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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(September 18, 2015 at 9:19 am)Rekeisha Wrote: So hoe did I not answer your question?

Because earlier you said:

(September 13, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Rekeisha Wrote:
(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.

and that this "God"

(September 14, 2015 at 9:03 am)Rekeisha Wrote: ... is able to use my brain, circumstance, people and the world around me to communicate to me.

So you knew it was this "God" speaking to you even before you read the book. Which is very odd, because you went on to cite the book as "the revealed word of God"; and after I asked why you switched subjects, from your dreams and impressions to a book of mythology, you started telling me that

(September 16, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: God's words are not contradictory and His purposes are the same no matter what way He communicates. He has developed the Bible as an easy source to find His words and I have that avalible to me. So I am accountable for knowing what He days through His word.

So I ask again: before you read the book, how did you know that it was the god of that book 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.'
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work - by Cyberman - September 18, 2015 at 5:50 pm

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