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Originally Posted by Ohio
I would ask you where is the scriptural support for these ministerial abuses, i.e. shaming, belittling, and humiliating brothers and sisters, which is far too common in the LC's.
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In 1989 my sister, older than me by one year+, drank Draino in an attempt to commit suicide. She was born again, but had become involved with an older man if Indian (from India) heritage. In their relationship she gave up most everything to become acceptable to him and his family. Then one Christmas he said that he had to go on a business trip to India. But my sister found out that he had gone to meet women and their families who his parents had set up meetings with regarding their arranging a marriage for him as was their custom. My sister was devastate, and in a moment of utter weakness sought to take her life. But she didn't succeed.
At least, not for two weeks. You see, she didn't die right away, it took the acid in the Draino two weeks to eat through all of her vital organs. She died early one morning... Having said to me the day before that she didn't want to die.
And I had had been at her side as she went through this.
How can I love a God who would allow this to happen to His own child... My sister who was just 27 years old.
Some seven years before the above happened, I was at home with my family. We had gone to bed. Then around one in the morning I heard a loud shattering of glass and my parents scream out. Gunmen/robbers had broken through the window in their bedroom. I instinctively ran from my room up to their room and was confronted by a man pointing a gun at me. He fired it from maybe ten feet away. The bullet missed, by for an hour my mother, step-father, and myself suffered beatings — my mother was raped. I was just seventeen, and couldn't for the life of me understand why this would happen to people who just tried to live good, simple lives.
Should I continue with my experiences?
What is the scriptural support for the way God allowed my sister to die, even though all she was doing was trying her best to love someone?
What is the scriptural support for God allowing my mother to be raped and myself to be beaten, even though all we ever tried to do was treat others in a proper manner?
Life... That which we live out daily on this earth... According to the time God has given us on it... Is often a "...far too common..." horrible experience for many.
You ask me for scriptural support for what people go through... Even believers when among other believers...
Most of the time I simply have to turn to this scripture verse...
Matthew 22:37... "And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.''
Why?
Because apart from my doing so... There will never be any expression of the following scripture verse in or through me...
Matthew 22:39... "And the second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.''