This board made me believe God was a joke......a fictional character..........I became a doubting Thomas even after surviving Catholic school in the 60`s, and having been brainwashed by the cult that the Catholic religion is....... and trust me if you survived it in the 1960`s you were a bad muthafucker.
I can go into it but I won`t, but someone is watching over me and I don`t think it`s "Felix The Cat" so I now have renewed faith that God exists.
I`m just not that lucky to have survived the laundry list of shit that I have been through without some help from "up above" if you will.
I thank God several times a day that I`m alive, where at various points in my life I couldn`t have cared less if I woke up in the morning.
I don`t go to church and do not believe in any organized bullshit religion I just have my own philosophy which is to try to do the right thing everyday.......if I fail,I try again tomorrow.
Having been dead, I can attest to there being someone and more, brother. Your words are well said, brother. I used to tell people God requires neither a house nor money from us. You cannot buy salvation. You cannot earn salvation. It is given freely. I had a friend that got mad at me because I am not as learned as many pastors with degrees.
I simply told him that is pretty much what the Rabbis said about the Nazarene. He was just a carpenter and they were educated men.
When the Nazarene forgave the woman caught in adultery (strange is it not that the men who caught her failed to catch the man she was with?) He said, "Go. And sin no more" not "Go and sin some more".
I can no longer claim to be Christian because I do not walk the Faith and refuse to be just another christian. Either I live His teachings or not. But what I hold true I will state without hesitation.
You are a good man, Wes.
