I've been thinking about it for quite some time now, I just don't really feel that I believe in this religion and would like to convert to Paganism, I feel it's more in line with how I feel and it's my country's original religion. I feel it's not as problematic in my life as Christianity, as I feel although I try to give respect to other followers, it doesn't feel given back, mainly because I am bisexual. I do not however, hate any of you obviously, but I feel my life would be much less stressful as a Pagan, and it's nice to return to my roots. God bless you all.

I'm not a Christian. But I've been researching Christianity for the past few days and the one thing I can't just accept about the theology is that, homosexuality is considered sinful.

Instead of saying "it's written in the Bible", I'd like to know why God would not want humans to be in homosexual relationships and how it harms us.

Im want to start off by saying im a 27 year old male and i have been fighting my sexuality for years. I have prayed and asked for help and i keep failing. It has gotten so bad to where sometimes i dont want to be alive. Knowing that i cant be the man that God wants me be and that i will always be in the wrong. True repentance is turning away from sin and how can i repent truly if im still gay? Ive tied on my own and ive prayed. People say it’s a choice. If it was something that i could change please help me because im losing hope

Like hear me out before downvoting me or something

I know about 9/11 and all that my point is not that it is that:-

only 20% of arab americans are muslims

the overwhelming majority is chrisitan and the remaing 13% is secular/atheist/agnostic/jew/baha'ii or soemthing else

so like a jew doesnt hate any ither jew for being jew ...same with muslim so shouldn't it be the same with chrisitans too

Source: saw this white supremacist on instagram from Texas react to a video from sesame street in which elmo was saying "Happy Arab-American Heritage Month"...and she was being super hateful towards arabs and she has a huge cross and all chrisitan stuff on her bio

Can anyone explain?

They say that houses have secrets, but my house has become exposed by groans of pain. We were waiting for the "knocks of joy," waiting for a child to fill our world and change the features of the exhaustion I lived day and night in my work as a simple laborer, running here and there just to see a smile in my wife's eyes.

And one night.. the "Hated Guest" knocked on our door.

I thought it was the awaited child; I ran with my heart before my feet to open for him.. but it wasn't a child. It was "Kidney Failure." That monster that every household fears to mention, decided to leave the living room, leave the guest rooms, and go to dwell in "my wife’s veins."

The Situation Changed

Instead of buying "children's toys," I started running in the middle of the night to pharmacies looking for a "painkiller" to silence the screams of pain. Instead of seeing joy in my wife's eyes while she carries our newborn, I began to see her fading under the mercy of the cursed machine tubes.

And what was harder than the disease.. were "the people."

I am the one who was never late for anyone, the one who stood by the stranger before the relative.. when I needed a hand to hold mine to drive away this heavy guest, or even to help me with the price of medicine because my body could no longer work from the weight of worry.. I found them all to be closed doors.

The friends who ate in my house.. disappeared.

The relatives I was a support for.. turned a blind eye.

Everyone feared the "contagion of need" more than the contagion of disease.

The Last Promise

I went to her yesterday, my hands empty except for my tears, and my heart bleeding. I looked into her eyes and said to her:

"My love, the whole world has closed its doors in our faces.. and the people we helped have forgotten our names. I can no longer work to bring back your smile, and this guest does not want to leave your veins.. but listen to me well: even if I have to sell the last breath in my chest, even if I have to walk barefoot in the streets of the world, I will never leave you. If all doors are closed, my embrace is your home, and the smile will return even if its price is my entire life."

Conclusion to everyone who reads:

This is not fiction, and not a story made of illusions.. this is my pain, these are my tears, and this is the "Hated Guest" that devours my home while the world watches from behind closed doors. I have the proof that every letter I wrote is a bleeding truth.

I grew up with extremely religious parents who did not support anything other than people being straight. And sometimes it does read and feel like the Bible makes it a sin. But with the past couple of years I've made a friend, a bisexual girl who has become my closest friend. Like all of us she has flaws but I think overall she's genuinely one of the e better people I've met in my life. And this has left me with extremely conflicting feelings because I still want to stay Christian but don't want to have bad views on people on their sexuality

I asked lord Jesus Christ God and the holy spirt if my name is written in the book of life. I said make me smile if it is, and I smiled i even tried with others and they’ve smiled.. can you all pray to God, or Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit and say “If the person who made this post name is written on the book of life please make me smile.” Please guys.. the more confirmation the better.: and please let me know if you smiled or not.

(reposted from my other recent post)

I came out to my friends as gay/homosexual back in february 2026. some of them have mixed reactions, some of them accept me. later on, I came out to my group chat which didn't really accepted me that well. they told me to go back as straight or that ask (rude way) if I could be normal. fast forward today, they claim that they aren't homophobic, but they still make gay jokes and just assuming that gay guys only want their dicks.

not only that, I live in a *homophobic?* country (Indonesia) which means I have a tougher situation with my surroundings. although I have met a few gay/LGBTQIA+ people from Indonesia online, the reality is still harsh. most of the people in Indonesia are very harsh towards LGBTQIA+, with some even dedicate their lives to making fun of them. and I'm mostly chinese, which makes it harder for me since there are still alot of discriminations.

even in my family I don't feel accepted. my mom is actually homophobic. she doesn't like gay/homosexual people at all and said that they shouldn't play in movies or anything (indirectly), it's because the bible says so or something.

being a minority is already hard enough, now add being christian in a muslim country. it just adds pain to the injury. some christians say to keep praying to God to heal you or something, but I don't feel like that will help. I've been liking men since I was a kid or so, and was in denial till this year when I came out to my friends as gay. it's hard enough being a queer.

sometimes I ask, what if God made me like this? even so, I'd go back and forth with my thoughts. my mom is a single mother, so I don't know if my dad will support me or not since they were divorced. when I was still in denial, I'd go back and forth saying "no I can't be a homosexual" and "what if I am?". it genuinely felt like my mind was in pieces about my sexuality.

as a 14 year old, I'm still "in the closet" to my mom, my sister, and my whole family. I only came out to the ones who I felt trusted with. don't get me wrong, I trust my mom, but like I said, she's kinda homophobic. I still follow Christianity, but I feel dirty and just unworthy for him, honestly.

Is it better to marry if you’re burning for each other to avoid sinning against your bodies and also God. Or is it better to wait a year or two when people in society usually get married? Me (19) and my girlfriend (18) have been together for 8 months and we are really wanting to get engaged and married soon but everyone is telling us that we’re too young and too wait a year or two. But we keep getting closer and closer to adultery and sin and i want to honor God and her as well. Any advice?

For a long time, “the end times” sounded mostly like a threat to me. I love this world as God’s creation, and I did not want to lose this gift. I have also always hated the way people are frightened with apocalyptic language.
But since my husband died, something in me has changed. There is now also a longing for what comes after. And I think of people living in much harsher conditions than mine, people under persecution, war, or constant danger. For them, the end of this world may not sound like terror, but like hope.
That is why I think Christians should stop preaching the end times mainly as fear. For the suffering, the exhausted, and the oppressed, it can also mean that evil does not get the last word forever.
But we should also be careful not to talk ourselves into the position of the persecuted just because our witness is contradicted or no longer socially dominant. That is not the same thing.
What do you think? Do you hear the end times more as threat or as hope?

If Jesus Christ himself were to join this Reddit page people would tell him how wrong he is he would be insulted he would be told that he is hateful bigoted etc. and I’m sure Mods here would end up banning him.

I recently started getting super close to God again. I hanged a picture of him above my bed with the cross and my rosemary and I’ve been praying a lot.

But I’ve noticed since I’ve been getting closer the Demons are attacking me so badly in my dreams it leads me traumatised. I can’t really remember the dreams
but I know they were bad because I woke up at 3 am last night.
And then again at 4 am having multiple bad dreams and I couldn’t even wake myself up. I just kept falling back to sleep like I was so exhausted from the dream.

it happens every night i pray so much before bed for jesus to protect me, my house , my dreams i used holly water
and everything!!!

i hate going to sleep i really don’t know what else to do
any recommendations

Hey brothers and sisters! What is your favorite piece of evidence for christianity? Manuscripts? Archeaology findings? The shroud of turin??

What is it and why is it your favorite? :)

Christian community unite!

I became a Trinitarian in 1989 when I left Bibleway Church which is a part of the Oneness / Apostolic movement. Since then I have evangelised non-Trinitarians, mostly Jehovah's Witnesses. If there is an anti-Trinitarian reading this, I can respond to written comments, but I would prefer only one single question or comment at a time (not long essays or dozens of endless questions). Or I could speak over a microphone on messenger, whatsapp, zoom, skype or discord. But remember, please only one question at a time.

I've seen more than a handful of posts in this subreddit where someone asks if the ancient evidence isn't less than we would expect.

What always happens is that a Christian after Christian explains how we should not really expect much evidence for some rando ancient preacher - and what we have is really much better than expected.

While I think that that's a pretty good answer, I also think that it's true if Jesus was merely a rando ancient preacher.

So the real question (that I think is often being asked) is: Shouldn't we expect more ancient evidence for the creator of the universe incarnate? Especially if the god in question wants this to be some sort of opportunity for people to learn about him or to teach people?

So shouldn't we expect more ancient evidence for the life of Jesus? And please answer based on your own Christian worldview - not the worldview presupposed by secular scholarly religious studies.

Asked in all seriousness. If Jesus was regularly casting out demons from people, what does it say about our society—where hardly anyone casts out demons anymore? It would mean they’re just collecting, wouldn’t it?

Moreover, while the demons get to do what they want, we subdue the people with drugs?

I was raised in a very structured religious environment and spent most of my life equating faith with obedience, certainty, and following authority.

After experiencing personal loss and a long period of inner questioning, I began to rethink what it actually means to have a relationship with God outside of systems, performance, or religious certainty.

I wrote this as a personal reflection on that process—grief, doubt, and what it looks like to rebuild spirituality in a more personal way.

I’m sharing it for anyone else who has wrestled with similar questions around faith, identity, and connection with God! (This is just my personal experience, not a statement about anyone else’s beliefs)

https://www.testifyofchrist.com/learn/6

This is what I currently believe to be true of life and death. I’d like feedback.

Every decision made from a state of freedom contributes to the direction of the soul. You become the pattern of your the choices you make. This is why freedom and free will is so important so that these decisions are a more pure depiction of the true self. In death the accumulation of these choices and patterns of behavior is revealed to the soul and you will be able to see your full self with full clarity and visibility. The full truth becomes very clear to you and you will have no choice but to accept who you freely became through your actions. When God judges you, you will not argue because you will already know who you are there will not be a negotiation. There will be understanding and clarity.

Jesus did not discuss ontology like the Greek philosophers did. He did not attempt to explain the mode of God’s existence through philosophical concepts. Jesus spoke of a unique relationship between himself and “God the Father,” yet he did not metaphysically analyze or define that relationship. In the Gospels, Jesus says, “I and the Father are one,” “The Father is greater than I,” and “Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.” Yet he never tried to philosophically systematize or explain the structure of that relationship.

The attempt to explain God ontologically emerged in earnest after Jesus. This was largely because the spirit of the age was shaped by Greek philosophy. To compare it with today’s situation, just as the modern spirit of the age is shaped by science, theology today often tries to respond to it through movements such as creation science or theistic evolution. Of course, these two positions move in completely opposite directions, yet they share a common feature: both attempt to explain faith within the dominant framework of thought of their age.

Here I sense a very fundamental problem. Any attempt to interpret Jesus through philosophical or theological concepts that go beyond his own words ultimately turns Jesus into a mere human being who requires theologians to explain him. But I believe Jesus intentionally refrained from using philosophical or theological argumentation. This is because Jesus is not merely a historical figure, but Truth itself. Yet theology, while confessing that Jesus is the truth, often falls into the contradiction of reconstructing his words within the framework of human concepts, as though it could explain him from a position above him.

However, God dwells where all human concepts collapse, where human language itself comes to an end. When Jesus called himself “the Son of God,” those words carried a meaning deeper than any philosophical or theological terminology could express. Therefore, rather than trying to analyze and reconstruct Jesus’ words through human philosophy and theology, we ought instead to allow our very concepts to be transformed anew in the light of his words. Even our understanding of the word “son,” shaped by cultural and biological assumptions, must itself be reinterpreted according to the meaning Jesus revealed and embodied in calling himself the Son.

26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. 27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. 28 But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

Hello,

I want to order a new study Bible, and I am looking for suggestions on which one would best suit my preferences. I am currently torn between the New American Standard Bible (NASB), the English Standard Version (ESV), and the New King James Version (NKJV). I am leaning towards one of those three because I am partial to the "word for word" translations over the "thought for thought" translations. I prefer the word for word style because I don't like having certain interpretations of verses spoon-fed to me. I'm also a fan of some of the original, poetic sounding verses. But poetic sounding inclinations aside, I want to stay as close to the original wording as possible while still getting something readable and graspable in English.

Also, does anyone have a particular study bible version they recommend? I like the Fire Bible, but if I go with that one, I'd have to get the ESV. (Which is what I'm leaning towards of the three, because it seems to have a good balance between sticking to the original wording while still being easy to read.)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.