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Your Faith is Yours and Yours Alone
This is true whether you are Christian, Wiccan, Atheist, or whatever.
EVERYONE makes choices.
We choose to accept or reject;
To make part of us or not;
To believe or not believe;
To be or not to be.
Each person evaluates what he or she reads, hears, and experiences, and then decisions are made as to what to keep and what to discard.
The criteria for decision making determines most of the decisions made.
Influences such as upbringing, education, role models, and genetics also affect such decision making.
If one says the Bible is the Word of God, facts and events exactly as written, then one will make decisions to keep or discard based on that premise.
Even well written and documented proof that the gospels were written decades after Jesus by anonymous people will be rejected and discarded because it does not meet the accepted premise.
The question is always: how unyielding are your premises?
How firm and unapproachable are your convictions?
If you are too loose with such premises, you are "wishy-washy" and will have trouble ever standing firm on anything.
If your are too tight with them, you run the risk of making decisions on false ideas and thus damaging self and others.
In logic, any conclusion based on an argument in which even one premise is false is an invalid conclusion.
Put these things into your mind when you consider what you believe.
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I'm going to force the mailman to praise Odin at knife point when he comes by today.
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Y'know, at first i thought you were one of these old chrisitans who has the old narrow minded way of seeing things, but now i can see youre not and youre starting to grow on me
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Geist:
I'm going to force the mailman to praise Odin at knife point when he comes by today.
LMAO!!
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Geist:
I'm going to force the mailman to praise Odin at knife point when he comes by today.
They carry Mace for people like you!!
:p
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Whimsical Wendy:
Geist:
I'm going to force the mailman to praise Odin at knife point when he comes by today.
They carry Mace for people like you!!
:p
I have mace too.
I'll get him through the mail slot.
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Well if its mine alone then it is a lie.
To hell with it.
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Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, but not yet seen.
So we wait patiently in hope for our faith to be rewarded.
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Hope for the Prodigals:
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, but not yet seen.
So we wait patiently in hope for our faith to be rewarded.
i dont know if youve heard, perahaps you didnt get the memo, but faith isnt exclusive to christianity
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Hope for the Prodigals:
So we wait gullibly in hope for our faith to be rewarded.
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The question is always: how unyielding are your premises?
How firm and unapproachable are your convictions?
The issue on the other side is the same.
People insist that without rules, man will act nice because man is born nice.
Yet, we must live together.
So, Religion teaches that man is NOT nice, and uses the Bible to support that with ancient opinions from the grave.
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Gunslinger,
I never said that faith was exclusive to my personal relationship with Christ.
I spoke the truth which I believed.
Why then didn't you send me the memo and explain that I wasn't to post my personal belief, like you posted yours?
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Hope for the Prodigals:
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, but not yet seen.
So we wait patiently in hope for our faith to be rewarded.
So you do it for the rewards?
How shallow.
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