Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Albion Wilde

>> “You’re being awfully harsh on people who were damaged by childhood abuse, severe trauma in adulthood such as rape or beatings, or are combat veterans, for just three examples off the top of my head” <<

.
But that abuse is part of the problem; it leads to self hatred, which leads to so-called autoimmune diseases, which are healed by confessing that self hatred and it’s cause.

If we want his healing we have to do it his way; roll your own just doesn’t work.


134 posted on 04/06/2013 6:05:26 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies ]


To: editor-surveyor
But that abuse is part of the problem; it leads to self hatred, which leads to so-called autoimmune diseases, which are healed by confessing that self hatred and it’s cause.

OK; now we're getting somewhere. Earlier you posted that it might take some people a long time. So what if someone kills him or herself before the lengthy time required for healing their individual sin is enough to keep them from accomplishing it on earth? Would God condemn their soul? I just don't think it's necessarily so, and I'm speaking as one who has experienced four friends who took this route. Trust me when I tell you, I have been over and over these deaths and the spiritual issues again and again for decades.

Yes, God and surrender to faith can heal. But no, we just can't say that the person who wasn't "done yet" when he took his/her life to end the pain has utterly failed spiritually; or that this is a black-and-white matter like a light switch.

Judgment is mine, saith the Lord.

147 posted on 04/06/2013 6:40:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Commies out of D.C.!" --Raoul Deming, 1955-2013)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson