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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2120

JackeeM Offline Administrator Posts: 180 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	Here is the article for October Group!! Our comments should be about what brought us to the Gnostic Faith. Jay did a fantastic job writing this article proving once again he is multi-talented. I'm looking forward to reading what you all post!!! Remember this activity will go in your portfolio.
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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2121

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I actually thought God was selfish and mean. To me it seemed like we had to give so much, sacrifice so much and he never did anything. I was like my sister, I couldn’t take any of it seriously. I went through the motions from time to time but I never took it serious because you can see the racism, the sexism, and the lack of concern for children period. I mean what is really going on, I often wondered. I just didn’t couldn’t see what the church was doing for people except dividing them more and more.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2122

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For me it was the evangelicals support for a clear wacko who is so ungodly it’s insane. I said my family is on the right road and it’s time for me to join them. It was the final straw because A blind man can see Trump is bad for this country. There is no excuse for continuing to support him. At this point I’m not sure why anyone can, in their right mind, continue to support this man. I can see so much now and it’s time to take responsibility for being on the right life path.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2123

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I think it was realizing they would not do anything significant to help me. I needed help, especially when I was young, and I learned early it was all a bunch of talk. They didn’t really care. When people need help they need actually help not a bunch of lip service about how God helps them who help themselves. About how I wasn’t trying hard enough. About how I had to learn to accept and be satisfied with my life in its miserable state. I was actually told by a rabbi that all of us were not born to be financially secure. Some of use were born into lives of poverty to build character. What kind of mess is that to tell someone? I was always going to struggle and I should thank God for his instruction. I backed away from him telling him no thank you.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2124

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I was looking for something I wasn’t getting in my Baptist church, something that made since. I had so many question and I had enough when I saw a member in tears after leaving church on day. She needed help and the church advised her to go to the state welfare office for assistance. She was about to lose her home and she turned to God. Well in our Baptist church the people representing God told her to go to hell basically and it rocked me to the core. I didn’t know what to say, what to do, I asked why they didn’t help. I mean we are all paying tithes and stuff why did they turn her away? I told the pastors wife I wasn’t paying more tithes if we couldn’t help people when they really need it. She told me that was not for me to decide. The money belonged to God and I had no right to deny him his due. I told her I had a right to ask what was being done with the money I am expected to give to God especially if God wasn’t personally receiving. The pastor came out to confront me and man was he upset with me. I told him not to worry I would leave the church because I was not all right with them telling people to go to welfare for help. I told him my tithes would be used to help that woman and I walked out. I never returned and I was so glad when I joined a friend at one of the meetings when you all came to Jersey. I cried because I found home and she’s a Gnostic now as well. Her home was saved and she’s doing good. Her faith in God was restored, and she is seeing another member and it looks like they’ll be tying the knot here real soon.

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In the Service of the Most High! 6 years 6 months ago #2125

Mike Offline Elite Member Posts: 315 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	Sir Paul set me straight. I was born Catholic but I wasn’t really practicing. I just listened to him speak, his logic, it all felt right. I mean I actually felt something I had never felt before. I slowly embraced the Gnostic faith because it reached inside of me and I really felt a connection to something bigger than myself.
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