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DiamondGirllovesHarleys |
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They put so much pressure on you and you can't possiblly live up to their standards. Everything you do is wrong. There is no hope. For people who are
supposed to be Christians who are preaching the gospel and by the way gospel is supposed to mean good news they sure don't have any. If your not tithing
your gonna burn in hell and your cursed and nothing will go right for you ever. If you tell the truth and say your sick when you really are instead of smiling
and lying str8 thru your teeth and saying I am fine and healed then its your fault your sick. The list just goes on with their never ending list of don'ts.
The bible says that Jesus came to set the captive free. They are being help captive in a prison they made for themselves. All their rules and regulations. This
goes for charismatics as well they may allow you to wear pants and make up but they still have all the rules I am talking about but sometimes they are more
subtle about it. They are still just as bad with their subtle or not so subtle mind control.
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not1perfect |
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diamongirl - I know exactly what you mean - I was under such a heavy burden and feeling like I was condemned all the time - that when I left it felt like a heavy burden had been lifted off of my shoulders - a burden that these pentes. put there. Like you said "Jesus came to set the captive FREE!!! |
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lozza |
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Hi not1perfect, I've sent you a message. Didn't see yours until a few minutes ago......
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charliedog |
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Thank you so much for your honesty.I thought I was the only one who reacted like that to charismania and I felt such a fool and
a failure and so lacking in energy and pride in my own personhood. Going to sleep and wanting to blank it all out is exactly what I do and did. This board has
been enormously helpful, because I thought it was just me being stupid. I blamed myself.
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DiamondGirllovesHarleys |
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No Charliedog your not alone I cried myself to sleep for years. I felt like such a failure I would repent everyday for being human. I would literally get on my
face and cry and beg God to please end my life because I didn't want to kill myself but I couldn't be and I couldn't do what I was told. I failed
miserablly it was painful. I wanted so bad to be good but I couldn't. I was so into putting myself down. I would watch every little thing I did and repent
for it rather it was good or bad if I thought it was bad I would repent for days upon days. That is not life nor is it livng.
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tandc90 |
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I think this is typical of the charismaniac experience in one form or another. I definitely struggled with the feeling of never being quite good enough to
please God since I never experienced any miracles or exceptional blessings or any of the other things they use to prove you're good enough. I constantly
felt less than and like god's stepchild. I was constantly monitoring my thoughts and actions in order to figure out how to get it right for a change.
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walkawayarchie |
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Over 26 years later, and I still constantly feel as if my best is never good enough.
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not1perfect |
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The church I was in preached "perfectionism" and since we are "human beings" we cannot become perfect. I don't know where these people
get their FALSE doctrines and ideas from - must be the devil cause they sure cause destruction to alot of people!!! (lol)
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bootsiebabe |
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No devil involved... just mere humans attempting to produce and create their own utopia by use of "thought contagion". (Lynch)
BTW, have you ever heard of the book Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch. A very good book that helps describe how easy it is to control people... A book that helped me learn how NOT to be so adoptive toward others subtle or blatant desire to get me to live by their ideology vs. just being my own self.
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not1perfect |
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bootsiebabe wrote:bootsie - Just joking about the devil - the book sounds good - must read it! Thanks. |
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charliedog |
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Bootsie - that book looks great.
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CaroG87 |
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The really scary part about this is that a lot of the P/C'ers I know are truly some of the most carnal people imaginable ........ it's always about
what God can give me, what God (or someone else) can do to advance my standing, my agenda, my whatever. And yet these are the same people who preach leaving
carnality behind for spirituality?
It amazes me how through the millennia so many Christian leaders preached and practiced a lifestyle that spoke of denying the self for the spiritual. Now, I'm not saying they all did (trust me, I can give just as many examples of what not to do") ...... but take St. Francis of Assisi. Loaded with family money, could have whatever he wanted .... and he chucks it all to live the mendicant life. Look at what he started and how many people in 700 years or so have followed his example in some way. Or there's St. Therese of Lisieux, who touted the "little way" -- finding joy and satisfaction and purpose in even the most mundane of chores or duties. In a little over than 100 years since her death, people have taken up that frame of thinking and said, "Sure, I can do that." So why is it that P/C seems to think this is not a good example, and instead constantly harps on the blessings you can receive if you toe the line and hound people and cry and run and scream and try to curry God's favor through that ..... all about me? Where's the sense in that? |
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tandc90 |
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The really scary part about this is that a lot of the P/C'ers I know are truly some of the most carnal people imaginable ........ it's always about what God can give me, what God (or someone else) can do to advance my standing, my agenda, my whatever. And yet these are the same people who preach leaving carnality behind for spirituality? Great post. I agree 100%. That's been my experience also. |
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walkawayarchie |
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Yet they preach abandoning money, etc. and denying the self.
One thing I've come to realize- people who talk like that generally haven't been in a really tough situation. Their lives are easy. |
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not1perfect |
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In the Pente church where I went the people were complaining that when they were sick or in the hospital, etc., that nobody came to visit them or even call
them from the church. These preachers didn't care about the people - they were only using them for their own financial gain and to boost their already
inflated egos. As far as I am concerned they are "users" and when they can't "use' you and you're down and out - they want nothing
to do with you.
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