Dear god... please help me

@divegeester there is no god

@thinkofone said
Yet many Christians believe in the Prosperity Gospel because it allows them to feel good about themselves to do so. Just as many Christians believe in the atoning sacrifice, the total depravity of man, that man cannot make himself righteous, that it is impossible to cease to sin, etc. because it allow them to feel good about themselves to do so (or at least not to feel too ...[text shortened]... em of beliefs that is almost antithetical to the gospel preached by Jesus while He walked the Earth.

@thinkofone said
From what I gather, they believe that they have fulfilled the requirements to live in the kingdom, receive eternal life and receive the Holy Spirit.

What do you think is going on there? They haven't received the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is largely ineffectual?

I knew it couldn't be anything about facing the reality of their sins.

What's to face? Their sins have been atoned for and they have been forgiven.

@suzianne said
And yet they continue to sin.

@whodey said
And probably wishes he hadn't.

@thinkofone said
And they believe that their sins have been atoned for and they continue to be forgiven.

What's your point?

@suzianne said
And yet they continue to sin. They are hypocrites.

That is my point.

@suzianne said
I always wondered how conservatives could face the differences between their actions and the teachings of Jesus.

Turns out that fooling themselves and making crap up in the Bible are leading strategies.

I knew it couldn't be anything about facing the reality of their sins.