times" for "Last Days," and you will get the same result(s).
Lastly, there is one more problem:
Revelation 22:12
"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done."
Most of us are living like he is not coming back. That is not to mention that when the majority of us leave the world, we will leave with at least SOMEONE who we hate and SOMEONE who we do not forgive! When he said to Love thy neighbor as thy self.
Whether we like it or not, we need to Love Him as He Loves us, and that is that, no matter what someone says or thinks.
CD