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The Long and the Short of it.
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RE: The Long and the Short of it.
This is for you, Paul, on the subject of personal experience and the Bible. Smile

1. The lessons in the Bible are ones that can also be learned and believed by examining the real world, adding to the amount of personal evidence I talked about earlier.
2. I learned these lessons on my own after I began to re-evaluate my world view and found them to hold true to what human nature is.
3. I had an experience in which I found what I now believe was what is known as the 'Holy Spirit' inside myself for guidance and strength.
4. I have since had further experiences which I can only attribute to God and the Holy Spirit, as I have learned how to understand what that means.
5. No atheist argument or perspective has been able to satisfyingly explain or attribute these events to anything else other than God.

And for Min:

1. The core difference between your atheistic world-view and my theistic wolrd-view is that I trust in my perception and my senses to tell me the truth.
2. I found that, while atheism was a good stepping stone for doing so, in the long run it did not provide a satisfying or complete world-view.
3. If I were insane, I would expect my insanity to have some sort of negative or anti-beneficial affect on my life and the lives of those around me. It does not, therefore I can affirm for myself that I am not insane.
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The Long and the Short of it. - by Paul the Human - May 15, 2010 at 10:12 am
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