wow guess what happen to me today, every thing makes sense now! I posted this in another thread not sure if should post it as text here again, cause i don't want to spam. So i will just post the link.

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,120784.0.html

I am feeling so wonderful right now.

Quote from: ShawnTOShawnna on May 27, 2012, 01:12:07 PM
wow guess what happen to me today, every thing makes sense now! I posted this in another thread not sure if should post it as text here again, cause i don't want to spam. So i will just post the link.

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,120784.0.html

I am feeling so wonderful right now.

Annah i believe is a pastor too and she said basically the same thing. I am glad you found some peace. Remember though the evil one will send others into your life to distort what you heard and make you confused and not able to love both god and man.

That is true, i just needed to hear from someone i didn't think would tell me anything, someone i knew well.

Annah, one of your videos on you tube said theres no absolute truth, that cannot be, sure we don't have all the answers but God is the absolute truth, he knows all. Also why would simple truths that Jesus said (ok fine men wrote down what they heard Jesus say) "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" not be an absolute truth, if i live the opposite of this and treat other people like crap, im not going to be getting anyone to love me back and im going to be hated for treating them like crap. Following certain laws of God do in essence become absolute truths.

Quote from: ShawnTOShawnna on May 29, 2012, 02:23:23 PM
Also why would simple truths that Jesus said (ok fine men wrote down what they heard Jesus say) "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" not be an absolute truth, if i live the opposite of this and treat other people like crap, im not going to be getting anyone to love me back and im going to be hated for treating them like crap. Following certain laws of God do in essence become absolute truths.

Well, there are times where that's not actually true, either. If the other person believes you're treating them like crap because it's in their own best interests, for a greater good that they can't see, then that doesn't always apply.

Here's a scenario: You're a triage nurse and all of a sudden you get ten patients brought in at once. They're all seriously injured. One requires constant attention and holding pressure on a wound in order to save their life, but in order to do that you have to neglect treatment of the other nine, who will die if you do. Yet if you treat the other patients, that one will die.

So what do you do? Do you let nine patients die because treating the one would be what you'd want to happen to you in a similar scenario? Or do you choose to save the most lives you can, even knowing that you're going to let someone die?

Sometimes we all face choices that make us think about the 'bigger picture' and what's best overall than in specific case-by-case instances. In such cases, we don't always, and maybe shouldn't do unto others as we would have them do unto us. So it's not really an absolute truth.

Such statements are very simplistic in their nature, and while morally noble, they aren't always practical in a real-world environment.

ahh ok well that makes sense, but let me just make it more simple


God is Love *i regard this as an absolute truth*

Satan is the opposite of God *i regard this as an absolute truth*

Good and Evil exist, the majority of the world would agree that cold blooded murder is Evil,  *I regard this as an absolute truth*

*edit*

I have been speaking with pastors from the UCC and the MCC also and its starting to become more clear. I am starting to understand and let go of some of my fears about my feelings

Varieties of Christian tradition and experience tell us that there is not going to be much to agree up from sect to sect and denomination to denomination, except for one thing: the primacy of the Bible.

A lot of opposition aimed at transgendered Christians and Jews comes from Leviticus.  My two cents, as a Christian, comes from the Gospel according to John (1:17, NASB):

For the Law was given to Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

This tells us that things have changed - our relationship with God and his covenant - with the death and resurrection of Christ.

In Chapter 3 of the letter to the Galatians, which speaks on righteousness through faith, there is a significant passage (3:17-29) that concludes (v. 26-29) what is typically the first division of the book,:

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise.

This is beautiful! It tells us that we are no longer saved by the law but through faith in Christ. Any law prohibiting a man from wearing a woman's clothing is about as relevant as a law requiring circumcision - which is not at all!

God doesn't make mistakes. He didn't make a mistake creating you.

Finally, from the First Samuel (16:7), some encouraging words about what really matters:

But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."


-Caroline