LOL Musicman, I love it!
I watched the video and a couple of others on the same topic. It has been a LONG time since I have seen those charlatans on television (3+ years now). Prior to God bringing me to
www.bibletruths.com, I had been inundated all day every day by their blasphemous teachings via my then fiance, who was utterly consumed by their charades. I never believed a word they had to say and it was a constant point of strife between us. Thankfully, for a long time now I have not had to hear those evil slogans or the arrogance in their voices as they peddle the lusts of their own hearts. Sadly, it made me think of Stephen and remember the pain of realizing he had no discernment of God's truths, and there was no way I could/would ever marry him and unequally yoke myself to his false beliefs. Thanks to Ray's teaching, the Lord brought me to
2 Corinthians 6:14-18:
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Balaal? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." At the exact moment I first read that scripture, I understood what I was dealing with in Stephen and what I needed to do about it. God gave me the unswerving strength to never lay my eyes on Stephen again. (Stephen had always succeeded at persuading me to reconcile with him every time before then, but that was to never happen again.) It was that instantaneous. But that is not to say that it was not without much grief over the loss of a potential marital relationship I had once hoped would last the rest of my life. (Except for spiritual issues, we had a very good relationship.) Yet, the Lord was daily filling me with so much peace and joy at learning His Truths. It was an amazing experience, really. I haven't thought about that time in my life for a while. Seeing those charlatans again brings this all back to me. It's good to remember because it reminds me of how the Lord brought me through it with much love, compassion, understanding, reconciliation, joy, and peace. Wow, He is So Good!
You know something really funny? The event that God used to cause me to find
www.bibletruths.com was Stephen's constant barraging of me with his insistence that I tithe 10% of my income to his church. He had called me at work and "demanded" that I prove tithing was not scriptural and I told him to check his email. I got online and did a quick google search about tithing and
www.bibletruths.com was one of the pages that came up. I copied and pasted a few anti-tithing urls into an email to him, including
www.bibletruths.com, and the title, "Exposing Those Who Contradict," caught my eye. "Wait a minute," I thought, "let me email this one to myself at home and check it out from home tonight." The rest, as they say, is history.
Peace, y'all!
In His Service,
Cathy
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