RE: Is it a constant struggle to keep believing?
December 24, 2013 at 3:50 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2013 at 3:54 am by Drich.)
(December 23, 2013 at 11:56 am)tokutter Wrote:not a contradiction. Paul identifies this condition in Romans 7 by saying we are slaves to sin.(December 23, 2013 at 11:11 am)Drich Wrote: I found it harder to follow my faith when things are too good/easy. Even so i never doubt that thier is a God. why? Because when we Ask/Seek/knock for the Holy Spirit, The Spirit literally lives with in you. It is hard to doubt God when you have to deal with Him daily.
Yet another contradiction
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14 We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not. I am so human. Sin rules me as if I were its slave. 15 I don’t understand why I act the way I do. I don’t do the good I want to do, and I do the evil I hate. 16 And if I don’t want to do what I do, that means I agree that the law is good. 17 But I am not really the one doing the evil. It is sin living in me that does it. 18 Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual. I want to do what is good, but I don’t do it. 19 I don’t do the good that I want to do. I do the evil that I don’t want to do. 20 So if I do what I don’t want to do, then I am not really the one doing it. It is the sin living in me that does it.
21 So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me. 22 In my mind I am happy with God’s law. 23 But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner. 24 What a miserable person I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death? 25 I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.
So long as we live this life we according to Paul will serve our master sin, even if we are able to acknowledge God.
(December 23, 2013 at 11:58 am)FreeTony Wrote:(December 23, 2013 at 11:11 am)Drich Wrote: I found it harder to follow my faith when things are too good/easy. Even so i never doubt that thier is a God. why? Because when we Ask/Seek/knock for the Holy Spirit, The Spirit literally lives with in you. It is hard to doubt God when you have to deal with Him daily.
This ties in with study I read a while back (I'm trying to find it but can't at atm). People tend to be more religious in bad times, I guess in desperation.
So you never think "Is this actually God creating this feeling inside my brain, rather than just the brain itself"?
No. The Holy Spirit acts and gives revelation apart from what we can initially understand. How could this be possible if the Spirit was a manifestation of ones own thoughts?
(December 23, 2013 at 7:30 pm)Ksa Wrote:(December 23, 2013 at 11:11 am)Drich Wrote: I found it harder to follow my faith when things are too good/easy. Even so i never doubt that thier is a God. why? Because when we Ask/Seek/knock for the Holy Spirit, The Spirit literally lives with in you. It is hard to doubt God when you have to deal with Him daily.
It's hard to hold on to your fake faith when the Qur'an clearly mentions in Surat An-Nisā' 4:171 that Jesus was never killed nor crucified. You know the Muslims wouldn't make such affirmation unless it was true
Still worshiping men and stones? You disappoint me Drich.
I still can't wrap my head around it, the phrase son of man is so often mentioned in the Bible...and you still think Jesus was God. Son of MAN son of MAN.
Are you still pretending to be an atheist while you quote from your holy book?
