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"I think that being a good person will get you some place equally as good."--I dont understand what you're saying..what place is this that no one talks or knows about?
"I don't look at God as a person watching our every move,"--God is not human.
"God is more of a guiding force."--Could you explain that..?"
It is the moral code that is buried deep in the human conscience."--sayy what?
"I can’t look at God as this man sitting on a throne in the sky… he… it... is more than that,"--No!God is not human He cant be..He created us. God is more than we can comprehend.

---Im a Christian, and im not trying to force what I believe down your throat at all, please dont take this the wrong way,im not trying to offend you,im just interested in what you say you believe.

I would love to discuss these topics with you... feel free to IM me... my AOL is Killingfrost18
Frost

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You wrote "just try to be a good person and it'll all fall into place." Being a "good" person will not make things ok. Anyone who believes that is just kidding themself. If being a good person would make everything ok, there wouldn't be empty lives asking questions about the purpose of life. No matter how good a person seems to be, there is always something not good. We're human. We're not perfect. But Jesus is perfect and accepting His sacrifice is the only thing that can cover our imperfections. THEN serving Him with our good deeds counts.

That is your opinion and perfectly acceptable. You have the right to believe whatever you consider to be true. I maintain that same right... and what I believe differs from what you believe... which is fine... I accept my imperfections, I ponder my existance and the purpose of life... and I firmly believe that God (not jesus or Buddha or Mohamed) is the Immanent Will to serve and is all forgiving and all loving...Take what you will from what I say, I'm not trying to tell you your religion or faith is wrong... you asked a question open to all answers and the responce I gave was how I have come to understand it.
Luck to you
Frost

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Do you think that being a good person will get you to heaven? And that God dosen't know what you do?

I think that being a good person will get you some place equally as good. The way I view God is slightly different than how most people view it... I don't look at God as a person watching our every move, although I am sure that whatever God is it is aware of our actions... God is more of a guiding force. I don't have the words to describe it. It is the moral code that is buried deep in the human conscience. It is the basic understanding that hurting another person is wrong… I can’t look at God as this man sitting on a throne in the sky… he… it... is more than that, its embedded into our lives, performing miracles and guiding people where they will have it.
I hope that makes sense… you don’t have to agree with me… it’s just what makes sense to me.
Luck to you
Frost

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I am Catholic..but I very interested in finding out about different religions..is that weird? hah

My question is: How many sects (right word?) does the Protestant church branch out to? (ex: Baptist, Methodist, Lutherans, etc..) How are their beliefs different from the other Protestant sects..(ex: How are Baptists different from Presbyterians?..etc) How are they all different from the Catholic Church?

Thanks so much!

first, no it isn't wierd.
second, protestants and all the other branches or all the non-catholic christians (depending on how you want to look at it) are so numerous I wouldn't know what number to give you... many have broken into individual groups as your mentioned lutheran and methodist but many of them have branched off within their own group... religion is an ever growing thing and changes to accomidate peoples minds as they change.
Third, the largest differences I have noticed between the catholic church and the other groups are that catholics take the wine to blood and bread to flesh literally... while most of the others I've researched view it more as a metaphor. Also the Catholic churchs acts as a monarchy within its own systerm where as the other groups are much more democratic in their actions...
I don't know if any of that made sense or helped any... I mean no offense to either side as I don't practice either side specifically... hoped that helped!
luck to you
Frost

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I am completely confused about what I am. In regards to religion. I know i am christian, but I know nothing about it. I have never read the bible..and I know that most of the stuff in it I don't truly believe. And does God look down upon me for choosing not to believe parts of the bible?

The bible, no matter how you look at it has been picked apart and rewritten and edited since the first day it was considered a holy text. Man was not meant to contain divine thoughts of God and if there are parts of the bible you don't believe or consider to far fetched just remember that the bible no matter how divinly interpretted was written at the hands of man... and mortal men are prone to flaws and biases. So I wouldn't worry to much about God looking down on you... just try to be a good person and it'll all fall into place.
Luck to you
Frost

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but my friend is a chrisitan. He wants me to go to church with him every week, and im not all that enthusiastic. I feel guilty for even thinking about saying no because i get all self concious when i think of him thinking of me as a sinner. Anyways we were having a very good time at a footbal game and then we were talking about stuff and somehow the topic just came up about dying. He was like, no offense but if you died right now i think you'd go to hell. He was being really serious. Well, it depressed the hell out of me. Im a nice person, i dont try to judge people, i like to share, my morals are higher then anyone elses and then i get depressed because i cant live up to them. I was really hurt but i didnt let on. He wouldnt elaborate, he said we could talk about it on the phone sometime. Well, do you think it was right of him to say that? Or am i just being dumb? I cant help but feel like im some kind of 'project' hes trying to save...

No... I don't think that it was right of him to say that. And I think he's wrong, if you are like you say, a generally good person who tries not to judge other and treats others decently than heaven is just as reachable for you as it is for him. It is my firm belief that undernieth it all we are all trying to reach the same place and just have different ways of getting there. No one path is better than the other, and in something as philisophical and untouchable as religion no one has the right to throw stones...
What you need to do is find the grounds that you are comfortable on, the morals that you believe are imortant and the ideals that matter the most to you and try to live up to them because YOU want to not because your christian friend tells that you need to believe them. You need to find what works for you, and if someone ever tells you that your going to hell you say to them "I know I'm a good person, and I know that I will go some place equally as good" and leave it at that. If you want feel free to throw in "I'll see you there!"
I hope that helps, and feel better because whatever Immanent Will you believe in or follow will know you better than an mortal man.
Good Luck
Frost

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First of all, let me clear the air. Im a sexually active 20 year old, Ive never been married, and I personally see nothing wrong with premarital sex, or sex in general.

But.

I have many friends who are Christian or Catholic, and they are (in my opinion) anywhere from sexually repressed at best, to afraid of and disgusted by sex at worst.

I cant really talk to most of them about it, simply because its a very uncomfortable subject.So I pose the question to the masses. For those of you who are religious, what are your views on sex, and why?

Thought provoking answers might get my screen name for further discussion, if you like. Any answers that sound something like

"ur crazy! Sex is uber cool! I LOVE SEX AND THERS NOTHIN WRONG WITH IT!! hope I helped plz rate"

or outright flames will get a 1.

I’m not extremely religious in the traditional Christian sense but I do have a strong belief system. I am a sexually active 20 year old also. A while back I dated a guy who was extremely religious, gradually it came out that I was some how inferior in his way of thinking because of my experience and morals vs. his innocence. I have since pondered over questions similar to what you are posing now.

He told me a very generic reason, God wanted us pure so that we could meet each other in perfect love and happiness… and to be perfectly honest I didn’t believe it. Gradually I came to realize that the idea of sex almost disgusted him… and I didn’t understand that. How can someone be raised to fear sex?

I can understand the romantic notion of saving yourself for your one true love… but when we dissect that statement in today’s culture and throw in that 2/3 of marriages today ends in divorce, the chances of finding your true love and losing your virginity to the ‘one’ you were saving it for seems kind of foolish.

In my humble and unprofessional opinion religion has not evolved, while social and world culture is constantly taking giant leaps. Maybe religion should be expanded as more of a set of moral guide lines and suggested paths to follow than rules that if broken will damn a person.

Personally, I believe that a person’s psychological balance should be the determining factor on whether or not premarital sex is good idea, not what the bible says or what the church has decided… it’s a personal decision that needs to be decided from personal opinions and morals… where those morals originated from can vary, whether they came from a religious stand point or are family rooted, it doesn’t matter… A person should do what’s good for them because of how THEY feel not because of what an institution tells them they should do.

I hope this at least gives you something to ponder or consider good luck in your quest for knowledge.
Frost
Aim: ForgottenFrost21

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Okay, you probably already know this, but my best friend in the whole world is Mormon. She believes she's a Christian, but I know that Mormons are not. I also know a lot of her friends too. I am worried about them. I want to be able to tell them what is wrong with it, but I don't want to be like "I have been your friend for a whole year and I love you and by the way, you are going to hell." Cuz that would really suck. I recently made a comment on someone's site saying that I believed Mormonism to be non-Christian, as did the owner of the site. My friend has seen it, and now she wants to know what I am talking about. I really want to save my friend, but she is a strong mormon with a strong mormon background, and I don't know what to do... I hate thinking that someday I may never see her again if she were to get in a car accident or something.

Sites if you want to know more:

http://www.icubed.com/~rpoe/mormons.htm

http://www.concernedchristians.org/

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/mormon1.html

http://mormonconspiracy.com/

http://www.mormon.org/

http://lds.org/

http://www.gracevestal.org/truth.htm

All of those sites may not be legit, or even helpful, but I really want to be able to do something about this. It is entirely possible that she doesn't know that she does not believe what other Christians believe. I have read so many books and such and it just kills me to know that she is involved with this and doesnt even know how bad it is.

I am not saying that Latter-day saints are bad, because most of them are really nice....I just know that their interpretation of Jesus is different and I wish there was a nice way to show them what I believe and help them.

Some of the main differences between mormons and christians:

belief that the trinity is 3 separate gods vs. the trinity is 3 persons in one god.

belief in salvation through works vs. salvation in believing in jesus christ

reguarding the book of mormon as more important than the bible vs. reguarding the bible as the only true book from god.



this has been bugging me for the last year and i really want to do something without jepordizing my friendship with her. she is curious now because of the comment on that other person's xanga.

also, if you know who i am talking about, please do not tell her i am going behind her back, because i am afraid she will be mad. i am simply trying to help her and her family and friends because i care so much about her that i never want to be uncertain of what will happen if she were to pass.... and i have a feeling that the person whose xanga i commented on will feel the same way, if not more of you....

In my honest opinion I don't think your friend needs saving. I don't think she is going to hell, just as you aren't either. While Jesus is a very important aspect of christianity, his teachings focused on acceptance and love, he travelled across the middle east doing good deeds in the name of God saving people and helping where he could, but it was his diciples who did the baptizing and the word spreading, his diciples created the religion that branched off from judiasm. So the way I see it religion is more of a tool, a guideline to becoming or being a good person so that you might please God.
ok all that is meant to say, that if you believe in a greater good, like God, and take the steps to being a good and accepting person, that you aren't going to hell... we are all trying to get to the same place in the end, christians mormons muslims ect. we all just have a different way of getting there.
Good luck to you.

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Why do atheists have a problem with Christian's trying to spread their religon? They seem to always get so defensive and mean. It really bugs me because they can't have an open mind to what someone else says without flipping out. Like Christian religon says "help those who don't believe in God" or something, and the atheists just FLIP out. I've been open minded to many atheists I know and listen to what they say about it calmly without saying their opinions are dumb, but then when I mention my relgion, they say it's so stupid and get mad at me for talking about it.

Anyway, to sum it all up, you basically just need to read the first sentence.

Religion or any belief system is personal, and I know a lot of people not just atheists who become defensive when the topic of religion comes at hand. I don't think it's just an atheist thing, I know christians who get defensive when I talk about my beliefs (which are more eastern). I think people has a whole do not like being forced out of their comfortable way of thinking.
Luck to you
Frost

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Why should people become Christains? Like what iss the purpose in it?

Honestly I don't know why people should become christians, I've always found it particualrily constraining.... ex. " you have to believex,y and z before you can go to heaven and only christians go to heaven." That is really quite the opposite of the way I see things... Perhaps they become christian because they need something solid with a strong foundation which that religion has, perhaps they want to feel united through their religion with other people. Whatever the reason, its not a bad thing to be christian, its just another group of people trying to get the same end nearly everyone else is working for... luck to you!

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Arite everyone, i was able to last about a week with out looking at porn but just like 20 minutes ago, i cracked and i couldnt handle it. a week is probably the longest time ive ever been able to do it. But i still need help

Why is looking at porn a bad thing? Sexuality is a natural part of the human function and if your a guy so is getting off, if your a girl I applaud you most women won't look at the stuff, but chances are you are a guy. If you think what is going on is bad, don't try to quit cold turkey that is one thing the body doesn't tolerate well, ease off it slowly, once a day, every otherday, every third day once a week, so on and so forth. Good luck to you on whatever you decide

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my parents get mad at me whenever i say something about religion that doesnt agree with their views. they tell me im to young to have an opinion about that kind of stuff. and i do. and im not that good at communicating. so should i just tell them that i believe in god? even though i have doubts?

thanks.

I'm guessing your young, and I think its customary to have doubts about things, even your faith when you are that age. In my opinion faith and religion is personal choice, and while it may be important to you parents and family, I think you have to find what works for you, what you think in your gut is true. If you are having doubts about God himself, I suggest researching other religions... not to find a new religion, but to see and try understand what other people believe. I found that knowing what other people thought helped define what I personally believed on the matter. For example, you will find in most major religions, that the commandments hold true, they just aren't called the ten commandments in all religions. In my personal opinion, God reaches people (all people) in a way they will understand and accept, hence all the religions in the world today, Christianty couldn't be understood by everyone, so God reached people in a variety of ways that they would accept..... I think for the time being, it might be ok, to say you believe in God, until you figure out what you personally believe, if they ask, just tell them that you are trying to personally define god in a way that you understand. Sound good?

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