Saturday, November 14, 2015

That never happened


(Nov 10th, 2015)

This could be a draft or an introduction for anything I planned to write in the future about godly long-distance relationships (LDRs)

One day she pleaded with anyone she liked to cope with the inherent gaps -and distance, no one would fill in.

-After this time I have no way to tell you how I miss you. Admitted be said that we´re different but but diversity can be sorted out if there´s real love and attraction. Can´t you understand that?
-I´m sorry! I wish I knew the depth of those things no one could cope with the moment a crisis appears when being apart (or getting emotionally detached) like a ghost ship sailing on a brumous ocean. I actually don´t know if you are trying to write another book or a short love story or a new romance on your life with these things shared said but this is the way I get this: We live in different words and I can admit my own fears. My language is not your mother tongue (1). My little house is just but a hut hidden in the middle of nowhere you are in a communism third world country (2), and many things here are built with turmoiled bricks and the cement of scarcity and crime, so economically I cannot offer you anything safe with this shortage (3). I´m just living a day after another! I have known several women at my age, and I have realized all of these needed money (and the sex) they probably missed from previous relationships and I´m not any better -or worst- than any other man: I failed in giving them what they needed.
-That sounds discouraging and pathetic, man!
-That´s basically my truth, according to what I have lived: If I was left, it was because I have failed in providing what they wanted or needed. And I´m sure I am not the only one learning from anything lacked.
-I have believed in anything good I have believed: This I have felt deserves a try.
-Who is going to pay for the cost? I only have 20 dollars, and obviously it´s not enough to travel abroad.
-Can you save some money? I´m willing to pay the have of that cost.
-Thanks! That´s fair, but I need money to buy food tomorrow.
-It seems you like to play self-sabotage.
-That´s better than being kicked out. Being left out there, cannot not be covered with the shroud of a romantic mystery and marriage is nothing magical or powerful enough I can believe any longer. Do you think my belief can cope with yours?
-I´ve believed you are a Christan!
-But I believed something is really wrong in that system of beliefs. I would marry a virgin but, if I have to live with a divorce woman, I surely need to know why she was left and premarital relationships give future spouces the chance to “know” who those persons are before a wedding.
-Do you thing people are to be tried -like a car you want to buy- like a par of shoes you´ve liked to wear on?
-We are not buyable things! You know I don´t like to be tested, but life has shown those things are to be known. I´m not a virgin man, as neither are you; but you would love to be married before having sex when we never fully knew what our sexual and economic expectations really are. You want to please God, but I have seen we human are seeking to please us first.
-Aren´t you trying to please yourself sexually? Let´s say I was engaged in a sexual romance before I got married. Wasn´t I pleasing a man -or me- instead of pleasing God´s well said life standards?
-Admittedly be said premarital sex is very selfish but, since we´re not virgin people, since we were left before by those who left (it doesn´t matter they left or we left) are those religious “standards” taking me somewhere? I´m not rich, and surely I´m not the more sexual achieving man a woman knew. Are those social or religious standards bringing people to full happiness? The very clear desired an old woman had in the Biblical account (Gen. 18:12) shows me no one wants to be deprived from sex and an easy life. If I would fall short from your predictable human expectations -sexually, emotionally or economically- I have better to know it now, before I got married. I have known there´s an unquenchable long in human souls that I don´t want to risk anything more on marriage. Read it from an old woman who wished she was younger and married to a younger man: “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”.
-You are adding to what is actually written!
-Am I a fool to avoid any further inference? I wish I were younger to be sought by younger women but, being poor and old, those chances are tangibly reduced.
-Are saying I´m too old for you?
-I´m just expressing the desire of my soul, and I won´t bet a dollar on the things another person would like to buy with a cheaper coin. In Cana (John Ch. 2) a man wanted a full open house party to celebrate his marriage and, if the Lord Jesus wasn´t present as a invitee, no one would know what kind of things that man lacked just the moment they celebrated a party. How do I know I would lack wine or anything in my bed? Each time I wholeheartedly loved, I tried to have Jesus as guest and leader. I married once, and it was wrong from the beginning. How do I know my bed -or house- would lack the wine of joy? I married to have legal sex and, deep inside of me, I was enticed with another woman who chose to leave (now I´m happy she left).
-How could you have Jesus Christ -as guest- leading your life by practicing premarital sex? It´s inferable you were sadly hurt with those fears I see, but Jesus is clear with His commands. If you were legally married, if you invited God to merge your marriage, Jesus said: “What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matt. 19:6)
-That´s it! My point is that I knew what I loved. I knew I would have wanted another woman to marry me, that time. If God really desired us to be “one”, I expected something powerful or strong enough to having changed us (or me) to be one; but we never were one so, after 13 years, we finally got divorced. And I don´t think I married to be divorced, but to be one.
-Yes! No one marries to be divorced.
-And I don´t remember she or I were one, as I thought it would be if I invited God to be present that day in the ceremony. Yet I can confess I felt sexually incomplete, and I don´t know if she felt sexually or emotionally lacking the wine of joy. That´s possible! But we never were one. I cannot blame another person, but me. I married a person loving another woman who went away… Can´t you see something wrong on a system of beliefs? I invited God to be present on my wedding party. I´m not sure if I kicked Him out more than a dozen times, when I thought I would be one with the woman who chose to marry me knowing I loved another. But I believed we could be one, and she and I probably were absolutely wrong thinking would unite two different types of peoples, even with different beliefs in those creeds (since she was pentecostal, and I don´t). Does God join people to be one in marriage? I don´t know! But I have seen too many people getting divorced, that it is my actual belief marriage serves for nothing, and it doesn´t matter they also had invited God to be their guest. Another wrong thing I see as selfish: Would I invite God any place to use Him as a shield? God is not a “thing” I can use to get disposed like condoms.
-I don´t know what to say.
-Neither me! But it seemed to me I´m being lied somewhere. What way I have to know God chose me -or another person- to be united in marriage? It seems that life has shown each people they have their own needs unsatisfied and, by time, they felt some desired were longly denied either way: Just by trying to please God, their spouses, society, or whatever thing they ignored it was. No wonder Jesus Disciples once said: “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” (Matt 10:19)
-Perhaps that was the reason Jesus said “Not everyone can receive it”.
-I don´t know if He really said that! What about the sexual and economic long everyone has? I don´t know if I would please you neither if you would be pleasing me but, if I had to get marry to know what your sexual appetite is, or what your economic expectations are during marriage, such mistake or bias could be the cause many children are left along with spouses, since no one knew if they would be pleasing enough during married life.
-God´s commands are clear!
-But it´s clear that -operatively- marriage is disfunctional. I never married to give children any society. I loved (and I married) thinking God would make the miracle of making two individuals one; but it seems I had to do that miracle, by myself. I spent more than 20 years groping for the key to get that joy of marital oneness. Now I´m willing to die any day He plans my passing away.
-You´re a nut! You´re smart and you´re not too old to giving up that way. What´s wrong with you? That you´re unwilling to fight for anything you liked or wanted.
-The book you venere as godly also gives those clues you can´t see. Hosea married Gomer, and I´m not sure how she was engaged on sexual affairs several times before that “wedding” contract (Hos. 1:2). Ezekiel, a better holy man, was married to one woman he liked and, one day, God warned him she would die soon and, being impolitely informed, He wanted Ezekiel showed no tears for the joy he would miss (Ezek. 24:16) What type of fight this life deserves? The miracle of loving suddenly disappears, any day.
-Such is life!
-If life is so, why that “teaching” of getting married? It assures nothing, but hidden problems if one person lacks what the other needs.
-I don´t know! The only thing I believed it is that marriage is a command before sex.
-And, after divorce, all we came to be adulterers and, if we had sex out of marriage, we thought we were fornicators but -according to the Bible- those who had sex after being divorced, actually became adulterers, and not simple fornicators (Matt 19:9; Luk 16:18).
-That´s not a big deal! Both are sins.
-And which is easier or cheaper to leave abandoned? A convinced fornicator takes virgins and widows, but an unknown “adulterer” could still be missing a better love to bring home.
-Who knows it?
-Those who risked in premarital sex, I guess.
-That´s sinful!
-Same way as having born with human desires, and sexual drives.

to be continued!

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Experiencia Vivencial



  • Hablan de FE (a). 
  • Hablan de OBEDIENCIA (b). 


Estoy en el punto coyuntural de oponerme a cualquier forma de pensamiento político o religioso que me hable de SALVACIÓN y OBEDIENCIA.

Según yo (Antonio Toro) LA FE es EXPERIENCIAS VIVENCIALES recíprocas y bidireccionales (de arriba a abajo / de abajo a arriba). 

Si alguien, cualquiera me suena a la gente del Sanedrín judío o católico, me encrispo como un gato pues, si Dios NO se autorevela -por sí mismo- como lo "hizo" en otros tiempos, la Cristiandad tiene una fe de segunda mano y, tras más de 4.000 años repitiendo el mismo cuento (por centenares de "enviados espirituales"), ese asunto ya NO me interesa.

a) Si la FE o la "salvación" no son un aspecto palpable de la eternidad vivencial con DIOS, en la tierra.
b) Si ambas cosas no comienzan desde aquí -en el now y ahora- no tienen importancia para mí.

 La gente, la iglesia, la veo y la tengo todo el tiempo en la calle, a cada rato. 

En cuanto al "Sí" o al "No" de la "Salvación": a) Si no es relacional. b) Si no es experimentalmente tangible y vivencial, no me importan esas cosas en nada; como tampoco me interesa ir a iglesia alguna "a darme golpes de pecho" (como tampoco me gusta que me caigan a trompadas con sus trillados sermones).

Tengo más de 20 años leyendo, lo que tú -apenas- te grabas y repites.

                                                                                                                       A.T

Sunday, October 18, 2015

RECONCILIACIONES.


Por A.Toro

¿Volverías con alguien quien te fue infiel sin que se re-formulen compromisos?
¿Volverías a estrecharle, a amarle con nuevos votos de amor, sin corregir errores, sin esas disculpas debidas?

 No sé qué haya sido tu vida pero, en cuanto a reconciliaciones se trata, cada persona las conoce desde niños. Si nunca tuviste esa experiencia, de algún modo, te informaste de otras bocas (por otras situaciones). 

Si nunca te peleaste con tus amig@s, quizá supiste de personas que se dejaron, que se abandonaron e, incluso, se hirieron mucho.

Ignoro si padeciste un divorcio, o el término abrupto de alguna relación pero, ¿volverías simplemente perdonando (pero "olvidando" las causas originadoras del quebrantamiento y el abismo del hueco en la distancia)?

El movimiento ecuménico es la re-unificación de "la iglesia" con la dirigencia Católica Romana.
Es una reconciliación donde -el que vuelve- es quien termina anexándose sin pedir nada a cambio, excepto ser acepto y ser recibido... (¿Con el anillo del hijo pródigo?).

 Una reconciliación -a mi entender- amerita reconsiderar qué nos alejo, en lugar de añorar cosas que nos unirían. 

En una relación humana, volver entrañaría una revisión honesta de las cosas que dieron un fallo reprobable, una falta insostenible, para que -mutuamente- se construya una enmienda amurallada que nos proteja, en una unifidad que no vuelva a descoyuntarse. 

 Volver a empezar significa tomarse de las manos, admitiendo cualquier diferencia que haya creado crisis y, con motivo a la sucesión de ellas, resolvimos en rupturas.

 En la reconciliación ecuménica, la Iglesia Católica Romana es quien recibe (y hospeda) a los que se marcharon, y ella no se muestra como la organización quien da un paso adelante admitiendo: «Me equivoqué con la Inquisición», «Juzgué mal al considerar a los papas infalibles», «Mentí al decir que Pedro fue enterrado en Roma, y todo lo que promoví fue para consolidar mi imperio y mi control religioso mundial».



 Yo no volvería con una mujer que adora ídolos. Yo no tendría cópula con una extraña que invoque espíritus ajenos. Yo no dormiría con alguien quien haga culto a sus imágenes, ni me postraría en un lecho marital sin la debida exclusividad sexual que sólo quien ame da.

He oído, no lo sé, que Coptos y los Episcopales han «vuelto»... ¿No estuvieron en el mismo lugar hace siglos?

 Cada vez que me llamen sectario, puedo recordar que -Jesús mismo- fue visto de esa forma por los judíos divididos en Fariseos y Saduceos. 

Dicho en pocas palabras, sin abusar de la retórica: Los que vuelvan (si es que vuelven) se someten a lo Católico (y no a sus propias convicciones religiosas o vivencias espirituales). Si estos seres se reúnen -ecuménicamente- con la iglesia Católica por "ser la iglesia madre", lo consideraré el destino de su convicción de fe voluntaria. 

Similarmente -y como contra parte- ell@s deberían respetar la decisión voluntaria de quienes se alejen de Catolicismo y del imperio de su «religión» mundial pero; aunque el mismo judaísmo se integrase a la CRISTIANDAD (y se con-fundiese) dentro del sincretismo idolátrico de Roma, yo conservaré mi lugar: Las Iglesias ni sus credos salvan.

A.T.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

We´re living in sins!

(A tricky "monologue"?)

Certain day, a casual talk between friends became a religious unresolved issue no one knew…  

-Next time, when someone tells me “I love you” (if she is old enough) I will be compelled to ask her discretely, if that said really would mean sexual exclusivity; otherwise, I have no way to know if that was mere emotional rhetoric.
-I have heard that some believers believed that having sex with an unmarried woman (who is not actually a virgin) is not a real sin...
-The sinful relationship is when we´re: 
  • Having sex with no real love, without the inherent responsibility
  • Dishonoring GOD´s commands and
  • Dishonoring the person WHO ACTUALLY could have fallen in love with you.
       I wish I could have told her those things better, but I failed.


-That sin is not "loving" their souls or bodies. The spiritual sin is “sex” with lust. “Love” being done without love -purposely and repeatedly- bypassing what TRUE LOVE is. Sex must be committed to one partner and, it´s known the way it shouldn´t be done. (Deut. 22:25-29)
-Ah! - That´s just another theory.  He! He! :P
- “Spiritual” lies are also common sins inside many religions, and these are worst than uncommitted or occasional sex. Just because lies are frequent -they tend to be recurrent- Am I stubbornly blinded to see those things well?
-I would have liked more you´ve told me which sins are not sins. He! He!
-Look at what I already said above, first.
-I will grab some of items of that theory and, later on I will do what I want.
-Let´s say WE have GOTTEN MARRIED to have sex, legally... Was it an act of LOVE, or a convenient legal arrangement to lay down in bed?
-Unfortunately, that is part of the marital agreements.
-Jesus saw a Samaritan woman who had had five (5) men and NONE was her “legal” husband... What was Jesus´ real concern with her, promiscuity or keeping the law?
-He didn´t approve that type of relationship.
-So, Did He invited HER to be married?
-Yes!
-Since you´ve believed it in that way: (1) Would you marry a man who lives another place you are not? (2) Would you marry a man you are not sure if "HE" would give you whatever thing YOU need, evenly on the bed and inside a new home?
-Probably not.

         Can this be denied or conceiled for too long?

- (1) Once a woman is NOT virgin, she is more aware of her sexual needs (2) Once a woman has indulged -herself- in masturbating with toys (BIG toys) her sexual needs are quite different than an innocent virgin who, probably, had ignored those needs that she never explored willingly until marriage.
- Is it adultery a sin? It is! And if Jesus came here while we are "playing" with it, we could be sent directly the hell.
-Are you aware of those two points (“1” and “2”) that believers have tried to ignore "by following the Bible"? Of course, adultery is a sin (like coveting) but Jesus never belittled (by using any discriminative adjective) that Samaritan woman He met. Was she an ADULTERER? No, she wasn´t! She was a fornicator, simply... However, emotional adultery is a big sin hidden inside people´s minds and, it has caused many couples had experimented sex outside their own beds. Because OUR minds can lie to our bodies, and to our core human needs.
-And what´s the point?
-That Samaritan woman had had 5 men, at that time. Did she?
-I don´t know! I was not there.
-Are you saying Jesus lied?
-He never lied!... She said she had had five men.
-It wasn´t the Samaritan woman who told that! It was Jesus... He foretold that before she opened her mouth but, what was it that Jesus wanted her (and me) to know (and do) before being indulged in sex?
-I don´t know, you tell me.
-Joh 4:16  Jesus told her, "Go and bring your husband." Then, it goes: Joh 4:17 The woman answered, "I don't have a husband." "That's right," Jesus replied, "You're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband."
-That is not an acute translation! It doesn´t say "husbands" neither "married"... but men.
-Perhaps! (And I´m glad you saw it and know it) But whenever I read "husbands" I read (instead of that) "men"; not those supposed "husbands" they said euphemistically... If she was actually "married", Jesus would have invited HER to come back to her 1st HUSBAND (and, according to our religious mindsets, she would have been called a Samaritan "adulterer", instead).
-Ok! I´m listening.
-Since you are so fond of the Torah… Would you ask me to go back to my Ex wife, friend?
-I would, probably.
-Really? Look at what your "Jewish" friend here thinks. The Torah says: "Deut. 24:4 …her first husband who married her and divorced her earlier must not remarry her, because she was defiled, since this is detestable to the LORD. Don't defile the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a possession. " I know nothing about her spiritual defilement but, I know anything about the emotional cost, the price to forgive a spouse sleeping with several men.
-Okey! I got it.
-Whatever is UNDONE should be undone. That Samaritan woman has NEVER been married. She wasn´t an adulterer, but a fornicator and many people are using that lesson to lead hurt believers to go back with those who have been divorced (and utterly defiled) just by laying down in another´s bed (it doesn´t matter they were a woman or man).
-I must reread the Torah, many times, while I am alive.
-Good! And I know that some hypocritical RELIGIOUS modifications were added to the “original” Gospel (and surely those religious euphemisms saying “husbands”; instead of “lovers” or “bedroom mates”). Don´t you think it so? Whenever you read Hebrews (13:4), inside one of those Paul´s celebrated letters, He said “bed” (κοιτη) to mean “sex”. Does a “bed” sins? Or sex is simply done on a couch and not in the minds of those who lust coveting sexually? These writers have used the Greek root of the known word for “coitus”, and there in Hebrews, it was used as "bed"; when Greeks surely understood it meant human "sex". I cannot deal -or believe- in those letters they´ve valued as “acute, inerrant and totally inspired” when I see something incorrect...  Oooopss! That´s why I will not follow a church, nor any of their church leaders. I dislike hypocrisy and those religious euphemisms. 
-I must follow the Torah!
-Just remember what Lot´s wife did... Don´t look back at whom you left. I have chosen to follow Jesus, particularly, each time I grasped what He probably said; because I´m not sure if He -ultimately- taught Israel like this: “Mat 28:19  Go to the people of all nations and make them my disciples. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”… Why, in the Old Testament, God showed Himself as being One and, later on, when Jesus came down, He looks as He had said: God is “triune” or “We are three in One”.
-He is God! That way He said.
-I´m not sure Jesus is God, but a divine being God sent to live in a human body to accomplish His will and purposes here. But I respect whatever thing you´ve believed… I used to believe that Trinitarian way too but, if I´ve believed the teachings of the Old Testament, I needed to checked them with what The N.T. also said and, as long as Jesus was with those 12 men He chose, He never asked them to do that: “...in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”. This is one of the an add-ons the RCC placed to trade with its syncretisms. 
-Are you sure you still being a Christian? -She said so, without the proper intonation of a doubt.
-No! He never said I´m God, the Father... As many believers think He said. I´m being re-assured that I´m not a RCC´s follower. I'm against any creepy Catholic syncretism, though.
-Hmm! If you believed that, that way, you probably will be cast into hell.
-And why am I here? He asked. Why haven´t I been sent “there” each time I sinned by killing, stealing or lying to my neighbors? Why haven´t I been sent when I cheated on my ex-wife or with any of my teachers in the school? Did He want me to repent from “luring away” people by telling them what I thought or what I´m thinking? If I´m sinning for human lack of knowledge, has He missed what human kind thought several centuries before I was born? I´m not the only one longing for wisdom, particularly when cheap gospel sell the idea God needs me to be worshiped: He lacks nothing, while I have lacked everything about Him and me. How could I love an unknown person -an alien- without knowing who He is or what His needs are (regarding me) as a servant or as a living soul? I wish He was more close and personal.
-You´re asking too many things at the same time -She said. You don´t deserve that answer.
-That´s right! But if I tried to love a distant person in nowhere I know, if she whispered the same thing you´ve said without any doubt of reluctance: “You don´t deserve this nor that from me...” I would be assured she deserves nothing from a partner, not my attentions as a potential friend, just at least from me. Who am I to say: “You don´t deserve this nor that”. If I said that, no doubt it will show how selfish I am and, as far as I have read the Gospels, it says God wants to be worshiped, more than being obeyed or believed; as if that was His weakest side, the thing lacking in His strength (or inside His “humanized” needs). Am I being lied by what Jesus probably spoke? (...God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship Him according to the truth.) Jesus asked water to a woman. He naturally has needs but, He could have gotten Himself a glass of water, if He wanted (by doing a miracle) but this time He needed a servant… Can you tell me why? He already said: “...When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
-Where is it that in the Scripture?
-In John 4:24-25 -He replied-. I´m sure God is a Spiritual Being but, the flaw the RCC largely taught about that He needed to be worshiped... I don´t believed it. He has not that need and, if it was so, He is not showing up to get it, neither to tell me: I need you! (the way I need Him)
-Why don´t you believe that? Most of Christian believers worshiped Jesus, Won´t you worship Him, too?
-Good questions! Allow me to tell you that, if I wanted to be known or loved by those I liked, I would be in the predicament -or in the need- to let them know who I am, where I am or what I´m doing here. If I wanted to be heard, if I needed to be hugged or obeyed, I would have done something more than leaving some letters to be read (and dogmatically believed) BY FAITH. If I was online, thinking about those things my potential partner needed to know me, physically, I would have sent them some pictures, some articles written by me but, if I really needed to be known, as I am (Yes! As I AM) I would be in the dilemma to give her a phone call, to appear somewhere by giving the slightest token of kindness I could to show a friendly display… And, if she sees I am selfish, if she sees I´m reluctant to show up, unwilling to spend some time with her: Another person would come to give her fill! 
-That´s another thing! Your are comparing God with your own ways to behave. I think you are wrong.
-Yes! I´m wrong. Each time I needed to be in a relationship I needed to interact with people. If I ever wanted friends, I needed to show I was THEIR friend, being close to them and, whenever I wasn´t present, I gave them a phone call, at least. Just to show anything more than an icy old-fashioned letter and, if distance and time never met, that friendship would get cold (void and empty). This is what I feel each time I read: “Rom 6:23  Sin pays off with death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord.” What kind of eternity I want if this huge distance already exists between Him and me, now? I don´t want to be loved by God, but just by the person I dreamed my whole life, and I never met her alive (perhaps in my dreams) and, if God really needs me “to be worshiped” (as Jesus said to the Samaritan Woman He met) He surely would have done anything of what I have done: a) Approaching to those I have liked, physically. b) Each time I had the hunch I had found the woman I liked (or a person I could be liked) I did the best I could to be sure I had found the exact person I thought I needed to love. I never wanted a fan! (Except those days of “hot” seasons). Ha! Ha! Ha!
-YOU cannot compare your feelings -and those emotions- with God´s!
-Why not? Doesn´t the Scripture says “men were created in His image and likeness”? (Gen 1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...) No doubt I need no one to worship me but I´m sure I always wanted a woman who would please me in everything I thought I am.
-It seems you “know” the Bible, but you don´t understand it well.
-Sure! I don´t understand it. That´s why I agreed with you when you said I was wronged.
-Listen! ”Image and likeness” there, that moment and instance, is connected to dominion and spirituality; but not that we´ve been made like God´s feelings or His physical appearance.
-I don´t know God´s creative scope nor His limitations when making men´s hearts but, as far as I see, in that verse of Genesis, He seemed to talk to another “beings” (or, perhaps, He was thinking to Himself) but, what concerns me -here- it is He had a dream: He had His project achieved and, as a Creator, He gave His “image” His feelings. He showed what his feelings were -that moment there-  by blessing Adam with something he “earthly” lacked, as long as he was modeled out from mud but, when God gave him His breath -His spirit- that piece of “soil” got a new-brand shape, to breathe with his own Human Soul. I think we reflect the nature of our Creator (or creators), one way or another. Although, I don´t believe we´re Body, Soul and Spirit. I´ve believed I was lied, because I´m sure I am a Spirit dwelling in a body. I´m a living soul and that soul is my very spirit of life, but I´m aware you´re not dualist, like me. Can we cope with being doctrinally different? I don´t need people´s approval and, when needing answers, I wish God gave me His exact answers, not more men´s theories (like all of these, that I have already shared with you, here).
-You are out of your mind! His faith is well founded.
-I won´t contradict you, though. Some people might call it holy “faith”. Don´t you think God is something bigger than aliens? I was used to say that I wasn´t afraid to affirm that people have made the Bible something bigger than the One who inspired men to write it down.
-Hmm! If you were not my friend, I´d think this talk had finished several minutes ago.
-That´s your right! And it is my privilege to talk alone but, let´s ponder these few Biblical facts: a) Adam was made with earthly “mud” (elements of the ground). b) God (and the agents He got involved) were not humans; unless His image and likeness were cloned elsewhere, somehow, as I think it is in us. c) Angels kept on visiting human race on earth, evenly God left (or set us apart) far away from that unknown or lost “Paradise”. 
-Stop it! You are out of your mind.
-Am I? You have “Faith”, but I´m a nut reading what the Bible says… Have you read that God´s children kept on visiting humans (to marry their women)? That´s on Gen. 6:2. Each time I heard preachers talking about this THEY explained “Angels cannot marry women… Just because they are spiritual beings” but, is that Biblical record mistranslated, as also happened to a defiled “bed”? Coitus is the exact word for marital sex, and Genesis 6:2 also talks about “intergalactic” or “multidimensional” sex.
-You are crazy! God's sons were men, not angels.
-Sure! I'm crazy. God came down here with His sons and, before men were created, angels were first in His creation... Did God asked a sword to guard His tree of life, without a serving angel?... I have believed I needed to ignored those things they said I should… If I needed to “know” what an angel is, I can compare what the Scripture taught and, here few “concepts” are (in case you needed, to read another day): “Gen 6:4  The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.” Will you mind telling this crazy man, they had no sex to get children? If that wasn´t “intergalactic” or “multidimensional” sex, or something wicked and evil in their union, why God grieved and regretted before He destroyed the earth with water? I can bet one dollar that, when a bunch of demons (a Legion) asked Jesus permission to enter into the body of pigs, they never imagined Jesus would get rid of two problems, by throwing one single stone away.
-Job had mentioned, several times, God´s children in Job 1:6, 2:1 or at 38:7. 
-Oh! Thanks, dear friend! You have read it (and there´s more about them).
-Wait! Before you keep on talking about aliens, tell me more about that stone thrown by Jesus. 
-Wow! I´m glad you heard it. Jesus visited a Goyim area near Kersha (It wasn't the exact Gadara). There was a demon possessed man there and after that “Legion” left him “flying”, 2.000 pigs were drowned into the sea lake: Waters! Same way God got rid of Nephilims, and wicked ones, in ancient days. Don´t tell me it is a figure that “means baptism alone”... It also means Jesus permitted that huge herd of pigs were finally got rid of, with those evil spirits inside. That part of the Gospel reminds me those days of Noah, where sinners died drown out with “spiritual” beings having had sexual intercourse with men´s daughters.  It´s known that Jews were not allowed to consume unclean food like pigs but, Goyim people in that area got them to feed Romans and their homes.
            Antonio needed to know if he was lied. It's easy to talk to words when they are left on a screen on a wall, mute and unnoticed.

-What I dislike from this Biblical account is its several contradictions. Matthew says they were two men demon possessed (Mat 8:28, 33) while Mark and Luke said it was one (Mk 5:18; Lk 8:35). So, to my dull understanding, I can infer: a) Two or three different men saw (and wrote) that “biblical” incident differently. b) Only one of them could have been an eyewitness, while the other “author” (or written sources) could have been a hired writer making an imperfect copy, a simple odd version. 

If you want to make a transcendent story, if you want to write down real facts and a sharp history, you would do the best to make things clear. How do I know that truth? Can I get it by comparing complementary sources? (Here is my sigh)

-It hurts me when I see “a little” mistake like that. If God had actually inspired those writers -literally- such faults shouldn´t be evident there, particularly when I expected an acute account from actual eyewitnesses.  But, I´m sure THEY worked separately, out of common agreement, in different times/places and not certified by an organized “writer” association. Each time I have compared both accounts -if those were “originals” enough- I could see they´re well harmonized, except for two or one single man who “missed” the information which another writer saw (or that happened when one man unnoticedly ignored it when delivering the final version he wrote).
-Where is faith, if that was correctly done?
-You, as a lawyer or judge, need proofs -verifiable evidences- to deliver a long lasting verdict and, those who have inherited Christianity from a second-hand source always have been in the need of something bigger than “It is written...”. Beside that, the O.T. always asked two witnesses to judge things well, as it happens when you read Chronicles and Kings, in the O.T.

It is said God didn't create a single man and his woman. It is said there was a parallel “creation” where there were more men and women... If that was so, some men were created by God and, those men who lacked their mates (Children of God) would have found their companionship in that paralleled human hood we know nothing about, except by speculations about Gen 6:2 

-Jesus said that, those who had faith without seeing Him will be specially blessed. (John 20:29  (...) The people who have faith in me without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!" )
-Of course! Thomas needed something bigger than a thing called “faith”. A reasonable doubt is a need, sometimes. Particularly when you would play a role in a court, when a man's life is under a trial.
-Sure! But human life is not a tribunal and stubborn minds need exactitude. 
-God wants to be loved with all men's might. He wants to be loved with our souls, strengths, volitional mental faculties and human minds... Did He also said this: “Mat 13:16  But God has blessed you, because your eyes can see and your ears can hear! ” As long as I have these organs functioning, as a man chained to this human body seeking the true to judge some “evidences”, I won´t trust anymore in lying men, such as Jeremiah once said (Jer 17:5, 7). No one is like God and, my whole life I lied and was lied. I´m tired of secondhand spiritual experiences. If God is personal being and real, like a Father, I long to meet Him personally. I want to see He is real like those UFO I saw -when I was praying- side by side with Mónica, several years now.
-What? Do you believe in UFOs and things like those?
-God is not an earthly human being. Jesus neither His serving angels were... Don´t you believe in them, like “angels” God has sent? I won´t quote Jeremiah´s vision but, if you don´t mind I shared what I already said -at least- have a look on Matthew. How many stars have you seen pointing out people´s ways and places? (Matt. 2:9 (...) And the star they had seen in the east went on ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.) How many of those STARS have you seen stopped above your head or certain places?
-Ha! Ha! I´m not saying you are crazy... Ha! Ha! It is you, alone, who said it.
-You´ve believed in X-mas, when you were a child. You´ve seen the star your parents placed on the top of those X-mas trees they brought home for you and, you never knew it represented the “star” (the UFO) those wise men saw, before they met the actual place where Jesus was born... It wasn´t a comet, but good! You´re smart while I´m dull.
-How do you know it was an UFO?
-How do you know it wasn´t? If that report is acute enough, you´ll know the Maggi never saw a star, but an Ovni. Herod asked his workers about it, and that sign was seen (and followed) from the West, not from the East. When Elijah was taken by a chariot of fire, they were not horses, but an UFO (2 Kings 2:11 (...) Suddenly, some horses and a chariot came and separated Elijah from Elisha. The horses and the chariot were like fire. Then Elijah was carried up into heaven in a whirlwind.) Is that portion of the Bible lying with a rhetoric figure of speech? 
-I wasn´t there! -She said jokingly- I don't know it for sure.
-Yep! And those who believed it, without seeing it, are also blessed with that truth other people have seen, privately or publicly. Do you also disbelieve the Apostles saw Jesus being served by angels, coming up and down? (John 1:51) Whenever Jesus comes back, He won´t be down here in “a cloud”, but in an UFO; the way He was taken up by angels (Luke 21:27; Acts 1:11)
-No doubt you have celebrated the “Annunciation” more than me. Ha! Ha! Since Luke 2:15 talked about angels.
-The sad thing of man-made “traditions” is that conventional picture showing those “facts” occurring the same X-mas night; when it happened at different intervals of time. 
-Hmm! I don´t mind you would elaborate something more about that theory.
-Angels appeared first than the Maggi visiting Herod home. If you compared the Gospel account, you might feel the hunch I felt when the UFO disappeared the moment “the Maggi” visited Herod´s palace to get “additional” protocolar information from astrologers. They followed the sign by night but, getting nearer the wrong place (Herod´s wise men) the “star” disappeared, so they had nothing to prove -as real- against the Lord´s life. It was an important moment in Heaven and at Jesus´ earthly life: Jesus was recently borne incarnated, and He needed to be understood, more than being known (as it was a biblical setup, just for us).  
-I´m afraid I´m falling asleep.
-Before your bedtime arrives, allow me to remind you that those who believed there´s no need to marry a divorced woman to have sex (as you mentioned “their” theory of no sin) I can recall a man who, after receiving money for a deal of his trade, he paid a “prostitute” to be sexually pleased.
-That´s sin! And I know what a sin is.
-Of course you do! We all are sinners, even emotionally… But one day certain man needed physical release (since he was has no wife) and -since he lacked credit card- he wanted to lay down without paying in cash.
-What? I think you´re kidding. Ha! Ha!
-He told her something like this: “...Permit me to join with you...”. She asked: “What will you give to me, to enjoy me...” and, if this is properly recalled, he said he left his wallet… and willing TO PAY, he promised a young sheep (Gen 38:17)
-Ha! Ha! I never read that… But keep it on, Antonio.
-That woman was not a fool (she regretted the idea of being fooled) so she asked: “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it to me?” 
-Hmm! I´m not afraid to say there was mutual consent of adults. Both were trading sexually, without any further commitment than a future payment.
-And don´t tell me that, those days, there was no law to keep on: “Your “Yes”  be ”Yes” and your “No” be “No”, because love is love and sex is sex.
-She asked for a warranty! She didn´t want to be fooled.
-And Judah needed sexual release, since he lost his wife (and have no credit card). 
-She responded, "Give me your ring and bracelet, and the staff that you hold in your hand." (Gen. 38:18)
-More than a promissory note, more than a check and a token of “love”, she wanted safety and a pledge to be sexually available that moment. Is it too old fashioned? Who would take care of children, society or women alone? 
-That´s a personal choice affecting society -she said, as a judge- It belongs to parents to take care of their children.
-But society, as a bulk, plays like the victim whenever I denied each homeless children their dued parental care. 
-What´s your point, Antonio?
-Do I have to take care for another man´s kids? If I´m engaged, if I fell in love with a woman, am I obliged to take care of her whole house and previous children?
-You have your own answers! I don´t know what you would do.
-Of course! If I had the chance to fall in love with a virgin, if I knew she would be faithful enough -to me- I would marry willingly but, if I needed a woman sexually, if she needed me to feed her children, that´s not a loving relationship, but an agreement of sexual consent with mutual benefits. Love cannot be traded with money or anything convenient. True love is not seeking things selfishly.
-But we all need things to raise a family. A woman needs a caring man!
-Men need loyal women who sexually belong to one single man. I cannot say all women belong to one single man, but I´m assured the last one I loved wanted me to take care of her 3 children and; when she also wanted me to seek for her children´s approval, I had to tell her she was all wronged; because my deepest concern was being approved by her love solely and, if I fell short from being sexually or economically (not being big enough to satisfy her expectations or human needs) I would understand I lacked what she needed but, after witnessing she kept on having some flirts with other men, I knew she had lived like those who always sought their BBD. If she had found another man she liked, as soon as she could, I would be kicked out in the back. So that marriage she asked me was to receive a brand-new golden ring, not a pledge of my love and that would have given me no real right of sexual exclusivity, since I knew she still behaved like a prostitute, trading things and paying with sex.
-That´s not fair! If you´ve loved her, you wouldn´t say that, against her.
-She told me she prostituted once, and I loved her knowing that part of her past life but, since I observed things closely, I knew I couldn´t please her well. She still missed a man who was more achieving -sexually- than me (she told me his name). I knew she still missed another cheating man she loved (by economic reasons) who served her to buy shoes, clothing, food and medicines I could not afford to give the moment she needed them. Her daughter loved that man as much as she could and, the reasons seem to be economically and emotionally. Randy gave her good sex but, the other man, gave her the money she longed and, before she knew the provider was a cheater, she loved him for being a dad to her 3 children she brought along... She got divorced from a military man (who also cheated on her) and, when she needed help to raise “alone” her 3 kids, she met that Arabic man she finally loved… She got so hurt (and broken hearted) the moment she knew he was another cheater in her life; but she needed him to keep on receiving money. He was a good provider! She regretted having known she had no sexual exclusive right (that man had lovers) and, whenever she knew she lacked sex, she “lived” with Randy, but this man was lazy to provide her economically.
-Hey! You´re telling me her PRIVATE life. That´s out of my concern… I will not tell you anything secret in the nearer future. 
-Of course! That´s why we´re being lied. I don´t care what people did but, if I´m engaged in a love relationship, I do care what they do. What if I got AIDS? What is she likes to have more than one man in her bed the moment I´m gone? What if I´m not pleasing her sexually? But I was thought to be used economically, or at any other odd convenience.
-I already told you that matchmaking needs some particular  agreements.
-That´s right! But I wanted real sexual exclusivity, if I found a lover. I don´t want to lick a cunt another man had ejaculated. I don´t want to love a woman who still longs for another men´s wallet or dick. I don´t want to be wronged twice! I have a heart which has been torn severely and, I know the picking up of those broken pieces takes time; either it belonged to a woman or a man.
-What? Have you given your “heart” to men? -She looked puzzled, this time.
-No! I just meant my heart worths the same joy a woman´s deserves. If they have felt hurt, men also felt hurt. As long as I lived, my whole life I have given my heart twice. It was hurt severely and, after picking up my broken pieces, I´m aware love hurts but, if I knew who was the best woman I should have loved, I surely would too; but life has shown me there´s nothing sure. If God really wanted men (or women) to be married, He´s not doing a job of matchmaker. If He really wanted humankind married twice (after they´ve learned several painstaking love lessons) He should be leading people to meet His best options and -perhaps- divorced ones (those having children). But these are not the best choice to pick from: Virgins were the best!
-Why are you saying that discriminative argument to me?
-Two people, sometimes, are hard to make a simple agreement (Amos 3:3). Just imagine you had to deal with somebody´s else kids. Think you need their approval to love a man you think you needed… The moment you feel a man demands you to cope with people (his children) those you don´t like spontaneously, you would feel “He is bossy”, “He´s controlling” and love is free. That love sets you free willingly, not by an obliging force.
-You surely regret her accommodative attitude. Did she ask you to wear something in fashion?
-Do religious “leaders” ask people to follow up what God said? Or what it seemed more convenient to bless their daughters and mothers?
-You would tell me even if I don´t like it… Don´t you?
-But I don´t know it! I wish I knew God personally. If I meet Him, I can repent of those sins I willingly did but, as far a I knew what love is, I always chose the wrong woman, like Samson did. 
-Your theory is “Promiscuity is better” than being married?
-My theory is God never told me who I should have loved endlessly. Samson married goyim people outside his beliefs and race but, Moses married an African woman and, the Sephora he chose never cheated on him. Did she?
-Hmm! I see you´ve been hurt.
-What was the reason that Samaritan woman had had to having 5 men? She had sexual intercourse with previous 4 men and, that day He appeared to tell her “You haven´t lied...” (Jn 4:17) He probably gave her the clue she needed to quench her life thirst. Both men and women, wished they knew who they should have married. Once a person has lost their virginity, each explores that sexual area developing “habits” or “longs” no ones knows and, the moment they have laid together in bed, the moment they´ve lived like “married” couples, they have started to know how their lives could be complementary (or not). If I have given´t my last lover anything she needed -I don´t know- I would have remained with her but, her children were a pain in the leg. If I could have pleased her sexually (and economically) I would have married her to satisfy that “social” expectation but, since she wasn´t alone, I remained alone. 
-Wow! Are you castrated?
-No! But I´m not the same man I was when I was 32 years old. I never told her my turn off was the upsetting presence of her children watching me (to get their blessing), the recurrent need she has I was approved by her two sons, and by her demanding daughter. None of them was economically independent from their mother! They needed a provider, not a man with a parental role or figure. Can I say my children also needed a provider more than a dad? I´m not an achiever, either it was economically or as a love partner. I don't know how to buy that love.
-Wow, Antonio! Are you telling me that? Aren't you ashamed?
-Sure I'm not!  The moment I felt pushed to do things I don´t want to do spontaneously, I leave them emotionally. I liked -and loved- that woman but, when I realized she wanted me to be of her personal use (another convenience she's got); when she asked me to buy her a bed another man could use any moment I was outside, I knew I chose wrongly. I´m glad I learned it soon and, if she was alone outside, she wouldn´t have an impediment to do other things she wanted: Although -at home- her children were a light deterrent to do more things wrong.
-I don´t agree with you! -she said, upset- I won´t listen to you, anymore.
-Okey! I forced no one to be heard and listened and, I´m not sorry for having confessed what I thought and saw. Each time I´ve loved -as a Christian- I wanted to give my best but, something deep in me must be wrong, that I was wronged… In that sense, I´m sorry: I don´t know how to make things worked better and, the moment God (or Jesus) had told me: “Marry her!” I would but, since I´m falling short often, I have no other way than fornicating so, my sin would be marrying a person I do not love assured and completely. I care nothing what a church says! The moment they have realized how cheating on hurts, the moment those legalistic “leaders” knew their wives gave -some of them- children whose parents weren´t them (biologically) they would know the burden forced marriage set on men. If God ever wanted men to be married, He should have assumed the role of matchmaker and -in my life- I couldn´t see Him well. That´s all my fault! I did everything wrong (to be wronged).
-Ha! Ha! What a remorse you have.
-It is! Just think of Tamar: She asked the ring on that cord Judah had around his neck; she asked anything she would use to prove he was loyal and trustworthy but, such a man simply needed a physiological sexual release, someone to feel he was alive -as a man- and, that chance he had (that day) was with a black widow he knew “killed” two of his sons. Ha! Ha! What an irony! He simply “slept” with his daughter-in-law... I never paid someone for sex but, if I had “to feel” I was loved for being the person I am, I think I will remain being the same hermit.
-That sounds disgusting!  She was not a black widow neither a prostitute!
-Legally it is that! He paid her “with a promissory note” to get sex and, that´s why I think we´ve been lied. I cheated on several times when I was pagan but, if I had no real rights of sexual and emotional exclusivity in marriage -as warranty- why do I need it? I never wanted children, I never planned to live a family life and, all I had as a want in life was sex (and someone I really liked endlessly). Marriage gave me nothing I lacked (except children) and, if currently people are free to do WHATEVER they want to be pleased humanly, what is marriage set for today? I have seen (and heard) several men whose children weren´t them, biologically. I know there are women who called their lovers to have sex whenever their spouses left home to work... I know there are spouses having love affairs inside their offices and working places so, what is marriage for? Is it a proven social convenience, not working any longer? Each time I heard it preached -as a thing sorting out situations of loneliness- I know I´m being lied… I spent 13 years in marriage. I enjoyed that but, I was wronged. God never told me “she is the one” and I have loved in vain. 

We´re living in sins!


A. Toro  Sept. 2015

Friday, September 18, 2015

Dios no está allí... Está dentro de ell@s...

Cuando alguien me habla mal de Lutero, del protestantismo, de la libertad de CREER POR CONVICCIÓN (que creyendo por conveniencias) miro el registro de mi historia y de la historia antes que yo, miro mi vida, lo que viví y sigo aprendiendo. Leo al Jesus histórico y de los que Él escogió (personalmente) como discípulos...

Luego pongo los ojos en lo que somos, lo tonto, necios o ciegos... Y me digo: "Yo he vivido. Yo lo sé"... Dios no está allí... Está dentro de ell@s... Pero jamás en la Babilonia de oro o plata, que ell@s construyeron.



A.T

Friday, August 28, 2015

¿Es la Biblia la Palabra de Dios? Parte 1



(Es la única forma en que habla, o habló?)

Si Dios se "comunica" preponderantemente por ese medio impreso tan manipulable (algo impersonal para quien ama, por cierto), definamos qué es "comunicar" y qué es "informar".

a) Comunicar:

"Tradicionalmente, la comunicación se ha definido como «el intercambio de sentimientos, opiniones, o cualquier otro tipo de información mediante el habla, escritura u otro tipo de señales». Todas las formas de comunicación requieren un emisor, un mensaje y un receptor destinado, pero el receptor no necesita estar presente ni consciente del intento comunicativo por parte del emisor para que el acto de comunicación se realice. En el proceso comunicativo, la información es incluida por el emisor en un paquete y canalizada hacia el receptor a través del medio. Una vez recibido, el receptor decodifica el mensaje y proporciona una respuesta."

b) Información:

"f. Acción y resultado de informar o informarse:
me dio una información muy detallada.
Oficina donde se informa sobre algo:
los impresos se recogen en información.
Conjunto de datos sobre una materia determinada:
información meteorológica.
Investigación jurídica y legal de un hecho o delito."

c) informar:

tr. Dar noticia de algo, enterar. También prnl.:
nos informaron por teléfono.
Completar un documento con los informes oportunos:
informar un dossier.
filos. Dar forma sustancial a algo.
intr. Dictaminar una persona en un asunto de su competencia:
informó muy positivamente sobre el solicitante.
der. Hablar en estrados los fiscales y los abogados.



Por definición, COMUNICAR es "informar", hacer partícipes, mútuamente, desde el EMISOR al RECEPTOR, y en cualquier otra dirección posible INVERSA: Desde el RECEPTOR al EMISOR.

Por extensión, INFORMAR es "participar" y "decir", sin que el EMISOR tenga interés alguno de "informarse" o "comunicarse" con el RECEPTOR. En ese sentido, INFORMAR no es mutualmente interactivo ni interdependiente (cosa muy distinta a la reciprocidad de la comunicación bidireccional o multipolar).



Dicho esto, de manera extensiva, cada persona podrá llegar a sus conclusiones:


  • ¿Es palabra de Dios? 



  • ¿Es palabra de hombres?

Próximamente, se publicará la parte 2 de este tema.

Graxs!

Friday, August 21, 2015

Reason to marry virgins

I wish I knew the name of the man who wrote this!

He deserves the dued credits and honors for having written this post I read on a Chrsitian site...


9 Reasons! For Christian Single Ladies (Women).....
There might have been questions about this from BOTH MEN AND WOMEN and I figured it was time to share about it too. Before I share another line though, it’s important that I begin with a few things and get some things out of the way.

A) This article is mainly for mature Christian single women. Mature. Christian. Women. Why? Because Girls might get offended or not understand but a mature Christian woman will probably get it and take the knowledge.
B) A woman’s relationship status does not define her, so being single is not a disease or an indication of something “wrong” with her. So this article is not to list a bunch of reasons why you are at fault for not being married …as if marriage was something you just bought at the store. I wouldn’t do that. I respect and care about women’s issues more than there is space to write about here. As a daughter of God, he is working out your story beautifully, so bask in that. This is however, for Christian ladies who are ready for marriage but frustrated that they can’t find the right guy even though there seems to be options.
C) I write this respectfully but I will write it as honestly as possible as a man and as someone who knows a thing or two about relationships. I’ll tell you probably like no one has told you before. So the tone may be a bit direct not because I am brash but because I am writing to Women not girls and one thing I know about women is that contrary to the opinion that they want you to beat around the bush, when it comes to things that are really important, they want you to tell them like it is. They would rather know now, shed a tear or two and start working ASAP to move out, move up, move on or move forward so they don’t waste more time doing the same thing and not getting the outcomes they want.
D) All your single girlfriends AND male friends should read this.
So here we go. Why can’t our wonderful Christian sisters find their Boaz, David or Joseph?

1. Many Christian ladies want a man that “knows where he is going”… But God’s men usually don’t have a clue: 
Think about that for a moment. Think through the Bible… All the great men that had relationships with God and who he used and blessed….They usually didn’t have a clue about where they were going and (here is the even crazier part) even if they had a clue, their lives for a long time did not reflect that great place God said he was taking them. Just think about it. All the way from Abraham …going to a land he did not know; Joseph having a dream that people would bow down to him but became a slave and then a prisoner; David who was anointed to be King and then lived the next 15 years in the wilderness as a fugitive; Peter the great fisher of men who was barely able to catch fish.
These men would have had a rough time finding a wife today. Could you imagine?
Abraham calling sister Sarah aside after church and saying “Errrmmm Sarah you know I love you right? Soooo God wants to take us somewhere …But I have no idea where. Wanna marry me and come?”
David too. “Look baby…I really care about you and want to spend the rest of my life taking care of you… In fact, I’ve just been anointed King…Buuutttt I’m kinda living in the bushes right now and on the run from the King I’m supposed to replace.”
Or Joseph. “Look Jill, God has shown me many dreams that people will bow down to me and I’ll be a great leader. But right now I wash dishes in Potiphar’s house and I’m a slave boy there”
God’s men don’t “always” have a direction or know the details. So stop looking for men who have it all figured out!
Here is the solution though….. Here is the good news. Here is what you SHOULD be looking for: Men who can be LED by God. (Rom 8:14) Don’t look for a man who already has the best laid plans. Look for one who knows how to follow directions from the best planner.
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man may not know exactly where he is going but he knows how to follow God.

2. Many ladies approach relationships from the perspective of “Low Risk, High Reward”: Meaning, they want to get the absolute best man with the least amount of risk. (And I’m not just talking about finances here) They don’t want to put themselves out there at all.
They want the man to take ALL the risks… to be utterly convinced he wants to be with them before they open up about who they really are. You know who you are… You act like YOU are the ONLY prize in the equation. He doesn’t know anything about your background but you turned into a private investigator to make sure he is good enough for you.
You are financially irresponsible and an impulsive spender, you’re spending insane percentages of your income on your hair, shoes, bags, and your “package” but, you want a man who knows how to make and keep money.
 You have not grown your faith or prayer life to where it needs to be but you want a demon chasing, tongue speaking, Bible spitting warrior of a husband… Because “he is the leader of the home”.
You’ve dated a bunch of “losers” that didn’t work out but, he is no good because he has had several failed relationships, too? 
You want to see him as he is but, you cover yourself up in perfectly filtered Instagram pictures, hair extensions, push up bras, makeup and layers of stuff that make it impossible to see who you really are. 
You are lazy with not much follow-through but, you want a man who can stay up all night working on a project. If he put that spotlight on you, would YOU make the cut?
In essence, many Christian ladies say they have faith but they don’t. 
They say that God is their source but they are lying. They say that they trust God’s will for their future but they are lying. They don’t. They put their trust in a man. What kind of job he has/can get. How much he is making or can make. They want to make sure he has the “ability to provide”. They want him to have his life utterly figured out…
But I have met many great men who haven’t found the employment they have the potential to get.
I have met many others who were living it up until the economy crashed. I have met some who had it all but God insisted they give it up to go and further the gospel.
v If you want a Boaz, David or Joseph, you’re going to have to have to be OK, not having everything perfectly figured out.

3. Many ladies forget that good Christian men look for women who share similar non-romantic, non-spiritual values: 
Sure he should be romantic and sure he must share those spiritual values but eerrmmm ladies… These Christian brothers are looking for those other character traits as well that speak to the OPERATION of your possible lives together. Dependability, thriftiness, work ethic, time management, hard work, follow-through and so on.
One of the first things we learn about Ruth for example, was her work ethic. ( Ruth chapter 2 ). She knew how to pull her hair back, forget about her nails, roll up her sleeves and get on the grind. She worked really hard and even when she got the attention of the “well established guy with the sensitive heart” she didn’t stop working. She took the break that he offered her and went back to work.
That’s how you earn a man’s respect… When you can show him that what he HAS does not define who you are.
Here is the icing on that cake. Just because Ruth could get down and work, didn’t mean she couldn’t look pretty and tidy up (Ruth 3:3)
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man knows it takes a lot more than butterflies and date nights to fulfill God’s mandate for his family.

4. Many ladies pre-qualify their leads: 
This is one of the most CRITICAL reasons. In fact, there is a powerful 2 part series on just that
** More about this, coming too in the first comment I’m going to make below…..
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man … Spends a long time NOT looking like the Boaz, David or Joseph the world will eventually come to know.

5. Good Christian men know their worth too and don’t want to settle either: 
Yea ladies… Men are understanding their worth a bit more too. Christian men are getting more and more comfortable attending relationship seminars and getting information about seeking God’s face for a wife. They are realizing how powerful of an impact a wife has on the outcome of their lives and ministry, and they are spending more time trying to see what is beneath the surface. They know that a woman can make or break everything. They realize that a woman’s desires can accelerate him towards purpose or derail him.
They are praying more and they are realizing that while you still remain a prize, they too are precious in God’s eyes and want to do right by him. They are realizing that a wife can make or break a man.
Yes, they are praying for a Ruth but, they are also praying against Delilah as well.

v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man knows his worth too.

6. Many Christian ladies have no testimony with men: 
A few years ago, an older friend (a number of years older than me) came up to me after a church program and asked me about a lady in my church. Who she was, and what she was like as a person.
I didn’t stop talking for minutes. They were married about a year later.
Same thing happened to Ruth. (Ruth Chapter 2 from Vs 3) Boaz came back from a trip, saw Ruth and asked his Foreman “Who is that and who does she belong to”, to which the foreman answered and gave a fantastic testimony of her character. (See Boaz’s response in Vs 11)
Here is a secret ladies, you know how you like a guy and try to keep it to yourself until your girlfriends force a confession out of you? We guys don’t do that. The moment we think we are interested in you, we are telling someone and we are asking around about you….and we are asking our MALE friends/mentors. Because we know they will tell us like it is and of course won’t spread it all around church and make things suddenly awkward or cause all the sisters to start giving the dirty eye next Sunday. Bro code.
The truth is that even Christian ladies can be toxic sometimes when it comes to how they treat men who they don’t consider a prospect. You forget that when the real prospect comes and is interested in you, he will ask other men… Some who may never have approached you but who have watched you from afar, and yes some who may have had an interest in you but you didn’t like. How did you handle those situations? (You totally need to read that article link above…especially the 2nd part of that series)
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man looks deeper than the surface beauty. They look for testimonies of the woman’s character.

7. Many Christian women want a Proverbs 31 Man: 
That’s not a typo. Pick up your Bible and read Proverbs 31 again with fresh eyes… from the perspective of the character of that woman… And you will see that those qualities are the ones that many women are looking for in a man when they should be busy developing those qualities themselves.
Single Christian men are reading that passage looking for those qualities in a woman, and women are putting that passage down and instead looking for those qualities in a man.
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man has read Proverbs 31 and wants her.

8. Many Christian ladies want to be married but, they are not truly ready to be led: 
They want to marry a boyfriend, but not a husband. They want only a partner, but not a leader. They want an emotional prenup that things will always be 50:50. They say they will concede authority to God himself, but in their heart, they are not willing to be led by his representative in the home. What I am about to say next I say with the utmost respect to women.
Men were created to lead at home. Now, that leadership comes with accountability to God meaning that God holds him accountable and will punish him first for bad leadership. But a man cannot be accountable for a woman he can’t lead... And a Christian man does not want to be over anything he can’t be accountable to God about.
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man is a great servant leader as Jesus Christ… But he is a born leader, and he knows it.

9. Many young married Christian women are painting a fairytale picture of marriage to their single ladies
Many young married women are doing a major disservice to single women. These young married women create a fairytale picture of weddings and marriage to their single friends. They love being the center of attention and talk up how dreamy it is. Perfect Instagram photos, perfect wedding photos, expensive glamorous weddings, perfect Facebook updates, photos and so on. Is there anything wrong with that? No. It would just help a lot more when married young women keep it real with their sisters and tell them that the wedding day does not make the marriage. 
It would help a whole lot more if they sit their single friends down and talk about the importance of a praying wife, a strong wife, a submissive wife (to a Godly man) and how contrary to popular opinion, the faith of a wife is both a weapon for the family and its defense as well. Instead, they get their single sisters all dreamy eyed and waiting for a perfect story and a perfect man… Waiting for KalEl from planet Krypton with the big “S” on his chest and a red cape, when they should look at Clark Kent from Planet earth.
v The Boaz, David or Joseph kind of man knows that the wedding is not the marriage and doesn’t want to create an impression he can’t maintain.

So…start/join the conversation below. Which one of the points reasonated with you? 
Was it an eye opener? 
Were there any surprises on the list? 
Any additional thoughts? Share those comments below.
**Our point number 4, from the above article.
If you have ever worked in sales for more than a month and received training, you have probably heard this before. Don’t pre-qualify your lead.

What exactly is a lead? What does it mean to pre-qualify a lead? And what the heck does that have to do with relationships? Well, a lead is simply a contact that may… or may not become a customer. It is at best a prospect. Just an opportunity that may or may not result in a commitment.
So what does it mean to pre-qualify a lead?
It’s when a salesperson prematurely tries to quickly determine if a prospect is actually capable of buying so he/she can determine how to treat that prospect. The salesperson quickly sees if the prospect fits the “buyer profile” and if not, the prospect is treated differently.

If the prospect sounds or looks like they have the capacity and intention to buy, the salesperson’s behavior changes. He/she speaks politely, is patient to hear every word that comes out of the prospect’s mouth and even offers them coffee in the lobby.

However, if they don’t look or smell like money, the unwise salesperson disconnects, makes a mental decision that the person isn’t of much use, and behaves accordingly towards that prospect.

But the truth that any good salesperson knows is that you just never know who your next big customer will be. In fact, some of the biggest customers may be ones that DON’T look or sound like the typical buyer. Many a salesperson has missed out on big fish customers, because they were looking for ones that fit the profile.
Same is true in relationships.
Many of us meet people all the time but we pre-qualify them prematurely. That’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that our behavior towards them becomes disrespectful and we throw courtesy out of the window. It’s like we are saying, “If you are not dating/marriage material, then you don’t deserve my courtesy and respect as a person”
However, just like in sales, you just never know who your big fish is.
Sometimes (in fact MANY times) the person who can add the most value to your life doesn’t look or sound like the profile you had in mind.
I know some people are reading this and saying “naaahh…that’s not me. I don’t do that… I treat everyone with respect and courtesy”….well, let’s see.

If you are a lady, think about the last 10 guys that showed an interest in you, but you were not interested in. Did they walk away from that situation with their dignity intact? Or did you make the situation awkward for them? 
Did you use them to pump yourself up with your girlfriend as you flashed her the “please save me from Godzilla” look? Did they walk away kind of embarrassed? Did they walk away saying wow “I’ll never do that again” Or did they walk away feeling like “wow the world is full of great… Classy women?

If you are a guy, think about the last 5 ladies that you have shown interest in (but didn’t have an interest in you) or who have shown interest in you (but you had no interest in) and ask yourself those same questions…

You may not have realized it until now but, you may be “that girl” or “that guy” that tears down people because you think they are a bother to your “royal eminence” simply, because they were not your type or they didn’t “meet your standards”.

I hear ladies all the time saying things like “It’s so frustrating to be approached by all these guys that I have no interest in”.

Oh my my my how terrible that must really be… (to be considered attractive or desirable to the point where guys are willing to take the social risk to approach you) versus not being approached at all…

Just think about that for a moment:
Even when you determine that this person is not dating/marriage material, you shouldn’t treat them with less respect or less courtesy than they deserve.

Why? Because just like in sales, even if a prospect doesn’t “buy” from you, their positive experience with you may inspire a testimony about you and ultimately result in a referral or introduction to someone who does buy.
So you made a move and SHE wasn’t interested. That’s ok. Keep it moving and still treat her with respect and courtesy. Don’t respond in anger to try to mask the bruise on your ego. That’s petty and immature.

So HE is not dating material. He is “not your type”. That’s ok. Still treat him with respect… Still be courteous. How much work did you have to do to become “attractive” in his eyes to be worth approaching? Nothing. HE interpreted something about you that was worth the pursuit. That alone is a compliment. Give him an “A” for effort.

Does all this mean you shouldn’t have standards? NO. 
Does this mean that everybody you meet is a prospect? Probably not. 
You should have standards and you should have a good idea of what you want. There is nothing wrong with that.
The problem comes when you leave a trail of rudeness, lack of courtesy, shattered confidence, seeds of anger, broken self-images, and disrespect along the way. The problem is sowing negative seeds in the hearts of people (about themselves and the opposite sex) as they come in contact with you.

In my next post(s), I’ll tell you the specific effect this can have on you and the people that come in your life. I’ll also tell you ways to tell someone you are not interested in them without being rude or insensitive. ”

I think the problem is around chastity and not marrying as we thought we should. Priests were “ordered” to marry virgins and, surely there were good reasons to do so (to be spiritually free from sexual problems, later on?):
Lev 19:29  "Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.

This is so important, in God´s sight, that He made prevision to avoid future consequences and these are clearly felt when we see so many people hurt, separated and divorced. When a young lady was unwilling to be ruled by her parent’s advice, there was another option many families would have regretted:

Lev 21:9  And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Lev_21:14  He must not marry a woman who has had sexual relations with any man. He must not marry a prostitute, a divorced woman, or a widow. The high priest must marry a virgin from his own people. 
Eze_44:22  The priests must not marry a widow or a divorced woman. No, they must only marry a virgin from the family of Israel or a woman whose dead husband was a priest.

Ezekiel´s words are too tough to be heard. No doubt these were addressed to Israel, as a disloyal nation, but this teaching may also serve men an women to be informed “spiritually” of the morale of these strong words he tossed on Israel, as a woman:
Eze 16:32  Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 
Eze 16:33  Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 
Eze 16:34  So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different. 
Eze 16:35  "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD: 
Eze 16:36  Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 
Eze 16:37  therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

It might hurt ladies, even some men; but I chose to believe I was wrong."