(September 12, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Rekeisha Wrote:There's a God character in the Koran. Why don't you believe in it since it's supposed to be the same one as the biblical God? After all, they are both ethnocentric Middle Eastern desert deities.(September 11, 2015 at 1:33 pm)Divinity Wrote: There's not a single thing written by Jesus. Not a single one. So I'm not sure how you can be so sure that everything they said he said is what he actually said. Especially since most of them aren't even fucking first hand accounts.
By revelation from God. When I meet God my parents sporadically took us to church, I didn't read the bible and my family didn't read it to me. The only reason I believe what the bible says is because I know who God is. God is the foundation of my faith not the Bible. Now don't get me wrong I believe what the Bible says, but only because it is backed up by my revelation of God.
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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
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(September 12, 2015 at 1:24 pm)Divinity Wrote:Why would he do that?(September 12, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: By revelation from God. When I meet God my parents sporadically took us to church, I didn't read the bible and my family didn't read it to me. The only reason I believe what the bible says is because I know who God is. God is the foundation of my faith not the Bible. Now don't get me wrong I believe what the Bible says, but only because it is backed up by my revelation of God. (September 13, 2015 at 1:42 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(September 12, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: By revelation from God. When I meet God my parents sporadically took us to church, I didn't read the bible and my family didn't read it to me. The only reason I believe what the bible says is because I know who God is. God is the foundation of my faith not the Bible. Now don't get me wrong I believe what the Bible says, but only because it is backed up by my revelation of God.There's a God character in the Koran. Why don't you believe in it since it's supposed to be the same one as the biblical God? After all, they are both ethnocentric Middle Eastern desert deities. Because the god of the Q'uarn is not God and you can ask a muslim if what a christian belive about God is the same as what they believe and they will say no. There is only one God and He has reviled Himself through the Bible, and creation. (September 12, 2015 at 4:21 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Was it an actual audible voice you heard, or a dream, or what? I have never heard an audible voice from God. I have had dreams but the best I can explain it as is an impression or an idea. Sometimes a thought will be in my mind for awhile before I pay it any attention. In the past and even know certain scriputres or songs come to my mind in responce to certain situations.
And what makes you think it's "God" speaking to you?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(September 12, 2015 at 2:27 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 12, 2015 at 1:44 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: Hello TheRocketSurgeon (dig the name) I don't think you read my statement correctly. I said no argument could shake my faith because there isn't any real evidence that can be presented that would refute the reality of God. Also if it were up to me to stay a Christian I wouldn't stay a Christian, but bless the Lord it isn't. God is the one who will keep me to the end. At the very moment I gave my life to Christ is the very moment that I couldn't lose my faith. When I was younger I used to be afraid of losing my faith and I learned later that no one can take anyone out of the Father's hands. It says that God saves to the utter most. The most that I do with my faith is obey what God says. When I was covered by the blood of Christ and was justified by His sacrifice, by dieing on the cross and rising from the dead, there is nothing that can cause me to lose it because my salvation isn't up to me but God. I think you missed read me again I said that faith in God is not based in feelings. I believe you when you say that you felt on fire for God. I am saying that faith in God transends emotions and feeling. If I had to rely on my feelings then I wouldn't believe. I don't believe because it makes me feel good, I believe because it is the truth and I know God. My foundation is God, christ His crucifixion and ressurection for the forgiveness of my sin. That doesn't make me fanatical just a christian. When I was in college I was in gross sin and that is one of the most painful times of my life. Partly because the image I had about myself was being destroyed and partly because I hated my sin. I hate sin it ruines everything. I hate seeing it in me and I hate the affects it has on this world. If the only difference between you then and you now is your lack of religion then you weren't born again. You were never changed. If you were truly born again then you would be a new creation. Your desires change and slowly or quickly you become more christ like. God doesn't just save us from the wrath of God but also from the hold on sin on our lives. (September 13, 2015 at 3:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: And what makes you think it's "God" speaking to you? God can make His divinity pretty clear. Also everything He has ever told me has been true. Everything He has done has been In His character. Before I ever read the Bible He told me His name and that He was beyond time. He has answered my prayers and the longer I know Him the more I can tell it is Him speaking.
You got all that from impressions and ideas?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
September 13, 2015 at 4:53 pm
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(September 13, 2015 at 3:29 pm)Rekeisha Wrote:That's like claiming that there was only one detective and he was Sherlock Holmes.(September 13, 2015 at 1:42 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: There's a God character in the Koran. Why don't you believe in it since it's supposed to be the same one as the biblical God? After all, they are both ethnocentric Middle Eastern desert deities. BTW, you may want to verify your word usage. "Reviled" is not the same as "revealed".
To be fair, though, the "God" character in that book does come off as needing to be reviled.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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