If you claim to believe in the Christian god, but do not follow or believe in the practices of any church, and have your own unique perspective of this God, how can you distinguish this from a god you have simply made up?
In other words, how can you know your beliefs about God are better than a churches?
In other words, how do you know, of all the perspectives and interpretations of God, your's are correct? Or that God is what you have imagined?
And if not, how do you justify inventing or imagining a God in defiance of the certainly greater wisdom of a congregation?
If you are wrong, is it not CERTAINLY blasphemy to invent details of God you have no basis for believing are true?
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Post #42[Replying to JehovahsWitness in post #20]
What remains curious to you, has answered all my possible questions.
As stated, good talk.
What remains curious to you, has answered all my possible questions.
As stated, good talk.
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Post #43Sorry, I was not explicit.tam wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:26 pmWhat are you talking about? I answered both of your questions.Willum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:24 pm [Replying to tam in post #35]
Your evasion of both questions had convinced me definitively of your faith.
Good talk.
Peace again.
Myself and others pointed out contradictions, and these did not phase you at all.
You exasperated us with your inability to grasp the contradictions, leading us to definitive conclusions.
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Post #44I distinguish them by looking what the Bible tells. If Church says something that is in contradiction with the Bible, I reject it.
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Post #45I am sorry, but how do you know it is only your limited scope that tells you the church contradicts the Bible?
Your PERSONAL opinion, even from your own perspective, must allow you to acknowledge you are more likely to be wrong than a congregation.
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Post #46I don't think 'inability' is the correct term. Maybe disregarding would be more apt? It's nothing new within christianity: disregard what you don't agree with and latch on to what you do, then pontificate about it ad nauseam. People can't be fully faulted for this - it's what's taught to them through indoctrination. Hopefully, that wasn't a 'blanket statement'.Willum wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:49 amSorry, I was not explicit.tam wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:26 pmWhat are you talking about? I answered both of your questions.Willum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:24 pm [Replying to tam in post #35]
Your evasion of both questions had convinced me definitively of your faith.
Good talk.
Peace again.
Myself and others pointed out contradictions, and these did not phase you at all.
You exasperated us with your inability to grasp the contradictions, leading us to definitive conclusions.
Have a great, potentially godless, day!
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Post #47Peace to you,
All I have seen are people demanding support for the things I said (which support was given) and then leaving (or veering off into some new tactic) when that same request was made of them and their claims. Please note that I questioned you on your claims as well, and those questions have gone ignored and unanswered:
viewtopic.php?p=1075853#p1075853
Looking back through the thread, the following is something I find absurd:
Please note that there was absolutely no evidence offered for the accusation that you decided to agree with. And though this may not apply to someone who does not profess to be Christian, for someone who does profess to be Christian, to admit that Christ is indeed being quoted, but then dismissing His words... that is something I find absurd (and sad).
You (and others) being unable to understand how I (and others) can know Christ and so also His Father... <- this is not a contradiction. It is just a lack of understanding and/or a lack of faith from those who do not think a person can truly know Christ, so as to truly know His Father as well. And a person can test the inspired expressions: against Christ (if indeed one can hear His voice, ASK Him for the truth of a matter, and ask for ears to hear if you want to hear His voice so as to hear the truth), against love (God is love and nothing from Him will be against love), and one can also look to what is written if one needs to SEE it (beginning with what Christ has said in what is written, since He is the One to whom God told us to listen).
Peace again to you, and to you all,
your servant and a slave of Christ,
tammy
Please name these contradictions that you claim you and others pointed out.Willum wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:49 amSorry, I was not explicit.tam wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:26 pmWhat are you talking about? I answered both of your questions.Willum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:24 pm [Replying to tam in post #35]
Your evasion of both questions had convinced me definitively of your faith.
Good talk.
Peace again.
Myself and others pointed out contradictions, and these did not phase you at all.
You exasperated us with your inability to grasp the contradictions, leading us to definitive conclusions.
All I have seen are people demanding support for the things I said (which support was given) and then leaving (or veering off into some new tactic) when that same request was made of them and their claims. Please note that I questioned you on your claims as well, and those questions have gone ignored and unanswered:
viewtopic.php?p=1075853#p1075853
Looking back through the thread, the following is something I find absurd:
Please note that there was absolutely no evidence offered for the accusation that you decided to agree with. And though this may not apply to someone who does not profess to be Christian, for someone who does profess to be Christian, to admit that Christ is indeed being quoted, but then dismissing His words... that is something I find absurd (and sad).
You (and others) being unable to understand how I (and others) can know Christ and so also His Father... <- this is not a contradiction. It is just a lack of understanding and/or a lack of faith from those who do not think a person can truly know Christ, so as to truly know His Father as well. And a person can test the inspired expressions: against Christ (if indeed one can hear His voice, ASK Him for the truth of a matter, and ask for ears to hear if you want to hear His voice so as to hear the truth), against love (God is love and nothing from Him will be against love), and one can also look to what is written if one needs to SEE it (beginning with what Christ has said in what is written, since He is the One to whom God told us to listen).
Peace again to you, and to you all,
your servant and a slave of Christ,
tammy
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Post #48Obviously someone like you could make such a claim.
But also someone of a different denomination.
And also someone who was insane, could make the same claims.
No outside observer will be able to tell the difference.
But also someone of a different denomination.
And also someone who was insane, could make the same claims.
No outside observer will be able to tell the difference.
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Post #49I don't care! I'm still right and I'm not even going to let your words sink in! Nah nah nah boo boo!
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Post #50Peace to you.
That is what I answered.
Peace again to you.
Willum, you did not ask 'how can an outside observer know'. In your op, you asked a series of 'how can YOU know' questions.
That is what I answered.
Peace again to you.
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