Romans 1 says it all. mainstream churches have lost their zeal for God a long time ago and do not believe the entire Bible rather they pick and choose what they want to believe.
when a person picks up a Bible it deals with sin, repentance and total commitment to Jesus. there is no way around it, if you read enough Bible the person will find it is all or nothing.
like this verse 'whoever takes the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God'. taking the plow means doing work for God or being serious about God and then if the person gets lazy and says the party days, looking back at the 'good ole days' they will not be able to stand against the temptations the devil throws at us.
the devil tries to trip us up and devour us every day 'like a roaring lion seeking whom to destroy' so if you are looking for easy ned flanders oakleedokalee christianity it does not exist. the enemy is always looking for ways to attack.
then your own mind like why does God allow this? to be honest let me tell you the secret- i do not know why.
the Bible says 'trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding' . a thunder storm is coming and the human wants to pick the ant to shelter it but the ant thinks it wants to kill it as the human scrapes the sand with the cardboard and the ant yells bloody murder.
we do not know everything. in those dark times i look at what God created, like flowers, clean streams, baby laughing, good fruit. yes man sprayed chemicals but God made it good, therefore He is a good God.
then i think about Jesus willingly dying on the cross for my sin. that is love i can not understand but Im glad the Bible says Jesus is God and that make one loving God who would leave heaven, become half mortal man half God and suffer with no wife, no home, no riches even though He made all the gold He chose a poor life.
contrast with the rappers who wear gold all over and screw every pretty girl they can just to trash them and hopefully they did not get std's.
no it is man who is the bastard, God is good but during the storm we can lose our minds and question the goodness of God.
sinners will sin, and God lets them. if they sin long enough they become cold hearted and God lets that happen. its heaven or hell.
choose heaven . stay with Jesus another day if you are struggling and He will clear the storm if not only for a little respite. hang in there we are near the end. the signs of times are here that the Bible warned about at the end of time.
it is at hand