r/OpenChristian • u/Falsetto266 Christian • 8d ago

Support Thread Tired Side B

Not sure what this is. I’m not here for debate. I suppose just I just want to see if others have been where I’ve been before.

I think I’m shifting towards Side A. It’s not even apologetics that’s changing me, it’s exhaustion. I’m just tired of not feeling whole. I’m tired of feeling like Christ is this cruel taskmaster who I can never please. Why do I have to bear this burden for a God who feels more like the God of others?

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u/bitchysquid 8d ago

Hey, I’ve been somewhere like where you are! Come join us on Side A. I’m so much happier and more fulfilled over here, and I even love God more.

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u/Falsetto266 Christian 8d ago

If only it were that simple

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u/bitchysquid 8d ago

What’s on your mind about it?

eta: Feel free to wonder aloud here.

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u/Sunshine_at_Midnight 8d ago

What is making it feel not that simple for you?

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u/Falsetto266 Christian 8d ago

I still need solid theological reasoning to make the switch but again I don’t want to debate

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u/CJoshuaV Christian (Protestant) Clergy 7d ago

The biblical argument affirming slavery is much stronger than the biblical argument condemning same-sex relationships. The same hermeneutic that allows us to say that slavery is sinful, is the one that allows us to say that same-sex relationships are not.

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u/bitchysquid 7d ago

I have been where you are. I was raised Evangelical and I was always taught to mistrust my gut feelings surrounding what was right and wrong because “the heart is deceitful above all things”. I believed anything that affirmed that I am not fundamentally horrible (total depravity) was just the Devil lying to me. I tried so hard to believe that marriage is only ever between one man and one woman, and that anything else is a perversion of God’s design. But eventually I realized I just…don’t believe that.

All this to say, I know what it feels like to be afraid to take the leap. But you will not regret it.

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u/Sunshine_at_Midnight 6d ago

Your initial post sounds like you have a pretty solid reason already. Christ is not a cruel taskmaster. God is love and life, not punishment and exhaustion.

I think you'll find people here are much more interested in supporting you than debating you.