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[–]tomatosplat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Jesus tells us they will call for him, but they didn't take his side here on earth. That's the clincher. I'm on board with Jesus. Everybody has a price to pay for earthbound sin. Jesus paid mine, I accepted the gift. We all uet a free ticket, because none of us could make it any other way. But you gotta open the envelope and say yes.

[–]specialsauces[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the one that always gets me is when jesus said to sell everything you own and follow me.. how many people simply ignore that request?

i am almost sixty now, omg.. but when i was a young boy, i grew up in a home that was atheist and racist.. my parents told me that only fools believe in god and they also told me to never bring any niggers into their home because if i did they would toss the nigger out and then they would throw me out.. truth is, i did not have a clue what they were talking about, lol.. and there were only two black people that i had ever seen, one was a young lad at my school and the other was this nice girl named sylvia.. she played the saxophone and so did I and we sat next to each other in the school band.. do you know that i never noticed that she was a different color, not consciously? its true..

for some reason, even tho no person had ever spoken to me about god I prayed to god and i asked him to teach me to be his servant.. i asked him to teach to me the most difficult problems in the world.. i told him that i did not care how difficult or painful it might be and i told him that i wanted absolutely no reward for my doing this...

from that moment forward, i almost dont know how to explain this to you.. but the clock turned backwards to the beginning of my life and my life was turned upside down and inside out.. i have experienced every form of pain that is known to man, except for death.. i have engaged every form of evil that there is in this world.. i have touched every flicker of every flame that was ever lit in this universe, yet i was never burned.

do you believe in demons? you should, because they walk this earth and they look just like you and me.. but they have magic, similar to jesus.. but jesus has something that they do not have.. they are unable to experience love or kindness.

do you know what the difference is between good and evil? i can tell you.. good people enjoy to see others be happy, while evil enjoys to see you suffer.

suffering is a curse and it is also a gift.