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Maybe I never was a Christian?
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RE: Maybe I never was a Christian?
(September 14, 2012 at 9:54 am)Polaris Wrote:
(September 14, 2012 at 3:50 am)Dumac Dwarfking Wrote: I'd like to know why God would choose to speak through people in a language that they not only don't understand, but has no structure or attributes to qualify it a language at all. Not the most convincing way to argue with us English speaking folk.

Many foreign languages appear to have no structure to Westerners, but they are still legitimate languages nonetheless.

Foreign languages appear to have no structure, but structure becomes evident over time. Repetition of syllables within a certain order, words and context, meaning behind what's being said. No such structure exists when people speak in tongues. Every person will speak it differently. What do you think might be the reason for that? Thinking

Anyone can string together syllables to form something that "might" be a word, it would be far more impressive if that exact stringing of syllables was repeated by a different person with the same meaning behind it.

Suli heph kipta ninsholla Polaris!
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Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 1:59 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by JohnDG - September 14, 2012 at 2:03 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 2:13 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reasonable_Jeff - September 20, 2012 at 7:09 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by jonb - September 20, 2012 at 8:33 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by System of Solace - September 20, 2012 at 6:44 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reasonable_Jeff - September 21, 2012 at 1:48 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Simon Moon - September 22, 2012 at 12:52 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reasonable_Jeff - September 22, 2012 at 1:55 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Creed of Heresy - September 21, 2012 at 8:14 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reasonable_Jeff - September 21, 2012 at 3:07 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reforged - September 22, 2012 at 7:58 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 22, 2012 at 8:05 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reasonable_Jeff - September 22, 2012 at 10:05 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reforged - September 22, 2012 at 9:58 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by JohnDG - September 14, 2012 at 2:18 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Minimalist - September 14, 2012 at 2:24 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 2:24 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Fryslân - September 14, 2012 at 3:29 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Polaris - September 14, 2012 at 3:13 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 3:20 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Polaris - September 14, 2012 at 3:22 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 3:24 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Polaris - September 14, 2012 at 3:26 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 3:32 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Polaris - September 14, 2012 at 3:36 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 3:41 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Creed of Heresy - September 20, 2012 at 3:21 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Tino - September 22, 2012 at 8:04 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Mister Agenda - September 14, 2012 at 9:57 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Tino - September 22, 2012 at 8:06 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by JohnDG - September 14, 2012 at 3:47 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 3:50 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Polaris - September 14, 2012 at 9:54 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 14, 2012 at 10:02 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Polaris - September 14, 2012 at 9:09 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Fryslân - September 14, 2012 at 3:55 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by The Grand Nudger - September 14, 2012 at 8:32 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by jonb - September 14, 2012 at 10:09 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Minimalist - September 14, 2012 at 9:14 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by The Grand Nudger - September 19, 2012 at 6:18 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by FallentoReason - September 19, 2012 at 8:25 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by jonb - September 19, 2012 at 9:06 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by MysticKnight - September 20, 2012 at 12:46 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by genkaus - September 20, 2012 at 2:50 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by MysticKnight - September 20, 2012 at 12:49 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by genkaus - September 20, 2012 at 12:53 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by MysticKnight - September 20, 2012 at 1:02 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by genkaus - September 20, 2012 at 6:43 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reforged - September 21, 2012 at 8:53 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Mister Agenda - September 21, 2012 at 3:21 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by MysticKnight - September 21, 2012 at 3:44 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by genkaus - September 21, 2012 at 3:51 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Creed of Heresy - September 21, 2012 at 9:04 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Dumac Dwarfking - September 22, 2012 at 6:20 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by KichigaiNeko - September 22, 2012 at 7:38 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by jonb - September 22, 2012 at 8:35 am
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2012 at 12:26 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Reasonable_Jeff - September 22, 2012 at 1:19 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by pocaracas - September 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2012 at 9:10 pm
RE: Maybe I never was a Christian? - by Whatkins - September 23, 2012 at 6:40 am

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