(February 5, 2017 at 7:16 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Just keep tossing! I'm sure there'll be a happy ending eventually!

That usually costs a bit more than a single coin around here.

(February 5, 2017 at 1:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote:

(February 4, 2017 at 9:56 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: To the OP, why should I open myself up to mockery since this thread is most likely just a set-up?

1 Peter 3:15?

Only for those who are sincerely interested. I have no obligation to help people be a douche to me.

But whether people are interested or not is not your call to make. Why not ignore the douches and approach the subject honestly? Not to mention that the verse says you should always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks - not "except for douches".

(February 4, 2017 at 11:34 am)Godschild Wrote: Seems to me you're begging for an answer, why, to mock me, that's been what you do to me all the time. To prove what I'm saying is correct read your own post above you are begging because you know that's what it would take to get me to answer. I'm not playing your little game. Besides I do not do the pretend thing and you would know this if you had taken my posts with at least a grain of salt and tried to get to know me instead of blurting out a bunch of insults, so whether you are being honest or baiting me you've cried, "the sky is falling" to many times to either get your answer to actually understand or too mock me.

GC

Set up to what? I truly want to understand this phenomenon, what are you scared of? How exactly did I mock anyone in this topic? I'm trying to be respectful and get some answers. How did I insult you?

I did ask you what I did, but that truly is not uncommon. God does that a lot in the Bible - so are you pretending those parts do not exist in the Bible? Not just Bible we hear from Christian pastors that (gay) people should be killed, so I just wandered what would happen if God asked you to for instance kill people with red hair because I'm really am trying to figure out where you’re coming from. Do you carry out the will of God?

(February 3, 2017 at 1:36 pm)JJHenrie Wrote:

(February 3, 2017 at 1:25 pm)JJHenrie Wrote: Satan asks us to discard our faith, which admittedly is very incomplete and certainly lends itself to criticism.  But that's not the right way to do it.  The way to replace an incorrect or partially correct belief is to replace it with something more true, not less.  The atheists and hedonists question religious faith, and then profess that the only reasonable alternatives are their own belief systems, which are actually much more questionable and have far worse track records.  One has only to look at the French revolution, Communist Russia or China, or the Japanese Empire to know that socialism, rationalism, and atheism haven't done well by us.

Many of their criticisms are valid of course, just not the solution that they offer.

My apologies, I didn't actually answer your question

The reason I believe in my faith is that I asked God in prayer if it was true, and He answered me.  This experience is evidence to me that Mormonism is true.  Of course, my evidence isn't something I can share with anybody else, but I definitely advocate the method.  Try it and find out!  Be advised though that an answer is only likely to come if you're ready to follow it.

Best!

Justin

Same question as the one I posed GC: What evidence do you have that your schizophrenia is correct?

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(February 4, 2017 at 9:56 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: To the OP, why should I open myself up to mockery since this thread is most likely just a set-up?

Why should we listen to someone unwilling to give evidence for something he asserts is true?

(February 6, 2017 at 3:48 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:

(February 4, 2017 at 11:34 am)Godschild Wrote: Seems to me you're begging for an answer, why, to mock me, that's been what you do to me all the time. To prove what I'm saying is correct read your own post above you are begging because you know that's what it would take to get me to answer. I'm not playing your little game. Besides I do not do the pretend thing and you would know this if you had taken my posts with at least a grain of salt and tried to get to know me instead of blurting out a bunch of insults, so whether you are being honest or baiting me you've cried, "the sky is falling" to many times to either get your answer to actually understand or too mock me.

GC

Set up to what? I truly want to understand this phenomenon, what are you scared of? How exactly did I mock anyone in this topic? I'm trying to be respectful and get some answers. How did I insult you?

I did ask you what I did, but that truly is not uncommon. God does that a lot in the Bible - so are you pretending those parts do not exist in the Bible? Not just Bible we hear from Christian pastors that (gay) people should be killed, so I just wandered what would happen if God asked you to for instance kill people with red hair because I'm really am trying to figure out where you’re coming from. Do you carry out the will of God?

I try to carryout His will but I'm not always successful which is one of many reasons I need His forgiveness.
I did not say you had mocked me in this thread but, you have in others and so I see the perfect setup in the question. Actually I've answered this in another thread sometime back of this, you wouldn't like my answer anyway and most of the atheist here who do mock the Christians do so because they do not like hearing the truth. It's not my fault that the unbelievers here have made the Christians wary of answering certain questions, that should have been thought of before you all tried to make play things of the Christians. When you make people cautious because you don't respect them this is the kind of response you should expect. Sorry but I really do not know what else to tell you. I've been setup before and probably will be again and so I try and be aware.

GC

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(February 5, 2017 at 9:00 pm)Stimbo Wrote: But whether people are interested or not is not your call to make. Why not ignore the douches and approach the subject honestly? Not to mention that the verse says you should always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks - not "except for douches".

The response you are speaking of is why do we have faith in the living Christ as Neo-Scholastic said we do not have to answer the crazy questions, especially the ones we know any intelligent person knows isn't a reality with God. There are such times that you all need to go to the scriptures and take a serious look, honestly there's nothing there that will harm you.

GC

(February 6, 2017 at 4:17 am)Godschild Wrote: I did not say you had mocked me in this thread but, you have in others and so I see the perfect setup in the question.

Well I'm going to try to be a perfect gentleman in this topic, so even other religious people can feel relaxed and participate.

(February 6, 2017 at 4:17 am)Godschild Wrote: I try to carryout His will but I'm not always successful which is one of many reasons I need His forgiveness.
I did not say you had mocked me in this thread but, you have in others and so I see the perfect setup in the question. Actually I've answered this in another thread sometime back of this, you wouldn't like my answer anyway and most of the atheist here who do mock the Christians do so because they do not like hearing the truth. It's not my fault that the unbelievers here have made the Christians wary of answering certain questions,
GC

Interesting. Thanks for running with me on that. Okay, does it bother you that you'd do that? I mean does it disturb you that you'd be the kind of person that would do something you know is wrong just because God told you to do so?

The Bible gives clear criteria for demonstrating that your faith is true. Simply walk outside and tell the nearest tree to uproot itself and to jump into the nearest body of water. If it does as you have commanded it to do then your faith is true. Otherwise it's not.

(February 6, 2017 at 4:17 am)Godschild Wrote: There are such times that you all need to go to the scriptures and take a serious look, honestly there's nothing there that will harm you.

No; just bore the piss out of me. I have no interest in fables, nor do I worship them. Point to something in reality that unambiguously demonstrates the validity of theist claims and convince me. I'm open to persuasion, for the right reasons. What I'm not is unquestionably gullible.

My faith, true? A level and plum bob. I can't afford those laser thingies.