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Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Our niece, age 29, came to us this last week and came out as bisexual. Then she took it up a notch and announced that she is in a relationship with a man who is transitioning. Believe it or not, both of them were educated in (separate) home school systems. Both broke away from their Christian upbringing by attending a public university that indoctrinated them in woke culture. Her parents are unequally yoked with her mother a very legalistic Christian and her father in rebellion of his Baptist father, my late father-in-law. Both have stopped talking to her and refuse to meet her companion. My wife and I told her that we would not shut her out and would be willing to meet her companion. We felt that these are two people who need Jesus. According to our niece, her boyfriend is 31, HIS decisions are supported by His Christian parents and His 7 siblings. Apparently HE just started the medical steps of HIS transiting. I’m hoping that if I meet him soon enough that I can convince HIM to stop. Since she talked to us last Thursday, I have been researching the trans movement in GAW and I have researched several articles on what the Bible has to say about transitioning. The three articles I read all emphasized Deuteronomy 23:1 https://www.bible.com/bible/59/deu.23.1. While this is a very useable verse, as all Biblical verses are, I have to question if it would be effective for people who have totally rejected the Christian faith by resorting to this destructive behavior. I am soliciting from all readers here any advice they can offer as my wife and I agree to meet with these two young people. We have already informed our niece that we will not be using any preferred pronouns, and that we will lover the sinner and treat her companion humanely, we will not celebrate HIS life choice. Believe it or not, it took me a day to realize that if this GUY doesn’t transition, then they are in a normal hetero relationship. If anyone has any similar situation or advice to offer, we will give it consideration.
Its not for us to judge people. Its between them and the God. Parents should show love and be there as they see the light.
https://sophiainstitute.com/product/desist-detrans-detox/
Desist Detox and Detrans it’s a book and also available on Amazon and audible. It is one of the only resources for parents or relatives that wish to break their kids out of the cult. It is a cult. I commend your choice. I despise the agenda but I think you are absolutely correct in showing them both the love of Christ in this. Your niece is not bisexual she is in love with a man who thinks he is a woman and both have been sucked into a multi million dollar industry that uses cult programming to make new victims BONUS you get claim God makes mistakes. It is demonic IMHO. We don’t just surrender to the enemy we fight and we fight hard. The cult programs them to belief all Christian’s hate them. That is a lie. We love them enough to speak truth but just as you love any other sinner you don’t show love with rejection. We can reject their ideas and we should not support the delusion but that not the same thing as being hurtful or hateful to individuals especially those not fully indoctrinated or attacking others. Check out the book and I will be praying for yall.
Thank you. I hope I can read the whole thing before our first meeting.
Skim and skip fren and also remember that when we seek to act in Love God guides us
Wow. My reflex thought is that something about men is frightening to her, so the person who she feels closest to as a mate is a man who equally finds something off about being male. I always advise celibacy for people who have desires that go against their religious beliefs, or Christianity. There are more "asexuals" out there than you would think, and the whole gender thing has more to do, often, with just wanting to avoid sex, heterosexual sex, and I think we should all be tolerant of that. Perhaps it is natures way to prevent some from procreating, and yes, it happens in the animal world too. I do not see the reason for changing gender, if a person is not comfortable being a full blown heterosexual, with a libido. Some people just do not like sex, but want affection and companionship, I think there are a lot of so called lesbians who are like that. Whatever the case, she wanted to be honest, so, that is to her credit. I often wonder if the Eunuchs mentioned in the bible were all castrated men, and Jesus did not condemn them. Not to lower ourselves to animals, but some people just are not interested in breeding, whether that is psychological or by design, who knows? I think society, starting in the 60's really started sexualizing everything, and people who did not want to screw all the time were stigmatized, and it was not always due to sexual abuse when they were young. Lord knows, once everything is sexualized, it kind of makes sense that we, as a society, are burning out. Maybe porn has something to do with it, older men being predators of under age teens,, for a sincere person seeking companionship and love it could be a big turn off. Don't judge, God is the only one to do that, and if they are both adults, albeit confused, if they are not slipping into profane decadence and promiscuity, that is better than turning into these influencers who are giving each other a 100 men in 24 hours challenge, like that chick who made a million dollars doing it. That is not normal or God's plan either. Men are called faggots if they do not want to get laid all the time, and women are called Lezzies if they don't want to get laid all the time, when that may not be the case. Pray on it, God judges us when we go around judging others too. All we are told to do is to pray unceasingly that we may find a relationship with God,and if we keep telling people that God hates them, why is it any wonder people seek that Love somewhere else if they are confused and possibly frightened. I have influenced more people to seek God when I present a loving shepherd is waiting for them, than I ever would if I keep reminding them that they will burn in hell, but that is just my style. I became a moral, obedient servant to Christ slowly, for me, it started with sobriety, for her, it may start with quiet meditation for guidance. God bless your willingness to listen, and, as cliche as it sounds, it may just be a passing thing brought on by the confusion of surviving in a very sick world.
Can someone clarify w/respect to reading the BBB, did Schumer request that after it passed or before? Was this done by white hats to punish the Parliamentarian and staff?
None of the above. Black hats have to telegraph all their evil, to absolve them of Karmic debt in this life.
The reading of the bill was to ensure the public has a chance to know what was in the BBB, we are now knowingly giving consent to those who represent us to pass or deny this bill.
For good or for ill, we have been informed, if we cared to take notice of what was in the BBB, much good, much ill.
It has not passed. Schumer. demanded it be read before passage. This shows the hypocrisy of the Dems who said pathetically on another omnibus spending bill " You have to pass the bill in order to know what's in the bill."
They are still reading it aloud in the Senate as I wrote this.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm
This is glorious truth. Someone is brilliant in all of this. I suspect that God is working through all of it and I praise God.
You still have time to call or write your Senator. I already did. Like this:
Mullin.senate.gov, where "Mullin" is your Senator last name.
There's one thing that's never talked about and that's how much YouTube pays their content creators. Content creators are the people who make the videos. I know the pay is based off the amount of subscribers they have and the amount of thumbs up they get per video, but I haven't figured out yet if comments generate revenue too. At some point they quit their jobs and go YouTube full time. They are obviously getting paid way more from YouTube than what they were ever getting paid from their employer. How it remains such a secret is amazing. YouTube probably tells them if they utter one word about their pay they'll have their channel evaporated.
There are a few youtubers who have talked about this. Most keep it a secret because they dont want others to get an edge.
Basically the pay is per view and scaled by the content factor - like fashion related content gets higher scale and lets say some boring gardening content gets lower scale. Afaik the comments do not generate revenue. Its purely based on views. Also adding additional ads inside gets you more reventue for each person that watches all those additional ads.