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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 idolatry is based on the idea that you can do anything that will win the favor of God, aside from following his Law

vain means "without likely results" "to no useful end" it is pure window dressing and it is the root of the sin of the leader of the Fallen Angels

also, the whole point of Jesus is that you aren't doomed just because you have sin

we all have sin, but do we seek to heal it and make it holy or do we continue to defend it?
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 trying to defend sin as holy is the purest form of vanity
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i've heard this one argued as being support for "works doctrine" but it's not a church and it's not a doctrine, i'm not a cult leader and everyone who is a true Christian seeks to correct their mistakes, and forgive themselves and others for those that are made, for... and this is the thing

those who are genuinely interested and seeking to not repeat these mistakes

number one red flag of an evil person is the way that they pretend at being regretful and then go do the same thing over and over again

in my instinctive metric, if i do something 3 times, i'm sick, and i need therapy and i need help, i'm a mess and something is controlling me that i need to grapple FROM THE INSIDE nothing someone else can help me with

this was my instinct as a child, and this is the instinct of most people, and i had been conditioned by living under the manipulative control of evil people who persuaded me to forgive them for far more sins than i would not allow myself to feel i was absolved from

no, that's something i've learned, if i wouldn't stand by and let myself do these things, how can they do them without inherently being toxic, evil pieces of shit to be avoided?

and what to do with them?

turns out, ignoring them is the main treatment

doesn't matter what the evil is, aside from physically stopping it from hurting your stuff, the main thing you do is avoid the person, shun the person, leave the person's presence

so, yeah, there's a reason why the monks sequestered themselves in monasteries, they got sick of trying to live in a society riddled with people who were comfortable with people who committed clear and repeated offenses against the good