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artgnome - 2005-03-25 12:19:18
awesome post, my friend! I will go check out your pastor's take on it. And I will colour an easter egg just for you! thanks for using my new comments section too!
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oomm - 2005-03-25 12:35:41
Beautiful and eloquent. Here's my question for you, what do you do when people tell you something is a sin but you just can't believe that it could be? How far do you trust the words of the humans that wrote the bible to be accurate to the true desire of God and how do you know when you are manipulating the truth to fit your sin apart from when you honestly beleive that what you are feeling could not be sinful?
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Crate Obscure - 2005-03-25 12:55:33
ag - Thanks! It's good to know that some egg will be defaced for me! <br><br> Oomm - Thank you! Also, you have hit the nail on the head. <blockquote> How far do you trust the words of the humans that wrote the bible to be accurate to the true desire of God </blockquote> <br><br> This is <i>the</i> central issue. If our knowledge of God comes from a seriously flawed source, well, that doesn't leave us in a good position epistemologically. <br><br> All I can tell you is my own experience. When I came to the bible, even after I became a Christian, I was very skeptical of it. However, I prayed and humbled myself and told God that I needed to know His will and that I was ready to do it no matter what it was. I didn't set out to convince myself that the bible was accurate, but when I approached it prayerfully and with humility, it became self-evident to me that it was God's word. <br><br> I could find and show you arguments from apologists and theologians through the centuries and I could find some great contemporary scholars who have impressive archeological and historical-linguistic insights, but none of this really convinces anyone. Sadly, the only evidence I can offer is my own experience and my faith that if you seek God's will with humility and an open heart, you will learn to hear and recognize His voice. <br><br> I wish I hadn't decided to lay off the religiousness on my page, because I would love to write a whole entry on this theme! Oomm, can you ask this question again around Christmas? By then people wont be so sick of my hollerin' and my holy-rollin' and my crazy tongue speakin'! <br><br> But seriously, I promise you an email with a more detailed response. It may be a day or two in coming, as I've got a million things going on this weekend, but it will come. <br><br> And unless anyone has any pressing questions, this will be my last bit of theology on my page for a little while. Next time, it's gonna be Velveeta, I promise!
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oomm - 2005-03-25 15:14:05
Well, I'll leave you with this and look forward to the email: I have prayed that very thing. I have prayed for God to show me what was truly right and to turn my heart in that direction and that if He let me know that what I felt had to be right was wrong I would do all I could to avoid it. But nothing changed. I pray on it all the time, but in my heart I still feel it's right, so is it really okay, even though the bible says it's not, or am I just not listening hard enough? Okay, theology done. I'm really looking forward to that velveeta entry so it better be good.
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Crate - 2005-03-25 15:21:11
I look forward to continuing this discussion via email. And I will endeavour to make the Velveeta(tm) entry as entertaining as possible. I'm worried that I have not only over sold it, but overemphasized the role which Velveeta(tm) with actually play in it. But there is nothing we can do but wait and see.
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oomm - 2005-03-25 15:36:34
if you get stuck there's always this: http://www.kraftfoods.com/velveeta/main.aspx?s=&m=ask_velveeta&brand=velveeta
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Beth - 2005-03-28 08:37:53
Wow. You must be good, because I just read every word of an entry about religion. The question oomm asked is the one that keeps me wary, so if you wanted to write an entry on it I for one would be all ears (or eyes, I guess). I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend.
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Crate - 2005-03-28 08:46:00
Thanks, Beth! That is enough to give me a smile on a Monday morning! Easter was great. More detail later.
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