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Old 06-23-2012, 10:19 AM   #316
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i assume you know these real questions and have already asked them, would be nice if you shared what these real questions are
I don't think I'm supposed to even if I'd wrote them all down.

Compare the Bereans with the Thessalonians. The NT says the Bereans were more noble though they're both Christians.

The Bereans were more noble because they took all their questions to God by checking the scriptures.

That's how you build a knowledge of God and a relationship with Him.

Hearing in church can only get you so far. The scriptures cover more details than a sermon ever can.
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Old 06-23-2012, 11:41 AM   #317
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i assume you know these real questions and have already asked them, would be nice if you shared what these real questions are
Btw, philosophy asks a lot of misleading questions because quite a few philosophers conclude God is unknowable.

So doesn't that make God's revealing of Himself in his Word like a personal introduction?

The NT says in several places that the way to know spiritual things isn't through philosophy. Philosophy can lead you all over the place except the place where God wants you to start from.

Philosophy might start you questioning but it can't get you the answers.

For answers you need the bible.
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Old 06-23-2012, 11:52 AM   #318
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Philosophy might start you questioning but it can't get you the answers.

For answers you need the bible.
Quoting again to make sure this little gem doesn't go missing. Splendour sure is knocking them out of the park lately.
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Old 06-23-2012, 12:10 PM   #319
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Btw, philosophy asks a lot of misleading questions because quite a few philosophers conclude God is unknowable.

So doesn't that make God's revealing of Himself in his Word like a personal introduction?

The NT says in several places that the way to know spiritual things isn't through philosophy. Philosophy can lead you all over the place except the place where God wants you to start from.

Philosophy might start you questioning but it can't get you the answers.

For answers you need the bible.
You seem fairly confident that you have the answers from the bible, but you also say you don't know if you know all of the real questions.

How can you know the answers without first knowing all the questions to ask?
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Old 06-23-2012, 12:22 PM   #320
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i assume you know these real questions and have already asked them, would be nice if you shared what these real questions are
Who am I?
What am I?

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Isn't that The foundational question?

I'll expand further if you wish.
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Old 06-23-2012, 02:20 PM   #321
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You seem fairly confident that you have the answers from the bible, but you also say you don't know if you know all of the real questions.

How can you know the answers without first knowing all the questions to ask?
I think God gives people many answers through the bible.

This questioning and answering has a shaping effect on people that this ability to approach God personally through the bible fosters so the questions at times are general ones about general human conditions and sometimes they are personally specific ones about our own specific condition.

You could take a look at the book of Job where Job questions God and God questions Job and see an example of it.

Your questions might not be identical to Job's but they could be important ones, too and the answers you get will be important to you.

http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Job.html
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Old 06-23-2012, 03:57 PM   #322
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welp, you ignored this so....
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Old 06-23-2012, 06:05 PM   #323
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welp, you ignored this so....
Just forget I mentioned it.
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Old 06-23-2012, 06:15 PM   #324
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Just forget I mentioned it.
The solution to the hard questions in life:

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Old 06-23-2012, 06:54 PM   #325
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...to approach God personally through the bible...
is similar to

...to approach Tom Cruise personally through a biography or watching Mission Impossible...
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Old 06-24-2012, 08:58 AM   #326
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...to approach Tom Cruise personally through a biography or watching Mission Impossible...
I'm sick and tired of these mockers (that renamed themselves atheists) just like God is.

God loved them and did everything for them and they won't give Him the time of day.

You go on aiding and abetting them in their ignorance aj.

But I'm not accomodating your faulty teaching or them.


Psalm 95

Contemporary English Version (CEV)


Worship and Obey the Lord


95 Sing joyful songs to the Lord!
Praise the mighty rock [a]
where we are safe.
2 Come to worship him
with thankful hearts
and songs of praise.


3 The Lord is the greatest God,
king over all other gods.
4 He holds the deepest part
of the earth in his hands,
and the mountain peaks
belong to him.
5 The ocean is the Lord’s
because he made it,
and with his own hands
he formed the dry land.


6 Bow down and worship
the Lord our Creator!
7 The Lord is our God,
and we are his people,
the sheep he takes care of
in his own pasture.


Listen to God’s voice today!
8 Don’t be stubborn and rebel
as your ancestors did
at Meribah and Massah[b]
out in the desert.
9 For forty years
they tested God

and saw
the things he did.
10 Then God got tired of them
and said,
“You never show good sense,
and you don’t understand
what I want you to do.”
11 In his anger, God told them,
“You people will never enter
my place of rest.”
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Old 06-24-2012, 10:04 AM   #327
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As I said before, if that place of rest is filled with people like you Splen, I want to be as far away as possible from there. Sounds like a terrible, boring, crazy place.
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Old 06-24-2012, 10:39 AM   #328
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As I said before, if that place of rest is filled with people like you Splen, I want to be as far away as possible from there. Sounds like a terrible, boring, crazy place.
+1

Just so we're clear...

GOING TO HELL:
Mark Twain
Ben Franklin
Christopher Hitchens
Carl Sagan
George Carlin
Col. Robert Ingersoll
John Lennon
Albert Einstein
Pat Tillman
Ernest Hemmingway
Kurt Vonnegut
Frank Sinatra
Woody Allen
Hugh Hefner
Rodney Dangerfield
Penn & Teller
Ricky Gervais

GOING TO HEAVEN:

Jerry Fallwell
Pat Robertson
Ted Haggard
Rick Santorum
Everyone in the Bible

Yeah, I'd rather go to hell...
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Old 06-24-2012, 10:57 AM   #329
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I'm sick and tired of these mockers (that renamed themselves atheists) just like God is.
Your speaking for God now?
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Old 06-24-2012, 11:46 AM   #330
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Someone PM me when Coach gets the train back on the tracks.
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