myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

I believe when you make the holiness of God your deepest and most tantamount pursuit, you lose interest in worldly desires and idols

God came to me in a dream and told me that if I wanted God to take care of my love life I would need to respect God, God’s Presence, God’s People and God’s Values and Commandments.

Bill Gates said during a Harvard graduation speech that he learned that “maximizing your chances does not guarantee your chances of success.” In making this statement, he eliminated all relativistic bias and personal...

I never used to keep the sabbath because I could not find a biblical explanation for keeping it that applied to Christians, but then I realized that having depression for 25 years until 2020 and anxiety disorders for 12...

Jacob married Rachel because she was bold and independent and glorious in appearance, but he later decided that he preferred sleeping with shy and meek and domesticated Leah and that he would rather build a family with...

36.6 x 36.5 = 1335 And I’ve learned that any squared root is a symbol for the reception of that squared root There are 36 Laws that I came up with by Analyzing Deuteronomy 5 and Deuteronomy 27 and than a half 37th law I...

Deuteronomy says not to marry a woman (or man) who worships and serves other Gods. In 2020, a guy who worshiped the God of power and beauty and status tried to date me and I quickly realized my correspondence with him was...

I believe that a parent says no to their child if the child wants to eat chocolate five times in one day and I now know the reason God had the guys I like reject me was that God did not believe they were healthy for me...

Rabbi Manis Friedman says reward and punishment are just training mechanisms, eventually you have to teach the child to do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do. I find when I tried to obey God because I...

God came to me in a dream and told my if I relied on God’s teaching and God’s blessing, God would take the ugly things in my life, and He would make beauty come out of it.

The bible teaches you must try to love and forgive everyone, even those who appear unworthy of your love and forgiveness, because one day God might test you by putting a righteous person in your path who deserves your...

Years ago I dreamed I wore a very sloppy outfit that was way too big and I had a huge voluptuous form, I looked at myself in the mirror 2-3 years later, and my body had become tighter and the outfit had become slimmer and...

My Story From the age of 4 I was raised in the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) religion. The religion professed to be the 'truth' about life, and as a child, I was impressionable and became brainwashed to believe all their...

The bible teaches that obedient Christians would face persecution and adversary, and I believe the Torah implies that the bigger blessings come after bigger adversaries and resistors. Like I had the worst problem I ever...

I learned that inspiration and reason is more valuable than passion and that for spiritual connection, you must avoid desire without marriage at all costs, might be hard for many but it’s the way to holiness, you must...

At a church sermon in 2018, our pastor taught us, that, “No matter how unqualified you feel, you have qualities that qualify you.” It goes back to a Jewish article I saw about how even thieves can teach you moral lessons,...

Bible on Romantic Sabotage The bible teaches that God will sabotage friendships and relationships built on falsehood and deceit which is why somebody who achieves a connection through dishonesty or manipulation or charm...

I had anorexia between the ages of 9-14 and the thing that cured me was discovering Jesus and learning God loves and judges you based on your good or bad heart and not based on what you look like. Now I’m no longer...

I believe that there's a possibility of them existing. They are just human beings like any other human. Magic cannot be explained by science but can be passed down. What I had gathered from the movies and tv shows of...

This is obviously a verse about raising children but a tangential offshoot idea that I got from studying this verse is, ”Humble people don’t fight to win the prize, they fight to show God they care and love him enough to...