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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 4:30 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 7:51 am)Tino Wrote: And god told you to go to the coffee shop, and you had the temerity to tell god that you were only going to stay long enough to finish your tea? You're telling us that you were in a conversation with God, the entity that you think created you and will judge you, and provide you with eternal life, and instead of being incredibly excited to be speaking with god and doing some task for him, your attitude was "well, only if we can wrap this up before I finish my tea?".
You are absolutely right. I am humbled by your insight. What a great God that even in spite of my unworthiness He condescends to a relationship with me.
I am glad that salvation depends not on my works, but God who has mercy.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Yet another apologist admits they weren't convinced of God because of reason. Hypocrites.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 5:16 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 4:33 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Yet another apologist admits they weren't convinced of God because of reason. Hypocrites.
I never claimed to be convinced by reason, I have posted my conversion story before and it didn't involve months of research but rather a personal encounter with God.
If you wish to you can read about it here - http://www.morethanmorality.blogspot.com...ut-me.html
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 5:16 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: I never claimed to be convinced by reason, I have posted my conversion story before and it didn't involve months of research but rather a personal encounter with God.
There's the problem; you 'found' god through a 'personal encounter' that was most likely something completely different from what you think it was. The fact that you became religious because of a 'personal encounter', and admit that reason does not convince you of god, then maybe you are just too credulous?
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 5:37 pm
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RJ, your testimony is worse than the testimonies of people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. If you accept whatever you think happened to you as proof of God, while being able to offer rational alternatives to whatever happen to people who claimed to have been abducted, or saw bigfoot, or met their doppleganger, or saw ghosts, then you're a hypocrite.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 5:46 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 5:37 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: If you accept whatever you think happened to you as proof of God, while being able to offer rational alternatives to whatever happen to people who claimed to have been abducted, or saw bigfoot, or met their doppleganger, or saw ghosts, then you're a hypocrite.
I've gotten this response before from someone else here. I have only experience from my own life, i have not seen bigfoot or been abducted by aliens in order to compare and contrast the validity of those claims. I am only equipped to speak on matters that I know. Claims like ghosts, etc are beyond the scope of my knowledge right now.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 5:53 pm
I just grew an eight pound strawberry on the Facebook game Farmville 2. Tasted just like your god.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 6:25 pm
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 6:40 pm
You are absolutely right. I am humbled by your insight. What a great God that even in spite of my unworthiness He condescends to a relationship with me.
I am glad that salvation depends not on my works, but God who has mercy.
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Jeff, Sam Harris wrote this in "Letter to a Christian Nation."
Quote:There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe takes an interest in me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward me after death; my current beliefs, drawn from scripture, will remain the best statement of the truth until the end of the world; everyone who disagrees with me will spend eternity in hell. ..
Read it closely. He's talking to YOU.
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RE: Testimony (why not share)
October 17, 2012 at 6:52 pm
(October 17, 2012 at 3:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So somehow you out of all the 7 billion humans magically have the tin foil antenna that allows god to talk to you. And yet, R_J's god had no inclination to speak with the wannabe minister.  I guess little voices in the head are non-transferable.
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