Essentially Samantha

 It seems to me that the angel of light known as universal reconciliation has crept into the Church via the unguarded back door and has taken root amongst the pews firmly. I have seen a lot of clergy and laity alike confess to believing in universalism. I admit I looked at the sources, I reasoned with myself and others as to why a loving God would throw anyone into hell, that it should be that love wins in the end. I also looked at the different names in the bible namely hades, sheol, the pit that are used to describe hell, but convinced myself they are in fact different locations, meaning different places we go to when we die. Universalism is a inclusivity doctrine. Its inclusive because lets face it if we throw hell out of the basket, it doesn't half make Christianity look appealing to the masses!  Why believe in the doctrine of hell at all? Well that's simple. I believe in hell and all of its thorny outplaying's because I believe in the teachings of Jesus. Jesus Himself ...

 Hello! if you are here from my YouTube channel, welcome! I had a channel on YouTube for around 2 years. I uploaded whenever I had spare time. However with home educating my son and all that life has thrown at me I have decided to stop uploading onto my channel. I find editing and recording time zapping, not to mention I can only record in daylight hours as my phone camera is pretty rubbish. Not to mention that since being peri menopausal i am finding it hard to express myself. I could not even think of the word saucepan the other day! I am finding that I get tongue tied and struck dumb when put on the spot. I am tripping over my words and having to re record again and again.  All of this is very time consuming whereas with a blog I take the time to analyse what I want to say and there is no pressure on my speech. I can edit anywhere and at any time and I find writing words easier to bypass my perimenopausal brain.  I will be leaving my channel up for people to still view...

 Two days ago I decided to come away from FaceBook. I left a message up saying that I would no longer be around on FaceBook. I find that with FaceBook it was no longer a safe space of positivity. Yes, sure, FaceBook was always going to be a place of controversy and arguments. I invited many into debates with me, that's how I grow. I like debate, I like learning from people and listening to different sides of an argument. However sometimes people took debate too far and became ad hominem and bitchy. People became argumentative or would gloat at your misfortune. People would hide behind emoji's and memes. Others would put up posts addressed to specific people but put out to address everyone even though you knew it was meant for specific people. People like to talk to the choir, using FaceBook to vent problems they have with the way the world is. Others use FaceBook to prove points, either locally or globally.  FaceBook algorithm also follows everything you do, advertising more a...

 I'm still currently living in my property, but with the threat of eviction hovering over my family. Today we call the landlord to see if she is willing to sell the property but with me, Barry and Paul and of course Noah the cat still in residence. This would mean we would be able to stay in the property, until we get a new landlord and with the possibility of us still living through another new tenancy here. We have been here for 10 years, but estate agents do not want to know because we are a family currently on benefits.  We meet the rental criteria and we have a long track record of paying our rent every month but landlords out there only want to know if you are working. I am trying to go self employed because employment and mental health is a difficult match. However I need to settle into new accommodation first before I can start up being self employed. Council housing list is long and tiring and the properties offered are tower block type or they are in bad areas where ...