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Hello ana hope your weekend was fun and relaxing.![]()
Im glad you asked. This is such an important matter.
Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. The Spirit is also called the Comforter and the One called alongside to help.
I was in church a while ago and two Spirit filled ladies prayed with me, and 'laid hands' on me. This all happened during the day between 10-11am while seated on a chair. While we were praying together and they were centered around me. I found myself in the Spirit.
I went into a vision and found myself flying in the sky. I could feel the air in my face and at first i was alarmed. Once i got over my surprise and went with it, i noticed a volcano in the distance. I was soaring into it.
Just as i reached the mouth and was about to fall in, i cried out Jesus! (Save me!). I was caught in the air and rose out. After this i continued to fly for a bit when suddenly the scene changed.
I saw 3 human like forms together. Each was overlapping the others yet it was one entity. I noticed the middle was larger. There was fire everywhere and i could hear to crackle and hissing of flame.
This is my experience and not everyone has the same. I was givin the Gift of the Holy Spirit. I had faith in Jesus and was given the evidence of the Spirit.
If you will ask Him. God Himself in person of the Holy Spirit will come down to you and can be your guide, and will live with you as your friend, if you agree and if you first accept Jesus into your heart.
The Bible says that there is a friend which is closer to you than a brother.
'One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.'
When life is hard and you are struggling, God can be your strength and you can have the knowledge that He knows what you are going through. Both the good and the bad.
All you have to do is admit that you cannot go it alone and ask God to help you. This is not weakness to admit that help is needed, it us strength.
Please excuse me but you do care. If you didnt care you wouldnt have replied to my post.![]()
Facts and truth are not the same thing. Facts can be scientifically verified and truth is where the facts lead us.
Suppose one night you find a dead body. There is a knife sticking out of its back and a pool of blood. Those are facts. One could say the truth is this is a murder.
You look at the facts and you arrive at the truth. Faith is when you know even if you cannot prove it to someone else.
This is the dictionairy meaning of faith.
faith
feɪθ/
noun
1
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complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
"this restores one's faith in politicians"
synonyms:trust, belief, confidence, conviction,credence, reliance, dependence;More
2
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strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
"bereaved people who have shown supreme faith"
synonyms:religion, church, sect, denomination,persuasion, religious persuasion,religious belief, belief, code of belief,ideology, creed, teaching, dogma,doctrine
"she gave her life for her faith"
Im not too sure what you mean here? Please clarify.
My post on emotions was a reply to your post about emotions and logic.
Please excuse me.
You dont have to continue. You can either agree with what i say, disagree with what i say or accept that this is the Christian position and go on with your atheist journey.![]()
You seem to be a materialist who wants to discuss spiritual matters through science. You wont get the proof you require. Im sorry.
Have you considered that you are using the wrong methods and you wont accept the correct ones. Science is about facts, God is about truth. God invented science which you are trying to use to prove He does not exist.
Why would God create science only to be bound by it? This is like a bricklayer building a house and then bricking himself in.
God wants to work with us, like partners, not as slaves. God will not force you to be in the kingdom of Heaven.
Believing leads to faith leads to knowing leads to proof.
Faith is the way to get the proof of God. God will not do it through scientific means. God has decided it was to be this way and He has told us through His teachings - a book written by 40 ppl inspired by God.
How does Atheism be a fulfillment to one's life when it denies the loving God.
So did he think.....
He didn't die. There's been zero instances of dead people coming back to life.
Even from an atheistic perspective that is not true, as there is no precise definition of the border between life and death.
It's nothing to do with fulfilment. I get my fulfilment from living my life.How does Atheism be a fulfillment to one's life when it denies the loving God.
Even from an atheistic perspective that is not true, as there is no precise definition of the border between life and death.
It's nothing to do with fulfilment. I get my fulfilment from living my life.
Atheism is not about fulfilment.
He didn't die. There's been zero instances of dead people coming back to life.
I don't think it is a specific statement of belief in a religious sense but in essence I get fulfilment from living my life.So your personal statement of belief is that you get fulfillment from living your life, is that right?
Anyone can claim to be a witness and or write stories. The question is, what evidence do they have, besides personal interpretation?What has that to do with determining factual accounts from witnesses of fact?
Your statement is deflectory and irrational and illogical.
2/3 are not witnesses of fact, just like not everyone witnesses the same car accident, witnesses the same events dynamically happening around the world all the time.
Your premise is that since Jack was sitting at home in England watching football and Tom happened to get married in the US, hence 99.999% of the world don't believe nor consider that Jack is watching football and Tom is getting married and so according to your logic, these witnesses and events never happened, right?
Wrong!
Let me make a statement of my own as a response to what you have revealed about your thoughts.....
If 99.999999% of the world were witnesses to God, you would still reject them as witnesses of fact!
Please tell me that I'm wrong....
Any thoughts?
I disagree with everything you have posted.Words still mean what they mean and you must own up to your statements.
You said.....
"You get fulfillment from living your life"
This is a relativistic statement of belief.
Just agree with what you said!
This means that what ever happens to you whilst living your life, should therefore be in all honesty and sincerity on your behalf be fulfilling to you, is that right?
In any case, what ever emotions or adversity that falls upon you, must be a fulfillment to you, because you live life and this is fulfillment to you, right?
In this regard, the life you live is your god and you tell me that you don't believe in god?![]()
Do you see that your statement is your personal statement of belief and has nothing to do with logical findings through expert witnesses and witnesses of fact.
The clinical doctor pronounced the time of death as an expert witness of fact and the subject as the second witness also acknowledged what the clinical doctor established and both tgeir statements corroborated with one another.
Your hearsay statement is nothing more than hearsay, it is inadmissible in a court of law, for the fact that you were not there and you certainly wasn't a witness.
To make a hearsay statement without evidence, is another blanket statement that forms your statement of belief dogma.
In establishing factual scientific and observable facts by the expert witness like the clinical doctor and corroborated with the subject who died, there are two witnesses that verify a true account of what happened.
Why are you as a none witness of fact blatantly rejecting truth and pushing your statement of belief?
It is very irrational and illogical on your part to reject truth.
God doesn't exist is your statement of belief that you dogmatically defend.
That is your belief, but to make a relativistic statement like.....
"we are living our lives as honestly as we can."
Doesn't really mean anything because there are no reference markers to who sets the bar for honesty for you and who holds you accoubtable in ensuring you stay honest.