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originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
Many people know the Bible few of us truly understand it.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
Many people know the Bible few of us truly understand it.
Are you saying that I don't understand it?
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
Well, I don't believe in your definition of God. But if I'm wrong...
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
And I have zero indication...
SID: Now there’s something I don’t understand. Did the car actually hit you? Were you injured?
GARY: No, I walked right out in the middle of the highway. A car literally, I remember it. I thought… I don’t know what happened. I thought I hit the car. I don’t know what I did but I was on the side and I just kept on running. ...the only thing I know of that car, I had to have gone through that car because I remember seeing her face. She saw mine on the windshield, and the next thing I knew, I was standing on the side of that road; and she was parked, just shaken because she was a State psychologist. She worked at the mental hospital and knew anybody with this shirt on and that hair had to be escaping.
SID: And you explained that you did escape, but you had just become a Christian; your mind that was finished; totally messed up; all of a sudden was clear.
GARY: Totally clear.
GARY: As it turned out about, oh my goodness, 12 or 15 years later,I’m pastoring a church in Delaware and this lady’s hearing my testimony. She’s one of the parishioners in a church; she said “I was the woman that was driving that car.I worked at the mental hospital that day that you escaped.” And she said “This guy with long red hair, beard, and piercing blue eyes came right up on my windshield. I looked at him, she thought she ran over me; pulled off the side of the road; and God spoke to her: “do not call the police. He is mine.”
originally posted by: Murgatroid
FACT, You ARE wrong...
GARY: I don’t know what happened.
But if one can't depend on an atheist to be in stark, cold, pseudo-scientific, techno-draped hostility to all that is Godly and remotely spiritual . . . then . . .
what's the world coming to?
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: AfterInfinity
In many respects, I knew that 40+ years ago.
When I contacted M M OHair because of my involvement with atheists in my dissertation . . . she sent me a copy of the AMERICAN ATHEIST, I think it was.
I was SHOCKED.
All I had to do was change a few key words and phrases and it READ LIKE A PENTECOSTAL CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTIC magazine.
I was stunned.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: AfterInfinity
I don't know if I still have that box or not. Probably not.
A library might have such an old subscription.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
Seems like you're turning you "spiritual atheist" thread into a bible study, so I'll take my leave. I got enough of that as a kid.
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
Some of you might want to sign up for something different
I have often seen the ridicule and hatred of the Biblical text, but this course takes us through past present and future, something that I always thought were lacking in the church.
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studied and debated on ATS, maybe lol
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: AfterInfinity
You probably have almost negative data on the depth and breadth of my capacity for empathy.
However, empathy does not equal agreement on a given perspective etc.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: Stormdancer777
I do not hate the biblical text. I actually love a lot of what the bible has to say and use it in my life. I just don't believe it was divinely inspired.
Seems like you're turning you "spiritual atheist" thread into a bible study, so I'll take my leave. I got enough of that as a kid.