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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 38845997 United States05/20/2017 02:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm currently living in a VA Hospice because I'm dying. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73658672 I notice that I spend a lot of time reflecting on my life, and I often think about things I did that made me feel sorry I did them. I find myself apologizing to God and asking for forgiveness because I feel bad about a lot of things i did and said in my life. I would like to know that I'm forgiven when I feel remorse and apologize - repent is what you call it. This is where believing in Christ in your heart comes in. I think a lot of people who call themselves christian really don't believe in their heart, they just say they believe JUST IN CASE. I guess its better to believe and then find out you were wrong,than to not believe and find out you were wrong. Fortunately, I was never one of those who believed just in case, or just pretended to believe doctrines of men, meant to make you feel good about the after-life. I wanted to know in my heart, so I could believe in my heart, so I kept searching until I found the truth, and was able to believe in my heart. That has given me some peace about dying. The foundational belief of those who believe just in case, or believe because they believe what they were told - like santa claus - is John 3:16, but that scripture makes no sense, so I had to keep looking, and the born again doctrine made no sense either. The John 3:16 scripture makes no sense because it says God loved the world, so he let us kill his son. Huh! The born again doctrine is so silly that born again people can't even explain it. The foundation of my faith is in Genesis 6:5-6. It says God saw how wicked man was, and he was so sorry he made man that he repented for it, and was grieved in his heart about it. His initial response was to just kill everybody and annihilate them. But Noah found favor. in time, the world was so wicked that God was either going to kill everybody again, or love people enough to reconcile us to him by atoning for the work of his hands. So he made his words flesh, whereby he made all things, and sacrificed him to atone for the work of his hands. In effect, he punished himself for making us, because we never asked to be made. All he asks of us is to believe that he was sorry he made us, but he admitted he made a mistake, and he made it right by paying the price for making us, atoning for our wickedness for us. So now i can understand that he can forgive me, because he is just as sorry about the things i did as I am. His son, my redeemer, paid the price for my wickedness. So God can forgive me. I understand it in my heart now, so I can believe in my heart now. When it comes time for you to die, you will find yourself remembering evil things you did and said that you can't even remember now. You will apologize to God for it, and ask to be forgiven. It helps to know that God is just as sorry about your evil as you are, and he wants to forgive you as much as you want to be forgiven. Yahushua paid the price for God making us, and for the evil we do. He atoned, and reconciled us to God. Don't second guess the things you did, repent of the things you knowingly did that were not good. I could tell you things but I will not, I will say that it's not really about sin unless you make it about sin. |
| fhlc nli User ID: 74921780  China05/20/2017 02:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm currently living in a VA Hospice because I'm dying. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73658672 I notice that I spend a lot of time reflecting on my life, and I often think about things I did that made me feel sorry I did them. I find myself apologizing to God and asking for forgiveness because I feel bad about a lot of things i did and said in my life. I would like to know that I'm forgiven when I feel remorse and apologize - repent is what you call it. This is where believing in Christ in your heart comes in. I think a lot of people who call themselves christian really don't believe in their heart, they just say they believe JUST IN CASE. I guess its better to believe and then find out you were wrong,than to not believe and find out you were wrong. Fortunately, I was never one of those who believed just in case, or just pretended to believe doctrines of men, meant to make you feel good about the after-life. I wanted to know in my heart, so I could believe in my heart, so I kept searching until I found the truth, and was able to believe in my heart. That has given me some peace about dying. The foundational belief of those who believe just in case, or believe because they believe what they were told - like santa claus - is John 3:16, but that scripture makes no sense, so I had to keep looking, and the born again doctrine made no sense either. The John 3:16 scripture makes no sense because it says God loved the world, so he let us kill his son. Huh! The born again doctrine is so silly that born again people can't even explain it. The foundation of my faith is in Genesis 6:5-6. It says God saw how wicked man was, and he was so sorry he made man that he repented for it, and was grieved in his heart about it. His initial response was to just kill everybody and annihilate them. But Noah found favor. in time, the world was so wicked that God was either going to kill everybody again, or love people enough to reconcile us to him by atoning for the work of his hands. So he made his words flesh, whereby he made all things, and sacrificed him to atone for the work of his hands. In effect, he punished himself for making us, because we never asked to be made. All he asks of us is to believe that he was sorry he made us, but he admitted he made a mistake, and he made it right by paying the price for making us, atoning for our wickedness for us. So now i can understand that he can forgive me, because he is just as sorry about the things i did as I am. His son, my redeemer, paid the price for my wickedness. So God can forgive me. I understand it in my heart now, so I can believe in my heart now. When it comes time for you to die, you will find yourself remembering evil things you did and said that you can't even remember now. You will apologize to God for it, and ask to be forgiven. It helps to know that God is just as sorry about your evil as you are, and he wants to forgive you as much as you want to be forgiven. Yahushua paid the price for God making us, and for the evil we do. He atoned, and reconciled us to God. Lord bless you, please join the prayer thread regularly |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1347659 United States05/20/2017 02:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The redemption of man, although compassed with dire tribulation, is comparatively easy: for it is written (Isa. xlix. 6), "It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the earth." Hence the magnitude of the purpose looms out into grand proportions, and a highway of reconciliation therefore must be prepared, wherein all, even to the very ends of the earth, may have an opportunity of entering. In this highway stands a great ensign bearing the following inscription: JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, THE WORD OF GOD. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74925577  Australia05/20/2017 02:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Im not even dying and have been going throught that process as well. Mainly because I KNOW I will die at some point. In 50 years I KNOW I will not be here. I could die tomorrow for all I know. I could die before I finish writing this. The point is...we have all done things we regret. And even if you dont regret the things you did now, a time WILL COME when you WILL...count on it. The bill ALWAYS COMES DUE...ALWAYS. And what OP said makes a lot of sense. Its NOT OUR FAULT WE ARE HERE AND ITS NOT OUR FAULT WE ARE EVIL. We were BORN that way. The only hope is forgiveness. The ONLY HOPE. There is nothing else and no other way. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 17354740 United States05/20/2017 03:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The following is not what your pastor will likely preach. But this is what Jesus himself says. Now do you put more weight into what your pastor says? Or do you put more weight into what Jesus says? Jesus said those who love much are forgiven much, and those who little are forgiven little. Luke 7:47 Not many people like to hear that, because it actually requires them to do something to be forgiven. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74925577 Australia05/20/2017 03:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know what Jesus himself says about forgiveness? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17354740 The following is not what your pastor will likely preach. But this is what Jesus himself says. Now do you put more weight into what your pastor says? Or do you put more weight into what Jesus says? Jesus said those who love much are forgiven much, and those who little are forgiven little. Luke 7:47 Not many people like to hear that, because it actually requires them to do something to be forgiven. The other thing they dont like to mention as it puts a serious dent in their offering plates is.. If you do NOT forgive others what they have done against YOU...NO amount of repenting will gain ANY forgiveness from God towards YOU. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74735628 United States05/20/2017 03:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you have faith in Christ, your sins are removed from the eyes of God as far as the east is from the west. I think there is a great blessing in knowing when your time is due, in that you are able to take inventory of your life, reconcile amends with people, communicate final concerns, etc. It's a blessing, and I pray that I am granted such. I don't say that to minimize the pain of your experience, just that I hope that I have the chance to have such foreknowledge. Peace to you, in our Lord Jesus. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74925577 Australia05/20/2017 05:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you have faith in Christ, your sins are removed from the eyes of God as far as the east is from the west. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74735628 I think there is a great blessing in knowing when your time is due, in that you are able to take inventory of your life, reconcile amends with people, communicate final concerns, etc. It's a blessing, and I pray that I am granted such. I don't say that to minimize the pain of your experience, just that I hope that I have the chance to have such foreknowledge. Peace to you, in our Lord Jesus. You already HAVE foreknowledge. You DEFINATLEY ARE GOING TO DIE. It could be tomorrow for all you know. So live each day as if its your last. Say what needs saying when you need to say it. You do NOT KNOW when or if you will get another chance. Never EVER EVER let the sun set on a grudge or a fight. Ya know that person that was killed yesterday in times square? They had ABSOLUTLEY NO IDEA that the walk they were taking dow the street was their FINAL WALK. Imagine...if they fought with their spouse that morning and left the house in anger.... |
| Stu User ID: 64546430 United States05/20/2017 05:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Im not even dying and have been going throught that process as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74925577 Mainly because I KNOW I will die at some point. In 50 years I KNOW I will not be here. I could die tomorrow for all I know. I could die before I finish writing this. The point is...we have all done things we regret. And even if you dont regret the things you did now, a time WILL COME when you WILL...count on it. The bill ALWAYS COMES DUE...ALWAYS. And what OP said makes a lot of sense. Its NOT OUR FAULT WE ARE HERE AND ITS NOT OUR FAULT WE ARE EVIL. We were BORN that way. The only hope is forgiveness. The ONLY HOPE. There is nothing else and no other way. never live in the past ever |
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| FlashBuzzkill User ID: 68754170 United States05/20/2017 05:41 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While the things you speak of OP are of course critically important I would like to remind folks of one other thing that has happened to both my wife and I - having loved ones passed who never cleaned out their house and left a ton of junk to get rid of. So much stuff they didn't use in decades piled up. Do your loved ones a favor and don't leave a ton of junk for them to deal with. Your passing should be enough to worry about. Gen. John B Gordon and Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest were the finest citizen-soldiers birthed in America. |
| Timber_Wolfe User ID: 74908745 United States05/20/2017 06:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey, this is just a suggestion, if you want peace before you die, do 5 grams of mushrooms and keep your eyes closed during the entire the trip. You will then know the truth and have peace. I would have suggested meditation instead, but since time is important mushrooms would give you the most peace the quickest. You need not ask for forgiveness or have remorse, the Universe does not judge, it only observes itself through you. What's done is done, all there is is now. You, me, and everyone and everything are a connected part of this. Not that it matters most likely, but I know, and I want you to know, that after death there is more, and you're still you, only better, there is peace. See you next time around. Namaste. INFJ - EXPLORER OF CONSCIOUSNESS - MEDITATOR - 11:11 - SYNCHRONICITY - NAMASTE Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74927050 United States05/20/2017 06:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While the things you speak of OP are of course critically important I would like to remind folks of one other thing that has happened to both my wife and I - having loved ones passed who never cleaned out their house and left a ton of junk to get rid of. So much stuff they didn't use in decades piled up. Do your loved ones a favor and don't leave a ton of junk for them to deal with. Your passing should be enough to worry about. Quoting: FlashBuzzkill so bleeedin true but LOL !!! one beloved individual didn't leave much of anything.not that it mattered to us BUT the apartment was slightly cluttered/he wasn't a hoarder-hard to express and even my mother ranted be easier to light a match..... i'm on the process myself of giving things away, sending certain mementos to the rightful person etc and it is a massive pain in the @zzz. thankfully not worried about passing as i firmly believe IN eternal life,so i am curious if it's simply a matter of from HERE to THERE--been at the bedsides of family and friends and they verbalised on seeing deceased mother and /or Christ,Virgin Mary waiting for them or simply stated they were ready and went. sure we miss them...but know we will all meet up again. |
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| Achduke7 User ID: 7339868 United States05/20/2017 07:56 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm currently living in a VA Hospice because I'm dying. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73658672 I notice that I spend a lot of time reflecting on my life, and I often think about things I did that made me feel sorry I did them. I find myself apologizing to God and asking for forgiveness because I feel bad about a lot of things i did and said in my life. I would like to know that I'm forgiven when I feel remorse and apologize - repent is what you call it. This is where believing in Christ in your heart comes in. I think a lot of people who call themselves christian really don't believe in their heart, they just say they believe JUST IN CASE. I guess its better to believe and then find out you were wrong,than to not believe and find out you were wrong. Fortunately, I was never one of those who believed just in case, or just pretended to believe doctrines of men, meant to make you feel good about the after-life. I wanted to know in my heart, so I could believe in my heart, so I kept searching until I found the truth, and was able to believe in my heart. That has given me some peace about dying. The foundational belief of those who believe just in case, or believe because they believe what they were told - like santa claus - is John 3:16, but that scripture makes no sense, so I had to keep looking, and the born again doctrine made no sense either. The John 3:16 scripture makes no sense because it says God loved the world, so he let us kill his son. Huh! The born again doctrine is so silly that born again people can't even explain it. The foundation of my faith is in Genesis 6:5-6. It says God saw how wicked man was, and he was so sorry he made man that he repented for it, and was grieved in his heart about it. His initial response was to just kill everybody and annihilate them. But Noah found favor. in time, the world was so wicked that God was either going to kill everybody again, or love people enough to reconcile us to him by atoning for the work of his hands. So he made his words flesh, whereby he made all things, and sacrificed him to atone for the work of his hands. In effect, he punished himself for making us, because we never asked to be made. All he asks of us is to believe that he was sorry he made us, but he admitted he made a mistake, and he made it right by paying the price for making us, atoning for our wickedness for us. So now i can understand that he can forgive me, because he is just as sorry about the things i did as I am. His son, my redeemer, paid the price for my wickedness. So God can forgive me. I understand it in my heart now, so I can believe in my heart now. When it comes time for you to die, you will find yourself remembering evil things you did and said that you can't even remember now. You will apologize to God for it, and ask to be forgiven. It helps to know that God is just as sorry about your evil as you are, and he wants to forgive you as much as you want to be forgiven. Yahushua paid the price for God making us, and for the evil we do. He atoned, and reconciled us to God. You have to go back further, Why did God make man in the first place and then go to the end in Revelation and see that plan fulfilled. Most everything in the middle is sin and redemption. God wants a people to tabernacle with and gives us a way to accomplish that. Achduke |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74850488 United Kingdom05/20/2017 09:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rather than be sorry what you've done, focus on all the good you have done and be grateful for having life in the first place. We all have the capacity to be good. Focus on the good you have brought people. You must have made someone laugh at some point. You must have pointed someone in the right direction. You must have been a friend to someone. So we make mistakes. A quick 'Sorry' is all you need. Life has been given to us to enjoy and celebrate. Living in the doldrums of remorse is not the path. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74850488 United Kingdom05/20/2017 09:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Have you thought about your funeral? Is it going to be a sombre affair, or is it going to be a celebration of your life? Mine will be one of dancing and humour. I've already lined up the DJs and a comedy act who also sings. It's going to be full of dirty jokes and what I call 'crap' music - loads of Abba and 80s/90s disco music. And yes, this will all take place in a Church. I too have made mistakes. But I have also made a difference. I want the final moments when I am remembered to be one of someone who inspired, someone who changed people's lives for the better, someone who advanced the Creation and helped humanity evolve in God's direction which is what God wants. A self-perpetuating, ever bettering-itself Creation is testament to his awesomeness. When we plant wheat it is pretty useless, as were Adam and Eve. But we grind it, we knead it, we bake it and it turns into bread, which when still warm with lots of butter taken from a cow's milk and also 'evolved' is super-scrummy. That is what God is about. Jesus is the bread. He is God's Creation in progress. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74850488 United Kingdom05/20/2017 09:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Have you thought about your funeral? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74850488 Is it going to be a sombre affair, or is it going to be a celebration of your life? Mine will be one of dancing and humour. I've already lined up the DJs and a comedy act who also sings. It's going to be full of dirty jokes and what I call 'crap' music - loads of Abba and 80s/90s disco music. And yes, this will all take place in a Church. I too have made mistakes. But I have also made a difference. I want the final moments when I am remembered to be one of someone who inspired, someone who changed people's lives for the better, someone who advanced the Creation and helped humanity evolve in God's direction which is what God wants. A self-perpetuating, ever bettering-itself Creation is testament to his awesomeness. When we plant wheat it is pretty useless, as were Adam and Eve. But we grind it, we knead it, we bake it and it turns into bread, which when still warm with lots of butter taken from a cow's milk and also 'evolved' is super-scrummy. That is what God is about. Jesus is the bread. He is God's Creation in progress. And you are the butter... 'I can't believe it's not butter' was a margarine substitute at the time. And yes, it is a vicar, a priest of the Church... Even butter can be fun! |
| solarbliss User ID: 73513618 United States05/20/2017 09:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm currently living in a VA Hospice because I'm dying. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73658672 I notice that I spend a lot of time reflecting on my life, and I often think about things I did that made me feel sorry I did them. I find myself apologizing to God and asking for forgiveness because I feel bad about a lot of things i did and said in my life. I would like to know that I'm forgiven when I feel remorse and apologize - repent is what you call it. This is where believing in Christ in your heart comes in. I think a lot of people who call themselves christian really don't believe in their heart, they just say they believe JUST IN CASE. I guess its better to believe and then find out you were wrong,than to not believe and find out you were wrong. Fortunately, I was never one of those who believed just in case, or just pretended to believe doctrines of men, meant to make you feel good about the after-life. I wanted to know in my heart, so I could believe in my heart, so I kept searching until I found the truth, and was able to believe in my heart. That has given me some peace about dying. The foundational belief of those who believe just in case, or believe because they believe what they were told - like santa claus - is John 3:16, but that scripture makes no sense, so I had to keep looking, and the born again doctrine made no sense either. The John 3:16 scripture makes no sense because it says God loved the world, so he let us kill his son. Huh! The born again doctrine is so silly that born again people can't even explain it. The foundation of my faith is in Genesis 6:5-6. It says God saw how wicked man was, and he was so sorry he made man that he repented for it, and was grieved in his heart about it. His initial response was to just kill everybody and annihilate them. But Noah found favor. in time, the world was so wicked that God was either going to kill everybody again, or love people enough to reconcile us to him by atoning for the work of his hands. So he made his words flesh, whereby he made all things, and sacrificed him to atone for the work of his hands. In effect, he punished himself for making us, because we never asked to be made. All he asks of us is to believe that he was sorry he made us, but he admitted he made a mistake, and he made it right by paying the price for making us, atoning for our wickedness for us. So now i can understand that he can forgive me, because he is just as sorry about the things i did as I am. His son, my redeemer, paid the price for my wickedness. So God can forgive me. I understand it in my heart now, so I can believe in my heart now. When it comes time for you to die, you will find yourself remembering evil things you did and said that you can't even remember now. You will apologize to God for it, and ask to be forgiven. It helps to know that God is just as sorry about your evil as you are, and he wants to forgive you as much as you want to be forgiven. Yahushua paid the price for God making us, and for the evil we do. He atoned, and reconciled us to God. Beautiful. Repent means to turn to Christ, or turn away from sin. Now as a new creation on HIM continue to walk in the light AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT. It's not just a mere belief system. Spend time in the WORD and learn the prayer of rest. We must not focus on ourselves, but keep Christ the center and also pray for others without ceasing through the prayer of rest. Lord Jesus Christ, have Mercy on me a Sinner. God bless you in your journey!  |
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| Krissys in bama User ID: 74295532 United States05/20/2017 09:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is the most beautiful thing I've read in a long time. Thank you so much for sharing, and being an inspiration for others. Many of us won't get the chance to quietly reflect on our lives before we go, as in sudden death from accidents and such. It's good to get others to contemplate it now, before it's too late. I'm glad you have peace. God bless you on your journey and speed you to heaven! See you on the other side, friend. |
