RE: Communicating with Him
April 25, 2012 at 1:27 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2012 at 1:35 am by Drich.)
(April 25, 2012 at 1:24 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(April 25, 2012 at 1:17 am)Drich Wrote:(April 25, 2012 at 12:10 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(April 24, 2012 at 12:35 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 24, 2012 at 12:17 pm)Drich Wrote: It begins with the reading and understanding of the bible.Agreed, anything that is personally experienced must conform to scripture. Although, we seem to have a different take on scripture.
To Chad and Drich:
But even within scripture things seem to be so radical. The classic talking burning bush for example. Why doesn't God seem to speak out like that anymore, let alone in my head like my Christian friends?
Once you learn to ask and seek out God, (Through the bible) you will be given a measure of the Holy Spirit to indwell you, and depending on how you use this gift of the Spirit, will determine God's direct involvement in your life and how you are able to perceive this involvement. So in a sense God still does reach out to His people. Most of us however to not understand what is being communicated or how to reach back.
What you seem to not be realizing is that many atheists who come from Christian backgrounds have tried over and over to "ask and seek out God" only to become even more confused and frustrated with scripture and the Christian worldview before ultimately become atheists.
Then the question should be has the person sought God out according to the prescribed path outlined in Luke 11?
If no, then why would anyone expect that they should get a result any different than the one they got?
(April 25, 2012 at 1:27 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Since there are many passages in the bible where god commands his followers to kill in his name you might want to reconsider that statement.
This one?
Quote:For God will never tell someone to do something outside of what has been contextually recorded in the expressed will of God.It means God will never tell anyone to Murder because He has commanded otherwise.
God gives this authority to the state to take life, but not to an individual.
If you think otherwise then please show one example in the NT that Christians are commanded to Murder. If you can not then know you are pulling an example outside of the contextually recorded Law or Expressed Will of God.
(I am looking for book chapter and verse)
