Everytime I hear that it is satanic to believe in yourself, I think just how infantile that line of thought is. God is within, nowhere else outside or in some book, thought, or belief system. It's widely believed that taking oneself to be their own God is satanic and blasphemy. However, I say it's the total opposite. NOT being your own God, light, believing in yourself is satanic. Yourself is all you have at the end of the day, you take yourself everywhere you go. Whether you accept Jesus, follow Islam, etc. it all starts with YOU. No one else makes that decision but YOU.
People think it's selfish to believe in yourself and should therefore not believe in yourself. This is the epitome of weakness being a virtue. There's so much rationalization around not believing in oneself as a means to justify not having fully grown up yet. I have been homeless before without anything. What got me out of it is believing in myself, not praying to some God outside of me. So I say, drop all fear and stand on your own two feet. Even if the body dies, so be it! I accept it fully, I live NOW, not tomorrow. Without death, there is no life. So what is the problem?
Very refreshing. I'd love seeing Christians be as honest without so many childish attempts to justify themselves.
God is within, nowhere else outside or in some book, thought, or belief system.
You actually agree with the Once Saved Always Saved sect of Christianity, or rather what they teach ends up the same.
Like you, they are a law unto themselves by their own faith alone, and they also call it God, or God's faith:
God is in me, because I believe it, and I live the way I say God would have me to live from within.
You say not from any book, while they simply twist a book to fit what they say. You are more honest than they.
I completely agree with your independent spirit to do for yourself for your own good.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
No one else makes that decision but YOU.
True, and no one else answers for that decision but me.
It's widely believed that taking oneself to be their own God is satanic and blasphemy.
Are you god or God? I don't accept you as God, neither should you me.
Moving from independent mindedness and fierce desire to run one's own life, to pride over others, is a slippery thing.
NOT being your own God, light, believing in yourself is satanic.
And plainly, you aren't a satanist? As in evil vs good?
People think it's selfish to believe in yourself and should therefore not believe in yourself.
We cannot love ourselves, if we do not believe in ourselves: without believing in ourselves, we have no power to do what we will, to do good or evil, to succeed and or fail, to help and or destroy. Or visa versa: to do what we will, and destroy any that get in the way.
This is the epitome of weakness being a virtue.
Agreed. Humility is not a doormat. Weakness is not meekness. And timidity is not safety. (God help us from all the timid drivers on the road, that think they are being safe!) Neither is it humility of Christians, who boast about how much sinners they are as anyone else.
I have been homeless before without anything.
Similar dittoes. I was without friend nor family, though in an apartment for two years. If I ever were to be homeless, I would go to the woods and live there.
What got me out of it is believing in myself, not praying to some God outside of me.
What got me through it was Jesus within me, and so I called it time of solitude, not desertion.
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
So I say, drop all fear and stand on your own two feet.
No fear can take us through this life with a certain amount of success, but no more. Fear of the Lord does better here and there. Much better.
Even if the body dies, so be it!
No if.
I accept it fully, I live NOW, not tomorrow.
Agreed:
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Without death, there is no life.
Without sin there is no death. Eternal life is without sinning.
We first come into the world living souls, and by sinning we become dead to God. In Jesus Christ, we become alive to God within again: born alive again, like fresh out of the womb. But with knowledge.
Jesus doesn't come to take our spirit nor our life away, only our sinning, which we can do against our own flesh.
Try living through Him for your body's sake, if not your soul. See what happens.
So what is the problem?
Death of the body.
If this life is all, then there is no problem at all, except all that we are and believe ends here. Including our own god we believe and say we are.
Yes, very refreshing. Honesty is always the best policy; otherwise, there can be no good to come of it:
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.