Comment from Sally Law

Exceptional

This is outstanding, dear one! How eloquently you presented our God in truth and light. I come from a family of atnkests, and so e were so off it wasn't even funny. Two of my close relationship accepted the Lord at the very end of their lives; my brother, Mike, the day he died. He told his son, "Tell Sal I believe!"

Jesus did all these miraculous things and still calls us to believe. He is the only one risen from the dead, defeating death, hell, and Satan. Glory to God!

Sending you my best today for this wonderful post.
Blessings to you and yours,
Sal xoxo's

 Comment Written 05-Sep-2022

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reply by the author on 17-Sep-2022

Yes, dear Sal, glory to God! Jesus is Our Only Savior, and wonderful in love, majesty, holiness and truth! I didn't know that your family had so many non-believers. My family also seems to have quite a few -- some who are admitted atheists or agnostics, and others (cousins and closer relatives) who are mainly indifferent to the truth. But we want to love them to life, by the grace of God. I was once very far from God, also, but His salvation reached even me.
That's a very interesting story, about your family, especially your brother, Mike. Thank you for such a beautiful review, for the six stars and for your prayers. May God bless you bountifully with His grace!
Much love, Mary Kay xoxo

reply by Sally Law on 18-Sep-2022

Dear, you are most welcome! I'm so glad we are friends and sister in Christ. Blessings,
Sal XOs

Comment from Liz Westfall

Excellent

As someone whose spiritual journey has been a rollercoaster, I felt like this was an insightful and interesting read. I appreciate your honesty when discussing atheism and how you've read texts other than the Bible. I was wondering, though. What is the situation with other religions being "evil"?

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 Comment Written 05-Sep-2022

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reply by the author on 05-Sep-2022

Hi Liz. Thank you very much for the excellent review. I never wrote anything in my comments that said other religions were "evil." This gentleman was just asking me whether I thought so, simply because I believe my own faith to be the truth. Thank you for asking about it, because I was able to go back and edit what I wrote, to reflect that I never expressed anything of the kind.
Many people these days feel that all paths lead to God, and while I believe God may consider whether each person is faithful to what they believe, it doesn't make every person's belief system equally true. Something is either true, or it isn't. Yet one can't make the leap of claiming another person's religion is evil (unless they are satan worshipers and clearly crossing that line).
I hope and pray that your spiritual journey, from this point forward, will be fruitful and blessed by God!
Love, Mary Kay xoxo

reply by Liz Westfall on 05-Sep-2022

I'm just wondering if you're aware that Satanism isn't inherently evil. Obviously, there are outliers, as with any religion or group. Just putting it out there!

reply by the author on 05-Sep-2022

Satan (and I only capitalize his name, because it's at the beginning of a sentence) tempted Eve (and through Eve, Adam) in the Garden, which led to the Fall of man. The perfect world that God created was essentially turned upside down. Enter: death, disease, heinous crimes, freak accidents, alcoholism, child abuse, broken hearts, wasting illnesses, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, suicide, drug abuse, poverty, hunger, aging bodies, infestations, human trafficking, war, misery ... he even tempted Christ NOT to go to the cross, to supply the only remedy available for a sin-sick world: His Precious Blood. Even if SOME satan worshipers are misguided about the deep, dark evil they are bowing down to, it doesn't change the character of their leader: a fallen angelic being who was jealous of God's worship, was willing to do anything to get it for himself and who managed to get A THIRD of the other angels to follow him. Some satanists may be deluded, but he, himself, is inherently evil. Please, please keep your distance from anything like it. I say this with all the love in my heart.

reply by Liz Westfall on 05-Sep-2022

I'm not a Satanist, I just think that some aspects of it are good. They do a lot of community work, promote pro-choice, care about the environment, etc.

reply by the author on 05-Sep-2022

Dear Liz, I didn't think you were a satanist; if you were, your writing may have had a much different tone. The Bible tells us that the devil can "disguise himself as an angel of light." Why would they do that? To gain followers.
As for their participation in pro-choice activities, that doesn't surprise me at all. I don't want to get into that whole debate, but 50 MILLION unborn babies have been aborted since the passage of Roe vs Wade in 1973. That is a reliable statistic, and I am sure that the vast majority of them were not connected to rape/incest or a medically endangered mom. We've been using abortion as a method of birth control, and in many cases, the fetus is mature enough to feel the pain of the procedures being performed. That's as far as I'll go on that subject; just please remember to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Remember that in the 1940s, Hitler had an entire country brainwashed into believing that certain groups needed to be wiped out, for the GOOD of everyone else, and that if people were disabled, they weren't worth supporting and should die. He had many of the youth following after him, like the Pied Piper. The end result was the extermination of six million Jews and five million others -- and that's a conservative estimate.
The devil is a master of deceit.