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Originally posted by win 52
reply to post by toasted
The trouble with most pastors is they have been taught by men, which makes their teaching flawed. To practice what you preach is a lost art.
I have read the book, asking for God to help me understand things that confused me. I just kept on reading the verse in context, over and over, asking for enlightenment and guess what .... it was given.
Then I studied with pastors from several popular religions. They did not like some of the questions I asked. I even tried the Saturday worship groups. Some were close to what should be, but the human traits of people always got in the way.
I guess I am still on my own path and not with a group.
Good on you 420 .... is that beer in the tube? Try eating a vegetarian lifestyle. Meat dulls your ability to listen. That is the key..... learn to listen and you will hear.
Originally posted by win 52
reply to post by toasted
The trouble with most pastors is they have been taught by men, which makes their teaching flawed. To practice what you preach is a lost art.
I have read the book, asking for God to help me understand things that confused me. I just kept on reading the verse in context, over and over, asking for enlightenment and guess what .... it was given.
Then I studied with pastors from several popular religions. They did not like some of the questions I asked. I even tried the Saturday worship groups. Some were close to what should be, but the human traits of people always got in the way.
I guess I am still on my own path and not with a group.
Good on you 420 .... is that beer in the tube? Try eating a vegetarian lifestyle. Meat dulls your ability to listen. That is the key..... learn to listen and you will hear.
Originally posted by Melissa101
You know I understand completely. I have yet to find a perfect religion or a perfect Church. It bothers me but I attend a Baptist Church regularly and they are not to far off where I go but it ain't perfect. All we can do is do right by what we read in the Bible. I used to worry that I would burn for going to an unperfect church then I relised no one is perfect that is why Jesus died on the cross to cleance our sins. If we got to heaven throught the church we attend or our works then Jesus would have died in vain. That is how I deal with it.
Originally posted by aorAki
Yes, I am aware of my biases and these are my opinions, but I have YET to see anything that even remotely points towards the existence of god(9).
All I see is people trying to manipulate others.
Originally posted by aorAki
I'm just exercising my right to have a say and to be a dissenter...I thought I made that clear.
bible prophecies are as common as bird poop and much less use, IN MY OPINION.
Originally posted by aorAki
Well, you idiots ( ) need checks and balances otherwise you'll rule the world (oh wait).
So you don't consider it important to have a dissenting opinion? I should just put up and shut up and let you carry on even though I find this #e offensive?
O.k.
Carry on.
You can have your bellchamber back, bellend.
Originally posted by The time lord
Just to add this into the mixer.
I have heard that we are in the last generation and that means from child to grandparent generation of lets say a 70 year lifespan or more. So lets say Restablish of Israel rounded off from
1948 + 70 years a generation = the year roughly is 2018 for the end times.
Originally posted by ancient_wisdom
The reason it is so "accurate" is because Rothschild who created Israel wanted it to seem like a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. It isn't "divine intervention" simply human intervention.
The ONLY, I mean only bible prophecy has to deal with Israel. Research Rothschild formation of Israel and you'll start to suspect just how "divine" this prophecy is. In the same way, the "rapture" will not be a divine work but rather crazy religious people who want prophecy to be revealed so badly they will create it themselves.
You gotta love how extremist christians are so into the bible they feel they have to help God to his final prophecy, as if God couldn't do it on his own.
Originally posted by helen670
Originally posted by ancient_wisdom
The reason it is so "accurate" is because Rothschild who created Israel wanted it to seem like a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. It isn't "divine intervention" simply human intervention.
The ONLY, I mean only bible prophecy has to deal with Israel. Research Rothschild formation of Israel and you'll start to suspect just how "divine" this prophecy is. In the same way, the "rapture" will not be a divine work but rather crazy religious people who want prophecy to be revealed so badly they will create it themselves.
You gotta love how extremist christians are so into the bible they feel they have to help God to his final prophecy, as if God couldn't do it on his own.
Hi Ancient_Wisdom,
Well said!
Exactly, people will sometimes bring out what they want to see happen...Im sure God has other plans!
ICXC NIKA
helen
Originally posted by john124
Yes a quantum state can change due to an observer's effect, but you claimed that the universe could collapse without any observer's. Big difference there!!!
You have misunderstood the uncertainty principle or you have learnt a bull# modified pseudo-scientific version from your pseudo-physics peers.
[edit on 17-8-2009 by john124]
Originally posted by rnaa
Originally posted by john124
Yes a quantum state can change due to an observer's effect, but you claimed that the universe could collapse without any observer's. Big difference there!!!
You have misunderstood the uncertainty principle or you have learnt a bull# modified pseudo-scientific version from your pseudo-physics peers.
[edit on 17-8-2009 by john124]
Sorry to disturb your little party, but...
Pot, meet Kettle.
Quantum states do NOT change due to an observer's effect. Quantum states are UNDEFINED until they are observed.
In other words, there is nothing to change until it is observed, and then it is too late to change anything.
Schroedinger's Cat is neither dead nor alive until you open the box to have a look.
Have both of you "learnt a bull# modified pseudo-scientific version from your pseudo-physics peers"?