Divine Inspiration

[Darkstar]

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Then why do we need to confess to god at all? Wouldn't he already know?

Religion says that. The bible say we must repent from our sins. To repent is not to 'confess' or even stop sinning.. It is the turning from a want to sin or desire to not sin. That and forgiving others are the two big changes we have to strive to make in our lives. that means we must openly and honestly identify all sins in our lives, so we can turn from them.

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We wouldn't need to know of god to feel guilt and turn away from immoral acts. If we did, it wouldn't really be sincere.

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If that is true, then belief and worship shouldn't be necessary. If our heart is in the right place, it shouldn't matter.

If your heart is truly in the right place you can not help But to believe and worship (Speaking from experience) Your heart will learn to ache to worship and show your belief.

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Then I guess I'm a terrible person because I don't believe. Unless by 'in the right place' you mean possesing a strong confirmation bias for god, rather than being a good person.

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The hell thing was just a general statement. You felt empty and needed something to fill the void: god. The thing is, A/S/K sometimes creates the illusion of actually working because if people try hard enough and for long enough, they can will themselves into believing almost anything.

Only for a time.

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Confirmation bias can perpetuate it, especially because god works in 'mysterious' ways, so you don't really need something specific for it to be a sign.

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A dream or vague emotion that would be written off as completely normal is then interpreted as a sign from god. However, an unambiguous sign (outside a dream, and dreams to to contain images and ideas that are on one's own mind) will never manifest.

Messenger/Message is a thread i did sharing one such 'unambiguous sign."

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Now, I'm not going to accuse you of lying, but there are still some things from that thread that are worth noting. Not only were the predictions given fairly vague, but they could have become self-fulfilling prophecies (ex. "He told me of comming prosperity, but not for my benfit so I could live in luxuary, but so I could help others.(Which I am doing)" could be that you are giving money because he said you would, or that he was simply offering advice). Memory is a funny thing, you could have accidentally filled in his predictions with things that had already happened. Also, why would he introduce himself as a psychic instead of an angel? If the event seems real to you, you probably think I'm just being too suspicious, but if I told you a similar story, but replaced the word god with the word satan, you might understand where I'm coming from. Also, why is it that individual people say that they've had experiences with god that bettered their lives, when all of the starving children in Africa are completely ignored?

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So you seem confident that the kid got an actual message from god, then. So tell me this: every year there are people who kill someone and claim that god told them it had to be done. They are disbelieved only on the account that their act was violent. If they claimed that god had told them to do something else, they would have been believed. How do you know that they really didn't take out one of satan's minions for god? I bet you'll say they didn't, but then why is their story not believeable? They have just as much evidence as you do.

Because the message they Got does not coinside with what the Holy Spirit has revealed in the bible. We are told that God will not contradict Himself by giving you a command that countermands scripture. there are many deceiving spirits who claim to be God. (That is how many 'prophets' believe they have talked with God.) When I took my experience and looked up someof the things i experienced they were confirmed by the bible, and did not contradict what was written.

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God orders several genocides in the bible, so that isn't really a contradiction.

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There was a thread on which of god's attributes were actually put into humans, and which weren't. I don't believe that this would fall into that category. http://atheistforums.org/thread-15028.ht...e+a+retard
Also, you may have had an inkling that it would end badly, but you didn't know it for a fact.

after 5 years of this you know. without doubt.

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Oh.

But; does god make mistakes? If yes, then he isn't perfect. If no, then why was he disappointed if he planned it all along?

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Creating humans only to kill 99.9%+ of them is on a whole other level from what you said.

was it only humans God killed?

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Well...the animals were supposed to be saved. I guess he killed some plants...