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Why i became a protestant Christian

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Why i became a protestant Christian
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RE: Why i became a protestant Christian
January 31, 2017 at 6:10 pm
(January 31, 2017 at 5:54 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:
(January 31, 2017 at 4:49 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Yeah, but I hear they had to exorcise a goat to do it.

Every good thing in my life involved a goat.

No, I don't want to talk about it.   Dodgy

One you go alpaca, you never go backa'
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RE: Why i became a protestant Christian
February 1, 2017 at 5:56 pm
(January 31, 2017 at 6:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(January 31, 2017 at 5:54 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Every good thing in my life involved a goat.

No, I don't want to talk about it.   Dodgy

One you go alpaca, you never go backa'

Careful, Chad.  Alpacas are well known to have embraced Liberation Theology.
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RE: Why i became a protestant Christian
February 16, 2017 at 4:46 pm (This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 4:47 pm by Lek.)
Sounds to me like you don't have good reasons to believe.  Rather than presenting your questions to a group of atheists, you should present them to the pastor of your church or to other believing christians, or to both.  You should believe because you have sought after God and that he has convinced you of his existence and the truth of christianity.  Christianity is not about believing because you're afraid to go to hell, but rather about knowing, loving and serving God.
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RE: Why i became a protestant Christian
February 16, 2017 at 4:55 pm
(February 16, 2017 at 4:46 pm)Lek Wrote: Sounds to me like you don't have good reasons to believe.  Rather than presenting your questions to a group of atheists, you should present them to the pastor of your church or to other believing christians, or to both.  You should believe because you have sought after God and that he has convinced you of his existence and the truth of christianity.  Christianity is not about believing because you're afraid to go to hell, but rather about knowing, loving and serving God.

Yet the threat of hell is one of the most used recruitment tactic among many congregations.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Why i became a protestant Christian
February 16, 2017 at 5:49 pm
(February 16, 2017 at 4:55 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(February 16, 2017 at 4:46 pm)Lek Wrote: Sounds to me like you don't have good reasons to believe.  Rather than presenting your questions to a group of atheists, you should present them to the pastor of your church or to other believing christians, or to both.  You should believe because you have sought after God and that he has convinced you of his existence and the truth of christianity.  Christianity is not about believing because you're afraid to go to hell, but rather about knowing, loving and serving God.

Yet the threat of hell is one of the most used recruitment tactic among many congregations.

Yep.
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