<2021-03-30T00:41:05.000Z> VoidenRay: Poor and lacking teachings often drive people away from the Church. I was raised Catholic, but my religious education was a joke. I was into the occult and Eastern religion for  many years before I came back to Christ.
<2021-03-30T00:45:34.000Z> VoidenRay: Do you have a good Church now? 
<2021-03-30T00:47:57.000Z> VoidenRay: If you are West Virginia you may be in luck. Have you ever heard of ROCOR/Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia? 
<2021-03-30T00:48:44.000Z> VoidenRay: Are there Lutheran Churches in your area? 
<2021-03-30T00:48:54.000Z> VoidenRay: LCMS is very solid. 
<2021-03-30T00:50:43.000Z> VoidenRay: Most others are either mixed Theology non-dom or Baptist right? Some of the Baptist Churches should be okay though? 
<2021-03-30T00:52:44.000Z> VoidenRay: Is your background Baptist? 
<2021-03-30T00:58:04.000Z> VoidenRay: What about Presbyterians? Some of them are based I think.
<2021-03-30T00:58:52.000Z> VoidenRay: Are you into Calvinism? 
<2021-03-30T01:00:59.000Z> VoidenRay: Some Presbyterians are based and some are not. I don't know how people square Reform Theology with woke shit though.
<2021-03-30T01:02:47.000Z> VoidenRay: It's important that you have a faith community. The specific Church doesn't matter so long as they are not heretical. You don't have to agree with every last part of the specific Theology of a Church to go. When people worship together Christ is in their midst. 
<2021-03-30T01:05:03.000Z> VoidenRay: That must be tough. You should e-mail the Pastor and explain your personal situation and ask other important questions.
<2021-03-30T01:06:44.000Z> VoidenRay: Not from a pastor who is doing what God demands of him. 
<2021-03-30T01:08:04.000Z> VoidenRay: Sounds good. 
<2021-03-30T01:08:43.000Z> VoidenRay: You can also meet good Christian women at a Church. 
<2021-03-30T01:10:05.000Z> VoidenRay: Even if a woman has a troubled past do not over look her if she has repented of her sins and engaged in self restoration. God forgives and so do we. 
<2021-03-30T01:12:35.000Z> VoidenRay: I don't have a wife either. If I find one then so be it. 
<2021-03-30T01:13:59.000Z> VoidenRay: You could become a monk. There are Lutheran monks you know.
<2021-03-30T01:16:05.000Z> VoidenRay: You could become one. You were baptized right? 
<2021-03-30T01:18:08.000Z> VoidenRay: If I don't find a wife relatively soon then after I pay off some minor debts I may become a monk. I'm Orthodox, so I have that option. 
<2021-03-30T01:19:32.000Z> VoidenRay: There are Protestant monastics, however, most are Roman Catholic or Orthodox. 
<2021-03-30T01:20:22.000Z> VoidenRay: A family from my Church moved to Russia to escape the poz. Homosexual propaganda is illegal in Russia and they were afraid that the schools would try to turn their kids gay.
<2021-03-30T01:22:24.000Z> VoidenRay: They are imitating Jesus by not taking a wife. A monks job is to pray for the entire world. St. Paul also says that celibacy is the best option. 
<2021-03-30T01:24:43.000Z> VoidenRay: Not all monks are secluded. They often run hospitals, schools, and they staff Churches. Only some of them are secluded. What they are doing is like what Jesus did when he went into the wilderness to fast and face down the evil one.
<2021-03-30T01:26:53.000Z> VoidenRay: One of the most important prayers that Orthodox monks say is this: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner". This is called the Jesus prayer. 
<2021-03-30T01:28:43.000Z> VoidenRay: Ahh.. the Pharisee and the Publican? 
<2021-03-30T01:29:34.000Z> VoidenRay: We all need to pray for God's mercy. 
<2021-03-30T01:30:30.000Z> VoidenRay: They do that as well. Part of being a monk is repentance. 
<2021-03-30T01:33:09.000Z> VoidenRay: As one moves closer to God one starts to experience real objective changes. Just as Christ was transfigured on the mountain top so shall we. This process is called Theosis.
<2021-03-30T01:34:52.000Z> VoidenRay: It's more of a description. Think of Philippians 2:12-13.
<2021-03-30T01:36:20.000Z> VoidenRay: Don't worry. I don't hold it against you. We are still on the same team. 
<2021-03-30T01:37:07.000Z> VoidenRay: So am I.
<2021-03-30T01:39:03.000Z> VoidenRay: My ancestors are mainly from England, Ireland and France. I also have a bit of Norwegian and German. 
<2021-03-30T01:40:33.000Z> VoidenRay: Some of my ancestors arrived in Virginia in 1614. One of my many great repeated grandfathers was a preacher. My dad's side of the family is Irish and French Canadian thus Catholic. 
<2021-03-30T01:42:25.000Z> VoidenRay: As a joke you could claim that you're Black and try to immigrate to Germany or Sweden. I don't think that it would work though. 
<2021-03-30T01:43:02.000Z> VoidenRay: The last time I was in Germany was 2004. 
<2021-03-30T01:43:50.000Z> VoidenRay: I took six years of German in school.
<2021-03-30T01:44:56.000Z> VoidenRay: Typical. I'm from the upper Midwest and it's still rather White outside of major cities.
<2021-03-30T01:46:16.000Z> VoidenRay: If you move to Northern Wisconsin you will not see a groid. 
<2021-03-30T01:47:36.000Z> VoidenRay: When one of my friends was a kid his dad would say "nigger" everytime he saw a black guy because it was such are rare event.
<2021-03-30T01:49:41.000Z> VoidenRay: I never saw a non-White person until I was five and we moved to Indianapolis. 
<2021-03-30T01:50:02.000Z> VoidenRay: I no longer live in Indiana. It's okay, but not the best. 
<2021-03-30T01:52:22.000Z> VoidenRay: My dad is from Vermont. Now that place is super White but it's also super libtarded. 
<2021-03-30T01:53:57.000Z> VoidenRay: My dad became a racist when he went to college and had to live around groids.