Is Your Relationship with God Healthy?

Is Your Spiritual Relationship Healthy?

Has your Diety repeatedly:

1. Withheld approval, appreciation or affection?

Yes No

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.Lamentations 2:3 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?Psalms 10:1

2. Ignored your feelings?

Yes No

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.Psalms 2:12

3. Ridiculed your most valued beliefs?

Yes No

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.I Chronicles 5:25

4. Criticized you, called you names, shouted at you? Yes No For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.Isaiah 55:8,9 5. Humiliated you in private or in public? Yes No Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.Ezekiel 16: 37 6. Insisted you dress in the way She/He wants? Yes No In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly arrayI Timothy 2:9 7. Insulted you in front of your friends or family? Yes No Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.Malachi 2:9 8. Been jealous about imagined affairs? Yes No For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous GodExodus 34:14 9. Controlled what you do, who you see or where you go? Yes No Abstain from all appearance of evil.I Thessalonians 5:22 10. Punched, shoved, slapped, bit, kicked, choked, hit you or thrown objects at you? Yes No Despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction.Proverbs 3:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.Numbers 15:35 If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, you may want to contact Walk Away. They provide resources for those trying to exit fundamentalism. Abuse in relationships is: Any pattern of behavior by one person that causes another person to do something they do not want to do, prevents them from doing something they want to do or causes them to be afraid. Abuse can be verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, economic, social or psychological. Monthly Beast Self Exam | Scandals in Eden | Come Hell or High Water This Issue | Current Issue | Home | Site Map