God is not a cosmic prison warden #addictionrecovery #god #love

lies about God are just as destructive. Sure. Okay. So let me give you a, for instance, so I've been on a lot of like YouTube podcasts and shows and stuff, you know, and I get, you know, I always offer my email address so people can ask me questions or get in touch with me or get some help, right? And what I usually get are emails where, you know, anonymous guy wants to know the answer to a question, right? And the question goes something like this: if I masturbate, but I don't fantasize, will I go to hell? If I masturbate, but I think about my wife, is it a sin? Yeah, right, right. You get a lot of these questions, right? And it really hurts my heart, number one, because what they're experiencing is a lie about God. They just don't know it. Okay. Right. And so what's the lie? Okay. It's, it's really, it's, this is actually quite profound if you think about it. What these people think about God is that we're living in a cosmic prison and God is the warden. And there are all these rules that you have to abide by when you're in the prison. If you don't follow the rules, he's going to punish you.