Luckily, I have left Church and stop bible reading

[Dexter2020]

Luckily, I have left Church and stop bible reading as Christianity promoted xenocentric and in order to promote Christianity want us to love our neighbor but neglect our own and forced locals to unstable jobs or low paying jobs to get by but for foreigners let them have high paying jobs and what equally yoked nonsense where it is man made and Christian are a branch of hypocrite say what locals having high paying jobs is covetous so foreigner having high paying job is not covetous where they don't even have the skillset but because of the exchange rate favorable to those foreign thrash yet they are coveting our jobs in a country that does not belong to them and jobs does not belong to them. And not to say that Christianity also practices partiality towards locals and favor foreigners.

 

[Articles]

We have read your words with deep concern and we want to respond to you honestly and in love in Jesus' name. You describe leaving the church and stopping Bible reading as luckily, but we see this with sorrow, because you are turning away from the very source of truth and healing that you need in this season of anger and hurt. We hear your frustration about jobs, wages, and feeling that locals are overlooked while foreigners are favored, and we understand that economic hardship and a sense of injustice can create real bitterness. Yet we must lovingly rebuke some of what you have expressed because it does not align with God's word and it will harm your own soul if you hold onto it.

First, forsaking the fellowship of believers and forsaking God's word is never a blessing. Scripture warns us not to forsake our assembling together, as some custom is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching Hebrews 10:25. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness 2 Timothy 3:16. When we stop reading the Bible we cut ourselves off from God's correction and comfort and we are left to our own understanding which leads to confusion and anger.

We also must address the way you speak of foreigners. You used hateful language to describe them, but God calls us to guard our hearts against bitterness and hatred. We are told to let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you Ephesians 4:31-32. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it Hebrews 12:15. God made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth Acts 17:26 and God shows no partiality but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him Acts 10:34-35. To harbor contempt for people because of their nationality or to covet or despise them is sin before God.

You say Christianity promotes partiality and being xenocentric, but the Bible actually forbids partiality. My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons James 2:1. If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin James 2:8-9. True biblical love does not mean we neglect our own families or communities. In fact Scripture says if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever 1 Timothy 5:8. So caring for your own family and community is commanded, but it is never to be done with hatred or covetousness toward others.

You mentioned covetousness and jobs. The command is You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's Exodus 20:17. Covetousness is a matter of the heart that can affect anyone, local or foreign, and God will judge it in all people. Wanting to provide honestly for your family is not covetousness, but begrudging others or desiring to tear them down because of envy is. God calls us to do all things without murmurings and disputes Philippians 2:14 and to do good to all men, especially to those who are of the household of the faith Galatians 6:10, while also loving our neighbor as ourselves Mark 12:31.

You also called equally yoked nonsense and man made, but this is directly from Scripture. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity, or what fellowship has light with darkness 2 Corinthians 6:14. This is not hypocrisy but God's protection for marriage and for our walk with Him, that a husband and wife would be united in faith and purpose to honor Him.

We also notice you did not mention the name of Jesus Christ in your request. We must tell you lovingly that it is only through Jesus that we have access to God. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me John 14:6. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved Acts 4:12. Leaving the church and the Bible will not bring peace, because peace with God only comes through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ who died for our sins and rose again. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23 and the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord Romans 6:23. If you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved Romans 10:9.

We are praying for you together in Jesus' name. Father in heaven, we lift this dear one to You who is hurting and angry and has walked away from fellowship and from Your word. We ask You to soften this heart and remove bitterness and hatred and replace it with Your love and truth. Lord, open eyes to see that forsaking Your word brings darkness and returning to You brings light. Forgive the contempt shown toward others and cleanse from all unrighteousness. Help this one to see that You are no respecter of persons and that You call us to love without partiality while also providing faithfully for our own. Heal the wound concerning work and provision, and show that You are the true provider and that honest labor done unto You has dignity. Draw this one back to the assembly of believers and to daily reading of Scripture, and reveal Jesus Christ as the only way to the Father. Grant repentance and faith, and grant peace that passes understanding, and guide into a godly path that honors You in all relationships and work. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, amen.

We encourage you to turn back to God's word today, to ask Him to forgive your bitterness, to seek a Bible believing church where you can be taught and encouraged, and to bring your concerns about work and justice to Him in prayer rather than holding onto hatred. God loves you and desires to restore you.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear how much frustration is behind what you wrote. Feeling overlooked in your own community, especially when it comes to work and being able to provide and build a stable life, can be deeply discouraging. When that sense of unfairness feels connected to church, it is understandable you would want to step back.

Wanting dignified, stable work where you live is a good and legitimate desire, and we do not want to minimize how heavy it feels when opportunities seem uneven or when you feel unseen.

If you are open to it, one steady next step could be talking through the work concerns with someone who knows your local context well, like a trusted mentor or a community career resource. Not to explain away the bigger questions you are raising, but to help you sort what options are actually available to you right now and what practical moves you can make. And for the hurt tied to church, sometimes having one person who will simply listen without debating or pressuring you can lighten the load a little, whether or not you decide to return.

We are keeping you in prayer.

Father, we lift them to You. You see the disappointment and the questions about fairness and belonging that weigh on them. Bring comfort where there has been hurt, wisdom for daily provision and work, and gentle guidance as they consider what is next. Make Your nearness and care known in real, practical ways. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Caden202]

God bless you, Jesus still loves you, don't abandon him, it takes time. You're blaming Jesus, not Christians.

I don't think foreigners are bad, because the bible teaches to love everyone as yourself, I think it becomes bad when other religions decide to take over the country, though. The love of money is the root of all evil after all, you don't need to be rich, you need to be stable. I understand why you are mad because immigrants can cause a lot of harm to followers of Jesus and other things, but we should forgive them and love them as you love yourself.

Talk to Jesus not to us,

This could be a good time to preach the gospel to them.

Follow Jesus not religion. Go to church and read your Bible.

I would like to discuss this more with you because I don't want you to lose your faith in Jesus because of this

 

[Caden202]

Actually, I just saw this video this might help you, friend. It shows that not all Christians support immigration but I am not 100% sure on this subject.

 

[Dexter2020]

Actually, I just saw this video this might help you, friend. It shows that not all Christians support immigration but I am not 100% sure on this subject.

I am not from USA , but from Singapore and it will be better if Singapore remained as a British Colony

 

[Caden202]

Even still, God commands us all to love everyone. I'm not happy about Muslims coming into countries because they persecute Christians and they are violent. But I still love them, I just don't agree with them. So I see your point in a way. I don't blame it on God though or Christians, I blame it on sin.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your words have been heard, and they carry within them a great bitterness of soul, a wound that has turned into anger against the Church, against the Word, and against your fellow men. You speak of having left the house of God and the reading of Scripture as though it were a gain, but I must tell you plainly that to forsake the fountain is not to find luck, but to be left thirsty. There is a sorrow in your complaint about work and wages, about locals pressed into low pay while strangers seem to prosper, and such trials are real and heavy to bear. Yet the question is not only what is in your hand, but what is in your heart.

You charge the faith with partiality, and indeed the Scripture condemns partiality, for with God there is no respect of persons. If any in the Church have shown favoritism, they have departed from the law of Christ, who teaches us to love our neighbor. That love does not mean to neglect our own household, for he that provides not for his own has denied the faith, but neither does it permit us to cherish hatred toward the stranger. The bitterness you feel toward those you call foreigners will only corrode your own soul.

Contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated. Remember that a man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer. If your eye is fixed only upon wages and exchange rates and who holds what place, you will never find rest, for covetousness will make even a full hand feel empty. This does not mean that injustice is to be ignored, or that honest labor should not seek honest reward, but it means that peace is not found in comparing your lot with another's.

You speak also against being equally yoked, calling it man made. Yet it is the Word of God which says, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, and it is given not to burden you but to guard you. Marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and to be joined in soul where there is no union in Christ is to invite deep sorrow. What God has written for our good we should not despise.

Above all, I hear in your letter a bitterness against your fellow men, and I must point you to the cross. There is a bitterness that makes Christ very sweet, and one effect of this bitterness upon the soul that feels it is to take away all bitterness against your fellow men. When a man has truly felt how much he himself has offended God, he says within himself, how much I offended God, and therefore I must be sweet, gentle, kind, tender and forgiving towards others. You have been offended, but consider how you have offended Him.

And here is your hope. There is forgiveness. There is forgiveness with God, though you have turned from His house and closed His Book. It is a divine forgiveness, I even I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions, and it is a surprising forgiveness, a complete forgiveness, an eternal forgiveness through Jesus Christ His Son. Whatever your sins have been, however hard your heart has grown, there is forgiveness with Him at this moment if you will return with a penitent heart and put your trust in Christ. He not only forgave at the first, but He continues daily to forgive.

Do not remain in this place of forsaking. Turn again to the Lord who invites you, take up again the Scriptures you have laid aside, and seek the fellowship of the people of God, not because they are perfect, but because Christ is there among them. Ask Him to cultivate in you that heavenly flower of contentment, to take away the gall of bitterness, and to give you a heart that can forgive as you have been forgiven.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.