You’re talking about mockery and my salvation? Clean up your own backyard before saying idiotic things like that to me again. Smh.
You took offense to me using the word "silly" (which in my opinion, was not only accurate but
kind), yet here you are dishing out the word "idiotic" like it's nothing. Come on, you've got to see that.
You sure got a lot edge uttering words like that. Very Christlike.
In the Bible we are told to treat others the way we want to be treated ourselves, Matthew 7:12. I know that many of you righteous people don’t like that part because it’s in opposition to your pure, pharisaical and Bible thumping Christianity.
People like you always find something, in the Bible, or other places, to back up your hostile viewpoints.
Is it going against the word of God to stand by a lifelong friend who is dwindling downhill and has done so for years? Is going against God getting her to hospital time and again because she can’t live with herself? Is it going against the word of God getting rid of all her liquor so that she can’t get drunk at least not that day? Me and two other friends have been looking after her for years now. Why? Because we love her. Do you know what that word means? You think me starting Bible thumping will save the day?
...is there a reason you don't count yourself among the righteous?? Because if you're a Christian, you've been made righteous, so you're righteous right along with the rest of us!
None of the things you mentioned is going against the Word of God. The saddest part is, without the Word of God, you and your other caregiving friends are spinning your wheels. The Word of God is exactly what your hurting friend needs to heal.
I can look back on the time of my life when
I was the hurting friend (with the same sin struggle as the friend you mentioned) and I can tell you, it was my one true Christian friend who told me the truth of God's Word and continually prayed for me that I appreciate the most. The ones who knew and said nothing...well...honestly I can't really understand where they're coming from, seeing as though they knew the truth all along and could have told me at any time. It's like they stuck around just to see my eventual demise (that they
knew was coming!). I excuse my unsaved friends (some who had same-sex attractions and some who did not) for not telling me because they didn't know the truth themselves. But once I became saved, I shared Jesus with them. I'm still praying for that to take root in their lives.
It's wonderful that you're taking care of your friend's physical and emotional needs, and that's totally needed. But as a person who has been where she is, I'm telling you that her spiritual needs are even more important. Sharing the Gospel in fact would be treating her the way I would want to be treated; and I know this from experience, not conjecture.
I'm not sure that you really see the power you have in the position you're in. I only
wish I was saved and knew the Gospel of truth back when I was futilely trying to help my hurting friends while hurting the same way myself. I would have been free much earlier and really had the solution to help them get free as well. You have two things that
many caregivers do not have: 1) the Truth and 2) freedom in Christ. That's huge! Walk in that, for the world's sake!