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[I.O.U]

You should join us as there are many here that love to argue...and argue...and, well, you get my point.

Who are you posting this to?

 

[Truman]

As for me, I like coffee...and singing to God, because when I do, I enjoy His supernatural presence and the anointing that He's put on me, and this is better than anything this world has to offer.

 

[Truman]

Who are you posting this to?

You...you got a problem with that? Lol I'm just being facetious.
Life is hard...life is painful...and then you die.
At least it is for me. I'm not alone.

 

[marks]

None of your God's are worth it for me to put up with the human condition.

There's the heart of the matter. God offers to lift you out of "the human condition". There is a life in God that is inconceivable to those who don't have it.

Much love!

 

[marks]

Belief in God is not enough to be sanctified and protected and receive salvation. Even the demons believe and tremble.

Another very true statement.

You must be born again.

Much love!

 

[Truman]

Putting up with the human condition...like we have a choice.
Being saved from myself is what I'm about!

 

[Mantis]

When I was a teenager, and not on drugs or into the occult, I woke up to see the gray shadow outline of a figure standing by my bed - just like the shadow of a person, minus the person.

I instinctively pulled the cover over my head and asked God to make it go away.

That was the only time this happened, and I didn’t know until decades after that, that people all over the earth see such shadow figures.

I had one sit on my chest and tried to choke me in one of three sleep paralysis incidents before I was a Christian (there was no meth involved lol). Those things are very real. Science tries to explain it away with a scientific explanation but if it happens to you, you know they are real. Very real. They feed on fear. If you are not afraid of them they have no power. I was so freaked out by that experience I started researching it and found out that it has been going on since after the flood. Disembodies evil spirits. I have had no more of these experiences since I became a Christian.

I didn't really want to comment on this thread again but I was reading through it trying to figure out why atheists come to Christian websites to try to upset people. It just baffles my mind, the hate that people have these days.

 

[I.O.U]

As for me, I like coffee...and singing to God, because when I do, I enjoy His supernatural presence and the anointing that He's put on me, and this is better than anything this world has to offer.

Exactly what a belief does. Religion is not the opium of the masses. Belief is. There are no different effects in your case than a workaholic who gets up early, has their coffee, then goes straight to work. There are many things we do in this life that our brain reward us for, but some people (Maybe many now) buy into a belief to increase their chances for feeling that chemical reward.

 

[I.O.U]

You...you got a problem with that? Lol I'm just being facetious.
Life is hard...life is painful...and then you die.
At least it is for me. I'm not alone.

Why is life painful?

 

[Truman]

Exactly what a belief does. Religion is not the opium of the masses. Belief is. There are no different effects in your case than a workaholic who gets up early, has their coffee, then goes straight to work. There are many things we do in this life that our brain reward us for, but some people (Maybe many now) buy into a belief to increase their chances for feeling that chemical reward.

I'm starting to see that I'm trying to describe the light to someone who was born without eyes.

 

[Truman]

Why is life painful?

At one point perfection was contaminated.

 

[I.O.U]

I'm starting to see that I'm trying to describe the light to someone who was born without eyes.

Dubunk my opinion with a equally valid argument for your belief, that's all that matters.

 

[marks]

Exactly what a belief does. Religion is not the opium of the masses. Belief is. There are no different effects in your case than a workaholic who gets up early, has their coffee, then goes straight to work. There are many things we do in this life that our brain reward us for, but some people (Maybe many now) buy into a belief to increase their chances for feeling that chemical reward.

While that may be true, Christianity is not merely a belief system. Christianity is to be changed in your fundamental nature so that you become related by birth to the Creator.

Much love!

 

[I.O.U]

At one point perfection was contaminated.

Actually, the biblical account of creation never tells us that God created the universe in a perfect state.

 

[marks]

Why is life painful?

So it won't be fulfilling, and you won't be content.

Much love!

 

[I.O.U]

While that may be true, Christianity is not merely a belief system. Christianity is to be changed in your fundamental nature so that you become related by birth to the Creator.

Much love!

You can still do that without a primary belief system.

 

[Truman]

Dubunk my opinion with a equally valid argument for your belief, that's all that matters.

Jeremiah 5:21

 

[Mantis]

Why would anyone waste anytime with Christianity if it wasn't real? I wouldn't.

 

[marks]

You can still do that without a primary belief system.

You can't do that. God does that. You don't birth yourself.

Much love!

 

[I.O.U]

Why would anyone waste anytime with Christianity if it wasn't real? I wouldn't.

Because I used to believe, I didn't really know then what I know now.