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If their love for you is conditional, you are better off without their approval.
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If their love for you is conditional, you are better off without their approval.
Well you are at a young vulnerable age right now and this is the time in a person's life where they begin to develop their own beliefs about religion, life, politics and you name it....those who you seek out for advice and fellowship tends to be what you choose for your own choices as well....your friends can influence your decisions in many ways such as peer pressure and social identities....I pray you will continue to have a desire to seek truth and find it.I got held baxk
YOU DON'T UNDERSTANDIf their love for you is conditional, you are better off without their approval.
Jesus means more to most Christians than do their families. In fact he said:YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
JWs are not an issue. The issue is trusting in Christ for your salvation.So i am worthless and family separation doesn't matter but when jws do it's a problem
I am 17 still i am growing up with my parents none of them are Christians.Take Jesus at his word and do what he says.
You need to submit to your parents. Honor and obey them, and in so doing you are doing God's will. Possibly they would allow you to experiment visiting various churches. I did this after Christ converted me and it broadens your outlook.I am 17 still i am growing up with my parents none of them are Christians.
I can't let then kick me i would be on ny own and i can't get a job or find a place to live i would be homeless.
ok then you have made your choice already i guessI can't let then kick me i would be on ny own and i can't get a job or find a place to live i would be homeless.
How much can you believe anyway? You can only believe & believe some more, there's no end to believing when you don't actually know something.i am feeling trapped because i am want to be a christian but i know that if i tell my grandparents that i want to be a christian they'll shun me. i know it's not their fault and it's simply the watchtower but i don't want to lose my grandparents. i want to become christian cause i feel like the jws are wrong on most cases but if i do declare that i want to be a non jw christian they will call me an apostate and push me aside or try to convert me and turn me down.
also i feel like i am trapped due to the pressure to stay a jw but wanting to "break free" from the jw falseness. everyday i am still a jw i feel like i wanna die. i go to kingdom halls and i can't trust the elders. i pray to God and that helps. but i think i won't actually be free until i really find Christ.
i also feel trapped and saddened each day because if i stay in jw and never become an christian. then i'll be sent to hell cause i never repented or find another church to go to and follow the the christian bible.
why is everything so tough for me.
i even have thoughts of suicide,
simply cause of my negative thoughts of going to hell
and not having a will to live.
i hate the watchtower i hate the kingdom hall i hate the meetings.
yet i still go simply cause i want to stay with my grandparents.
i wanted to go back to jw to see what i was missing and feel that life was starting to feel empty with out God. i was never an atheist or agnostic i just slowly stopped going to the jw meetings maybe cause of my great grandfather's death in 2014, or just cause i felt too old for it.
now i found out that the watchtower kept secrets from me kept me away from God.
how can i trust the bible or any christian church, or any christian individual.
every day i felt sadness deep in my heart cause i am jw wanting to be christian and keep telling myself to "don't say anything" "you gonna lose your grandparents" "how can you be a christian and leave jws you just started again" i hate these voice i try to have fun and be happy but i can't i never will till become an actual christian.
can i even trust you people on this thread?
do you guys care what happens to me?
what should i do be a christian and leave the jw faith despite the consequences.
stay a jw and be trapped in a religion you don't even 100% believe in anymore.
so it's better i be homeless than have a homevolunteer for mission work maybe
something the fam will approve that will also broaden your contacts and horizons
ok then you have made your choice already i guess
the Son of Man has no place to lay His head
36a man's enemies will be those of his own householdso it's better i be homeless than have a home
noDo your parents and legal guardians know you are posting to this forum? And are they aware of your feelings? I would talk to them first before talking to complete strangers.
Do I smell rotten? Why stonewall me?u don't understand it not easy to live on your own especially when you know nothing at all
sorry for the caps but it's trueNO TEENAGER WOULD ACTUALLY TALK TO THEIR PARENTS
Do your parents and legal guardians know you are posting to this forum? And are they aware of your feelings? I would talk to them first before talking to complete strangers.