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USING GOD TO BROWBEAT AND INTIMIDATE |
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Posts: 146 (11/07/08 04:54:21) exPc Fan |
I have noticed and been a victim of God intimidation, what i mean is that if someone wants you to do somthing you do not want to do they use phrases such as
'' God will bless or curse you'' or God is not pleased . somtimes if i did not follow thru on somthing i was preached to. now have any of you
been thru this?
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Posts: 4080 (11/07/08 05:50:46) There are some who call me .... Timmay! |
Someone told me that if I stopped working for God, God would kill me.
Tim
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Posts: 473 (11/07/08 08:11:25) |
reboot06 wrote:Yeah, my ex-wife was always right, and God always seemed to want the same things that she did. For years she used God like He was a club she was given to beat me into submission to Her will. Needless to say, it didn't work. |
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Posts: 1288 (11/07/08 08:35:11) exPc Fan |
There was one minister that I had a stare down with when he preached for 6 weeks (he was only supposed to stay a week) and I was living with my aunt and thus
attended to keep the peace. He would yell things like, "I see that stony face staring at me!" Eventually he started prophesying and at one point said
some of those sitting in the pews would be killed by the death angel. The evangelist said that he would stand over our caskets while we scream in hell.
I have been told numerous times even by non-Pentecostals that I am going to hell. None of this scares me; I know it's all a load of crap. But it really angered me, and if the bullying came from a family member, it also hurt my feelings. But mostly it just angered me. I'm glad that I no longer have that mindset. I do NOT want to be like these sick people. James
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
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Posts: 805 (11/07/08 09:09:15) exPc Fan |
I was told, during the election, that John McCain was God's choice. And that all true Spirit lead christians will vote for him. I was given a very hard
time, because I supported Barack Obama, and voted for him in the Democratic primary.
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Posts: 1031 (11/07/08 11:20:17) exPc Fan |
Conservatarian wrote:Incredible. If McCain was gawd's choice, one would be inclined to think that McCain would have won the election.
Celebrating 25 years of being Pentecost free!
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Posts: 57 (11/07/08 11:22:45) |
yeah - if you take communion and you're not right with your brother god will curse you, if you step outside of god's protection (ie leave church or
dont do what they want you to) bad things will happen to you etc.
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Posts: 1289 (11/07/08 12:01:49) exPc Fan |
Weren't the extremists already prophesying that Palin would become president? They were a little off on that one.
James
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed."
-- Albert Einstein |
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Posts: 649 (11/07/08 17:17:28) exPc Fan |
Dang. Does this mean I can't tell P/Cers that "God don't like ugly"?????
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Posts: 243 (11/07/08 18:22:03) exPc Fan |
yeah as an ex upc-er i was ALWAYS told that....but it got really bad the night i pulled my pastor aside to tell him i was leaving the church. i told him i was
going to cut my hair, put on my pants, wear make up and *GASP* wear my wedding ring!!!!
he told me that was not god's will and i was following the path of satan....... so ridiculous...years later i can look back and laugh, but at that moment...i actually ran to my car...yeah-ran! |
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Posts: 1064 (11/07/08 18:48:13) exPc Fan |
dulce72 - I reckon that running right outta there was a very wise thing to do!
And how sick is that - wearing a wedding ring is satanic???? 
I always used to hear that God can only bless you if you step out in faith for him...this was most often used to get people to serve within the church.
Cruelty I believe is just one of the dark fruits of pentecostalism. - PepperMintPaty
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Posts: 3206 (11/08/08 01:14:40) Musical Mantric |
I had years of it....God's just waiting to bless me but he can't because I'm not being fully obedient...God will strike me dead, like he did
Saphira and Annanias...The Lord's not pleased with me....I'll end up being attacked and thrown down the stairs...God's patience towards me
won't last forever....and so forth.
I wasn't brought up Pentecostal, not even Christian, but my father often used to tell me that God was punishing me. |
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Posts: 112 (11/08/08 05:18:00) |
this is how the ministry can arouse strong emotion, which no one is going to know how to deal with.
the standard answer by most is to deny and say they don't let it bother them but the emotion is still there directing their behavior if you ask the pastor and are not conforming with him he will continue with the strong emotion bit by denying he was talking to you and go further by saying you must feel guilty, which you may have guilt feelings about something just not the issue he talks about. still he can draw from that guilt and put it to work for him |
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Posts: 60 (11/08/08 07:08:32) |
seeing misbehaving siblings being told they were possessed............. probably not the best parenting tactic! Worryingly tho my parents are honestly very
well meaning and loving just got that brain-washed by the church to be telling their young son (must have been about 10/12) he was possessed. Makes me wonder
how different things had been if we'd gone somewhere else!
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Posts: 200 (11/08/08 11:05:37) exPc Fan |
It was always a touchy subject when you bring the will of God into it. If "Sister-Talks-A-Lot" came up to you and starts saying, "I felt like
the Lord told me He wants you to...," you knew you were in trouble. If you did what they said then you were admitting that they hear from God and from
then on they could tell you what to do. If you didn't do what they said then you were either being a disobedient heathen or even worse, you were saying
that she doesn't really hear from God and that's the worst accusation you could bring to someone. It was a no win situation.
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Posts: 5 (11/08/08 18:37:34) |
Pentes get hung up on the dumbest ???? How about the edict against dancing?
The funny thing is that I went to a dance with my future wife very early on in our relationship. |
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Posts: 1290 (11/11/08 01:04:19) exPc Fan |
My grandma with some mental issues had a background in some form of Pentecostalism and once tried to exorcise the devil out of me. Not a good experience.
People who are mentally ill can be like that to begin with, but when you mix Pentecostal beliefs with it, it's really crazy....
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed."
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Posts: 3214 (11/11/08 01:15:24) Musical Mantric |
It was always a touchy subject when you bring the will of God into it. If "Sister-Talks-A-Lot" came up to you and starts saying, "I felt like the Lord told me He wants you to...," you knew you were in trouble. If you did what they said then you were admitting that they hear from God and from then on they could tell you what to do.Some of the people in the charismatic fellowship were into dreams and words of knowledge and I used to fear God giving them messages about me. The fear that gripped me the most was God telling close friends to break friendship with me. |
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Posts: 675 (11/11/08 09:33:56) exPc Fan |
I have been told when your a backslider (like me ect.) that God does not hear my prayers, and he does not have his protection on me anymore in any way (so i
can get killed in a car accident, struck down, murdered, ect.) and i'm letting satan into my household and kids. I've been told other things too
including I'm like Jezzabell and have a "rebellious spirit", and my name is blotted/or will be blotted out of the book of life. Let's see, I
was told I had "sexual sins" when I was a pre-teen and had not done anything more than kiss a boy, and yes I have been told i'm out of
"God's Will" or plan for my life, that I was not being healed because I had "secret sin" in my life or was not in the "word"
enough or did not have enough faith, ect.......there's so much I could go on and on and on and on............
No one knows the way I feel, a part of me I have to fight
Buried somewhere deep beneath my skin The emptiness in me is faded And I can see my life is waiting Now I know I'm living for who I am-Smile Empty Soul |
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