Posted by Farmer on April 05, 2011 at 00:57:28
In Reply to: Re: Good questions posted by long time exer on April 04, 2011 at 23:52:31:
I can't say that my faith came out intact. It did not. I just can't separate religion and abuse.
LTE...I would very much like to beg you herewith to give it a (prolonged...heartily) try...
It's false shepherds who abused...not t h e good shepherd...please try to cling to the manifold good examples in history and overcome that evil in TFI with that good of them.
After I left...I needed some new...real "faith-heroes"...who "hadn't blown it" heavily...like we know from TFI...
Afterall it's your..mine...everybody else's personal salvation...debts are cleared..no matter how vast.
I haven't even begun to "understand", grasp...etc. God's love...it's not possible...but I am deeply touched by it...that's why I keep believing...it's not man who always convinced me of being "straight"...
If I see the worldwide wonders and beauties of God's creation...I know that is enough of a proof for me, that He loves us...and the dangers in the world help me to get desperate...which I am not often enough...I think