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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
April 29, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Speaking things into existence is magic. Bringing the dead back to life by telling a corpse to rise again is magic. What elose would you call it?
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
May 2, 2015 at 12:05 pm
What is the difference between magical and supernatural forces?
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
May 5, 2015 at 11:07 am
magic has to deal with people trying to either trick or entertain other people through slight of hand or other deceptive devices. Or people again trying to control the spirit realm by incantations and deals with spirit beings.
Supernatural is that which is outside and above the natural realm. God controls both the spirit and natural areas and doesn't need to manipulate it because it is all His. So to raise someone from the dead is no magic. To forgive someone for their sins is an even more amazing feat.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
May 5, 2015 at 11:16 am
...what.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
May 5, 2015 at 11:20 am
(May 5, 2015 at 11:07 am)Rekeisha Wrote: magic has to deal with people trying to either trick or entertain other people through slight of hand or other deceptive devices. Or people again trying to control the spirit realm by incantations and deals with spirit beings.
Supernatural is that which is outside and above the natural realm. God controls both the spirit and natural areas and doesn't need to manipulate it because it is all His. So to raise someone from the dead is no magic. To forgive someone for their sins is an even more amazing feat.
Yeah... No - it's all "magic". As in "fantastic". As in "imaginary". As in - "madey-upey".
Except that last one. That's just lame. Call that an "amazing feat"? Watch this:
I forgive you for your sins.
There. Impressed?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
May 5, 2015 at 11:22 am
And Vorlon saw that the pasta was good . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
May 5, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Anyone can forgive people. Most don't demand a life of servitude in exchange for forgiveness.
