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Starting Out Heavy

Brace yourselves, this is where I start stepping on toes and "offend" people. Listen. We're all entitled to our opinions, but that doesn't mean every opinion is right. I have the freedom of speech just as much as anyone else in this country does. I will start and end with this: expressing something as wrong is not "hate speech". If my child was running into the middle of the road, I'm going to stop them. Does that mean I hate my child? Anybody would say no. I love my child so much that I don't want to see them hurt or doing something that is wrong. Love speech is the ability to speak up about truth because you care for the other people enough to see the consequences of such actions. (And by the way, I don't have a child.) In saying this, I also have to bring up the fair point that there are Christians out there who ruin the name of Christian. They are hateful and judgmental, and I often equate them to the Pharisees in the Bible. Who was Jesus?
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Confession

Let me be frank for a minute. My boyfriend and I talked on FaceTime over this topic for a good two hours, it got too late to continue, so it ended up partially left in the air. After that day, I cracked open my Bible, searched google, and even asked my pastor for information.  This has to be the topic I have researched the hardest. Let's start at the confusion between the perspectives of my boyfriend and I. We were looking at confession after salvation. I felt that confession was necessary after we sin because God forgives us after we confess. I believed that sin separates us from God even after we're saved. Not separated in the manner of eternal damnation but relationally with Him. He felt that God had already forgiven us even before we confess it to God and there is no separation from Him at all.  Where did we end up? Well, we had a pretty heavy talk opening up the Word of God and studying it between the two of us. We looked at verses that dealt with confession. I st
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Read this first!

Let me first say that this blog is not for the faint of heart. This blog is not meant to attack anybody. My idea behind starting it is simply to express my thoughts through words. Writing is the easiest mechanism for me to explain and figure out what is happening in my head. You have been warned if you have come across this blog and decide to read what it's all about. Not too long ago, I got frustrated with myself. I realized that most of what I believed was only due to what I've been taught growing up in church or at home. Don't misunderstand me, I learned some extremely important things; but my understanding of those different subjects were only due to someone else saying so. I got in a rut of simply trusting any body's words instead of depending on the Word of God for answers. Finally, I had an eye opening moment. I acknowledged that if someone asked me why I believe what I believe, my only answer was, "someone told me." I wasn't living by the verse,
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