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God tells us many times in the Bible how important wisdom and understanding is. These are not silly questions. God tells us wisdom is the principal thing, and with all of our getting, to get understanding. Proverbs 4:7. He also tells us that if we seek, we will find. Matthew 7:7. That’s his promise to us. If we want the truth bad enough, we will find it Good luck on your journey!

@Monster EnergyThat’s a good question and it’s not one I have the answer to. It does seem like, if God is so big and powerful why does he need a gender? And there are certain answers I could come up with that may provide some explanation. I think too, why wouldn’t he have a gender? Look at our world and see how powerful gender is in life. If we are made in God’s image as the Bible says we are, that to me says gender is something meaningful.

When I was 22 I sat in my first Vipassana retreat. At that point I had taken psychedelics a fair amount of times, during which I had encounters with what I thought was divine light (God). After the meditation retreat in which I had an awakening, I officially set foot on a spiritual path. I became obsessed with finding out what the answer to the mystery was. Fueled by plenty of psychedelics, therapies, healing retreats, etc. I thought I was getting closer and closer to finding the answers and healing I knew deep in my soul was possible. But with the high of finding out some new truth and thinking I finally got it, came a new layer of questions and going back to the drawing board. I so deeply wanted to find myself, to find peace, to feel spiritually satisfied. I knew this was possible because I had caught glimpses of this on my 14 year spiritual journey. But toward the end I was scattered, lost, confused. I had opened myself up to dark spirits and could no longer fight them off with the things I had learned on the path. Jesus was my last resort. He saved me from the evil I was involving myself in. He put my soul back together. He healed my depression and suicidal thoughts. He showed me how to enjoy life again. A spiritual path without Jesus is one of highs and lows that ultimately leads you worse off than when you started. And you don’t even realize it’s happening because it’s masked as love and light. But when he pulls you out you can finally look back and thank him for everything he’s done

Like it literally was God’s will they were healed

You want to go cold turkey? Or you still want to be able to use it? I feel like if you’re determined enough to go cold turkey you could do it and not use it at all. But if you still want access to it, it’s a little more challenging because yeah you’re stepping foot into the river and it’s hard not to get wet. So I bought a Brick device, which means I can lock my phone out from certain apps indefinitely, unless I have the tool to unlock it next to me. That really helps. And I also have two more buffers on Instagram. One of them kicks me out after I’ve been on for 15 minutes and the other one makes me take a breath and sets a time limit for me. This addiction is a challenging one, you basically have to be very determined. Also if you have a higher power that helped me a lot.

Haha can you imagine if a white person said that about “black people shit”

Well, you wouldn’t just dump your emotions on an adult would you? Children are humans too I think we forget that.

I believe that this exaggeration of emotions is done to (unconsciously) get more of a response back from the child. Since children are young they are taking everything in very acutely and they often don’t respond how adults think they should. Often times this looks like a blank stare from the child or some other response that to us seems socially unacceptable but really, it’s because the child is processing everything you’ve just said.

Do you think this is something I pulled out of my ass? (said with love)

Saying that everything is love makes sense in the physical world, but what about the spiritual world? There's a war between good and evil going on. A clear distinction. If it were all good there wouldn't be such a hard line between the two.

@theleelajoker You know the question: why dos God allow suffering? Is one of the biggest questions to ask and I’ll be honest, I still wonder about it. One of the things I think is: would it be perfectly loving and just to stop all suffering right now?

There are certainly times when drama stops instantly! But it is certain to come back. I don’t subscribe to a lot of the beliefs that circulate on here.

You talk about “drama” which I perceive as a petty thing, but you also talk about deep suffering which is more serious. They are two very different things although can overlap in ways. Deep suffering is not a thing that can just be erased “like that”. If this were possible humans would have done it. Instead we see thousands of practices that attempt to erase it, but never quite get there. In fact the more one walks lovingly on such a path the more accepting and understanding they become of this fact. Now to the best of my ability I’m going to answer what we are trying to distract ourselves from. From my understanding it’s a deep emptiness and a fear of death. Simply put. Where do you go from here? It’s tough, life keeps happening and you will (hopefully) grow older and have more experiences of a wide variety. I don’t think the ache ever goes away to be honest. Thankfully I found God and he’s my rock. But I still suffer like everyone else.

In the bible, sex IS considered marriage according to God. "Fornication" is NOT sex before marriage. Most churches get that wrong. Paul actually does talk a bit about this in some of his letters. 1 Corinthians 7 is a place to start. He chooses to stay unmarried which he says is a good thing but (and I'm paraphrasing) if you really want to marry, then do it. I'm also pretty sure he says in a separate letter that being married comes with certain challenges but he does not forbid it. Anyway, I'm still learning about the bible so I don't know a lot but that chapter I referenced should give some ideas for you.