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Cheers, mate. Much appreciated.

Welcome, 👍🏽

Quick update: My anxiety has been getting much better. I personally think God had a hand in my recovery.

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Good to hear.

Another thing that's been helpful for my anxiety is rereading about Elijah, specifically the part where he freaks out majorly and runs off into the desert.

He's lying there, asking to die. He's scared and tired and upset and just does not want to go on.

And what does God say in response, more or less?

Eat up. Have a rest. You're okay.

I'm finding a lot of comfort in that. If you're tired, you can rest. It's okay.

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Seriously, people need to portray God in the Old Testament with not being smitey but show he's always had those caring traits. Again the God in the OT is actually not that different from his NT in that it shows multiple times he cares.

Amen to that.

I like that story.

Edited by alnair20aug93 on Dec 12th 2020 at 3:45:28 AM

I love how God deals with Jonah's tenper tantrum and telling him off for not caring about the people of Nineveh.

Ironic. Jonah could save the Ninevites from self-destructive hatred, but not himself.

Seriously, that's why I say in order to understand the New Testament you must understand the Old Testament.

It's Christmas day in 'Straya. Happy Christmas, all!

Happy Christmas!!! 🎄✝❤

Edited by alnair20aug93 on Dec 26th 2020 at 4:17:19 AM

So someone may have asked this at some point, because it honestly is kind of a surreal thing:

What kind of Higher Power goes through a chain of events that involves having any part/aspect/person of Them being born into the human secies, becoming something that has a definite beginning and thus becoming deader than they were otherwise (because when really thinking about the sheer difference between being us and being a true Higher Knowledge, "dead even without our sins" would still be a theologically idea), and then going through a mostly natural course of that life that leads to Their death as a human, and then absolutely borking the very concept of death by becoming truly alive in the way that that Higher Presence had in mind since the start?

A Higher Creativity that does things correctly because He is what is right. That is, a God who is good beyond perfection.

God lives. God is alive. God is live.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, sorry if it's a bit late!

Merry Christmas from this non-believer troper!

Hope everyone here has a happy new year

Sorry for the double-posting, but I'm someone here who has that small kernel of faith in me that is starting to grow a bit. Starting to see that God is more involved in the world and our lives. In the past, you could have described me as something of a deist; believes in God but not really believe that He got involved in the world. But I'm beginning to see that He does indeed get in our world and I'm starting to look at things in a new way.

Pray for me, that the kernel really blossoms.

That's a good revelation on your part.

If a safe covid vaccine being produced and distributed within a year of a pandemic isn't a miracle I don't know what os

I cross my fingers as well.

Also why isn't there a forum for LDS tropers