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While that is hot, it ain’t newsworthy hot. In Texas it’s considered normal summer weather. Helps to have A/C.

Yes, and some of them are pretty wacky translations. But the underlying word of God is unchanging.

I was raised an atheist and didn’t find Christ until adulthood, so I do grasp that it’s all voluntary. I also recognize that you can’t force anyone to be Christian against their will.

So on those points we agree. Where we differ is that I firmly believe my God is your God, and neither of us could ever change that, no matter how much we may want to. Christ came to save all people, with a focus on those who need it most. So yes, Christianity does apply to you, even though you don’t want it to.

I fully understand your “get off my back” perspective, honestly. Telling someone else how to think or what to do is a remarkably terrible way to make friends. I’m not here to be a jerk. Promise. I know you’re going to do what you’re going to do, irrespective of me. I only want to take every chance I can get to give testimony of my own experiences with God, and to follow the Great Commission for anyone who actually cares to let a seed get planted.

So does that mean we can coexist? I certainly hope so, but I recognize you may think I’m overbearing.

Actual Christian here. This decision is not extreme, whatsoever, though I get that it appears extreme to non-believers and feminists. The thing to understand here is that Christians follow the Bible. And conversely, those who do not follow the Bible are not Christian. So let’s take a look at a relevant Bible passage (1 Timothy 2:11-12):

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Now that’s the word of God. It’s eternal, unchanging, and dictates how He wills us to live.

It’s definitely out-of-step with modern secular culture, and that’s a very good thing from the Christian perspective. We are God’s peculiar people (Titus 2:11-15).