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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The Light of Christ Burns Within My Soul

When I broke up with an ex boyfriend years ago I was struggling. I needed to know if God was really there. I needed to know if He really loved me and if I was going to be ok. I had forsaken God and His church. The misery I felt from being alone and from my sins was unbearable at this time. The guilt and lack of a purpose has lead me to crying at night, angry outbursts, and darkness that was so thick I never thought anything could penetrate. I was just recently coming back. That thick darkness was starting to slowly be penetrated with the light of the Gospel. The light was barely peaking into the darkness that had consumed my heart and mind. I needed Him, oh how I needed Him. As I raced up the stairs, tears flowing down, my mind racing I then tripped. As I lay on the stairs pleading to the God that I didn’t even know existed, I felt Him! I felt His love wrap around me and warm the pain that had consumed my heart. I felt a warmth on my body that can’t be replicated with any earthly experience. I had been touched and there was no turning back. That is the day I found my God, my salvation, my light, and my new life. I can never doubt that there is a God and that He loves me. Atheism was no way to live my life not just on the accord of misery but because it's not true. There is a God and he is very much aware of us. I testify that He will come to you if you reach out to Him. We are all drowning and he has reached out His hand to save us. He only can save us if we grab that hand of mercy, that hand of grace, love, and truth. We need to grab onto Christ and His atonement.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Coco on doing so in the name of God

Coco Thinks because God said so is a good enough response. 11:43pm
- 12 Comments
Alison Swan at 12:21am November 17
Mmm. . . Yes! I believe so and I think I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! :) Love you!

Coco Chanelle Jepson at 12:56am November 17
Ali I love you too

Kelsey Helm at 10:14am November 17
looks like you cant fight with eric, hes got God all figured out. I dont think im going to believe in God anymore because a UK ad told me not to. Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die

Coco Chanelle Jepson at 10:31am November 17
I know for someone who doesn't believe in God he sure feels like he knows a lot about him. The reason I said because God said so is because I got a response to the statement the church said concerning proposititon 8 in California. I had a friend say that it was a good statement but why didn't they just say because God said so. That got me thinking that we bare our testimonies in Christ's name, we take upon his name and try to take his example of charity throughout our lives, we believe in his gospel, we know of his sacrafice and use his atonement and our prophet gets revelation from him and God, so why not say because God said so? If personal revelation is what leads my life to do good than why let an athiest try to down play the importance of that. I understand the argument that many wars have been fought in the name of God but that doesn't mean God said to do it. Many crazies have murdered because they think an almighty power told them to. God loves all of us

Coco Chanelle Jepson at 10:35am November 17
I know God wants less hate and pain in the world and more love and acceptance. If God leads people to be righteous and do good works among each other than why belittle him and compare him with the Easter bunny for I know God means a lot to a lot of people in this world.

Kelsey Helm at 2:28pm November 17
well its kinda ironic that people can be so ' accepting of others' for example gay marriage. and yet make fun of God? if your so open minded, doesnt that contradict?

Coco Chanelle Jepson at 2:43pm November 17
I think you pick and choose what to be open minded too but that doesn't mean you have absorb everything presented to you.. I think the problem is people are calling out names and accusing people of bigotry but they themselves are biguous and intolerant. Especially when it comes to God and what Christians believe he stands for.

Kelsey Helm at 2:58pm November 17
right, and Im saying you can be an open minded person and not believe in God, but you wouldnt compare God to the Easter bunny. You would be respectful to other peoples beliefs.

Coco Chanelle Jepson at 3:15pm November 17
That's very true..

Eric Harlow at 12:22am November 18
1st of all, yes, the reason I lack belief in any God is because I saw an ad on a UK bus. It's not like I didn't go to church all my life growing up or anything like that. You preach of being more respectful of other people's beliefs right after you mock me for expressing my disbelief. I've attacked Chanelle personally once and apologized for it. "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone".
"I think you pick and choose what to be open minded too but that doesn't mean you have absorb everything presented to you" Exactly. Half the reason I post the stuff I do is because it presents an opposing view point and I realize Chanelle is intellectual enough to carry out a reasonable debate and just because someone believes strongly in something doesn't mean its off limits from non-personal attacks. If anything, it should serve to reaffirm your beliefs.
Finally, tell me honestly you've never made fun of Santa Clause or the Easter bunny. That's disrespectful to kids worldwide

Eric Harlow at 12:26am November 18
because they believe with all their heart that Santa Clause or the Easter bunny do exist. If you don't like what I have to say Kelsey, either ignore me or delete me as a friend. Simple as that.

Coco Chanelle Jepson at 3:06am November 18
I know that thinking about and sincerely pondering about your beliefs and having them tested makes your belief stronger. I remember learning about the neurological pathways in the brain that are strengthened the more they are confirmed and that's where your morals and standards are presented. The more you think about, act upon, and fight for those standards and morals the stronger your "testimony" of them becomes. These debates can be beneficial for both parties involved. I do agree with Kelsey on it being disrespectful and just because people do it doesn't make it right. Some things however are important to some and not to others. I've said words before that are highly offensive to others but to me they don't have the same emotions behind them so I had no problem saying them. Atheist vs LDS is always welcome on my status's.. just cuz I know I'll always win! haha ; )

Coco on gay marriage

I agree in separation of church and state. I do however not agree that we need to take morals out of the government. Yes morals are a part of religions but they are also just part of human beings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality. "Morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong. Morals are created by and define society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience." This definition of morality shows that morals are part of religion but also part of individual conscience. This individual conscience is and forever part of government because we have individuals who are running it. If we were to try to take morals out of government than there would be no law. Law's are based on what’s "right" and what’s "wrong". Stealing is "wrong" and it's against the law. However I can use the argument that stealing is "right" for me. Does this mean that we need to abolish all laws because people have different views on what is moral? A country without law as we can see from history and viewing other countries has never and will never work as long as people are not perfect. I have a belief that we will never reach perfection on this earth. We vote as citizens of The United States of America to determine what laws we want and who we want in office to instigate laws. We all have our own stance on morality and values, and we use what our beliefs are in order to choose what we want for this country. Morality will never be separated from state and it shouldn’t be. Hitler used the holocaust to enforce his idea of what was “right” and what was “wrong.” In his mind he probably truly thought that he was doing the “right” thing and all of his soldiers most likely believed they were doing “right”. I know what he did was “wrong” and his morals and mine are very different. As a citizen I have the absolute right to voice my opinion and say that killing people because of lineage, religion, race, and beliefs is wrong. I live in a country where I have the freedom of speech to tell the opinions of my mind and if that means telling someone they are wrong on a moral position than so be it. I will forever protect myself and my family. Legalizing gay marriage open’s the doors to legalizing unions for all different sexual preferences than we are in a world of trouble. Legalizing bestiality, necrophilia’s, pedophilia, and all other sexual preferences put’s the human race at risk. Legalizing same-sex marriage means it will be taught in schools as morally “right”. If we teach all sexual preferences as being “right” that will lead to more people choosing those actions. Darwin shook religion when he proposed evolution and survival of the fittest. Survival of the fittest means that we will only survive if we reproduce and we can only reproduce between a man and a woman. Well actually we can only reproduce naturally between two separate genders. The unnatural reproduction is for a different debate altogether. I love everyone. I have friends who are gay and I love them. My love is not discriminatory but that doesn’t mean I accept all acts by those I love. I might love my boyfriend but that doesn’t mean I’d accept him cheating. I love you but wouldn’t accept the act of you hurting me. I love gays but don’t accept the act of gay marriage.