(October 12, 2012 at 12:59 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: ...
I haven't experienced the other things you've mentioned so I am not equipped to properly compare and contrast them. All that I am prepared to do is speak to my own experiences.
If you are struggling with those issues though I would invite you to pray to God for discernment. But don't ask unless you really want an answer.
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Tried all that stuff before. Never get an answer.
This all just a red herring anyway. God could easily give everyone faith. All he'd have to do is just reveal himself. But no, he's just as silent as all the thousands of other gods in human history.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).