Understanding the bible

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I've said it before, I'll say it again. Ultimatums does not equal 'free will', so will you stop with that already?

NO!

Do you even understand what an ultimatum is? Like, WORSHIP GOD/JESUS AS LORD OR YOU WILL BURN FOR EVER? You know? Demands backed up with threats to be followed in case of noncompliance with your cosmic cretin's plan within the time limit? Ultimatums that cannot be circumvented and override your belief of free will? Hmm. Judging by your insightful posts, apparently not.

I would explain some wonderful things about the holy spirit, but you would need a genuine interest in the subject to actually believe it, we know you all just like playing around, this old hat for you pros.

In other words salty you can't explain jack and are making holy shit up as you go.

What a crap way of you to cover up a web of lies and self-deception. No different from me saying I could tell you some wonderful things about the cosmos but you'll never believe me. Or I could tell you the truth but then I'd have to kill you.

Oh for fuck's sake. Isn't there any single Christian out there who can DEFEND their faith and PROVIDE justification for WHY they believe in the faith that they supposedly have without resorting to childish mind games?

OK enough of that, here's the way I see things when it comes to those who eventually leave Christianity. I do believe there are those who leave and were Christians, however I can not see that they can deny God, Satan does not deny God, these that leave, reject God and His plan for mankind.

I'm not surprised you can't understand the deconversion process. We don't deny any given god's existence that hasn't just been demonstrated. We simply don't believe in a deity. We lack the belief you have. We simply reject your evidence-free claims that there is a god as "insufficient", and "has not met its burden of proof", therefore giving us no good reason to believe.

Those who leave and deny God's existence never really believed, and as you stated, actually had an experience with the Holy Spirit. When one has experienced the Holy Spirit working in their lives it is something unforgettable and undeniable.

Its all in your head kid. Difference between you and us is that we've come to realise the communion of the holey spirit was not supernatural or divine, but nothing more than a simulation in our own minds. Its all brain chemistry.

Now I'm not talking about a lightning strike kind of moment, but a peaceful experience of revelation. The scripture come alive and you see truths revealed that only Christians can understand, unbelievers can not, you understand things which happen in your life are not coincidental, they are God lead.

Yes, yes, yes. We've experienced all that, and bought the T-shirt like you so stop your incessant patronising already. We were Christians, contrary to your bullshit broad-faced assertions.

When active in the church one will find God puts one into positions that are not necessarily comfortable, so God can show one that He is working in one's life. God will show one that He can work His will through one, and that person reaps the joy of what is done. People who experience the Holy Spirit can see God and His wonders through the scriptures, and things He does in their lives

Yes, yes, we already KNOW THIS. You are treading old ground here.

Repenteth means sorrow or sadness, not regret. God was saddened by the depth of man's fall, His love was so great for man and man had left their creator. Yes He knew this great fall was coming, but like I said God's love was so great it still saddened Him, this is how terrible man had become.

A-bloo-bloo-bloo. We sinners will have to remember he's sad WHEN HE'S PUNISHING AND BURNING US IN THE FIRES OF HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY.

Your god's a dick who has the power to fix everything in the blink of an eye, yet chooses not to, because he came up with a crappy plan and to save face has to proceed with it even though he knows the majority of mankind is doomed, his creation has gone to pot, and he fails forever as a god. I can't feel sorry for such a jackass. That's like asking me to feel sorrow for the douchebag who discovers a genie in a lamp and can now wish for anything, like world peace, end to poverty, you name it, but decides to wish for nothing. What a self-absorbed loser.