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To: HiTech RedNeck

Devil’s wind? There was heavy drinking on both sides of the family. I don’t have a problem with consuming alcohol on a regular basis; my ONLY problem with it is I still don’t know my limits, and go from buzzed to waking up, not remembering what happened. I wasn’t a bad kid - didn’t get into fights, nothing of that sort. Didn’t do homework, but that wouldn’t be considered a sin, would it? Never felt an overwhelming urge to go to bed with anything with a pulse, as such, I only just had a short term girlfriend end of last year, in which I finally went to bed with someone, at the age of 27.

Ensnared by the devil/satan? I laugh in his face. You’ll have to dig deeper than that.


231 posted on 05/19/2013 6:29:27 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: wastedyears

Well, in a way it would be like telling the proverbial fish about kinds of water. The first thing the fish will ask is “what’s water”? (You are probably familiar with the adage that the last thing a fish notices about its environment is water.) But it matters to the fish if it’s being told it should swim to the ocean and avoid that stream which heads to the sewer pipe.


232 posted on 05/19/2013 6:34:34 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: wastedyears

Anyhow... what we call sins here are the outward showing of a situation of spirit called “sin.” How bad or not it looks from the outside isn’t the issue. It’s not like adding up brownie points or demerits. It’s a symptom of separation from God. It needn’t be pea soup barfing dramatic to be the wrong (rebel against God) spirit, and all the wrong spirits are going to be sent to hell in the end.


233 posted on 05/19/2013 6:37:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: wastedyears

Anyhow, your situation poses a challenge. It’s clearly a bummer. It would be a bummer to me. But it has highlighted a spiritual need. Do you really think that God’s best wish for you is to end in ennui and despair? I don’t think it is. That’s the Evil One’s wish.


235 posted on 05/19/2013 6:41:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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