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03-04-2011 , 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Splendour
You don't get most of my statements because I try not to speak from my perspective. I try to use Spirit-led reasoning and reason from the scriptures.
Note to self - when someone states that they don't understand what I'm talking about simply tell them I'm using "Spirit-led reasoning" and then pretend that it makes what I'm saying superiour. Ignore the people laughing at this nonsense and my hubris.

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I used to think quite a bit like the world...
Almost certainly not true. That would require the ability to read, comprehend and reason.

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If you ask me most atheists can't change gears in their heads to get into pondering mode thus they never encounter God's life changing wisdom.
I think my irony meter just exploded.

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I'm not really as unreasonable as you think. I've just chosen to address the issues from as godly an approach as I can identify.
How do we know that she's approaching it in a godly manner? Because she says so. CONVINCING!

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It's easy to approach things from the world's perspective. People are influenced by the world and want to fit in. But I don't care if I fit in as long as I get God right. Godly people are few and far between these days. I daresay very few atheists have met one. I wouldn't count myself a fully godly person yet but I have met several people that are farther along that road of character development than I am. These are extraordinarily good natured and humble people
Long long journey ahead for Splenda.

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and that is the aim of God's book: to produce supernaturally humble, patient and goodnatured people.
If this is the standard then the book is a collosal failure.
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03-04-2011 , 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Splendour
I leave you to think what you like because your mind is made up based on what you think not on what you understood about what I said.
this from the woman who in one post will ask a question with a possible answer and, by the next post, has decided her opinion is fact and no amount of contrary evidence will sway her against what she's made up.
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03-05-2011 , 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Duncelanas
Can't wait for you to stop posting! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
And why don't they ask if its not clear?

If he had asked I would have told him to consider the Quaker idea of the Inner Light: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_light

Did you know many of the earliest Quakers were social activists that were persecuted for their activism? One of the fields they were active in was the abolition of slavery.
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03-05-2011 , 07:53 PM
Interesting: "Friends are not in complete agreement on the importance of the Inner Light in relation to the Bible. Most Friends, especially in the past, have looked to the Bible as a source of wisdom and guidance. Many, if not most of them, have considered the Bible a book inspired by God. But Quakers have generally tended to regard present, personal direction from God more authoritative than the text of the Bible."
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03-05-2011 , 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by LVGambler
Interesting: "Friends are not in complete agreement on the importance of the Inner Light in relation to the Bible. Most Friends, especially in the past, have looked to the Bible as a source of wisdom and guidance. Many, if not most of them, have considered the Bible a book inspired by God. But Quakers have generally tended to regard present, personal direction from God more authoritative than the text of the Bible."
The bible says the Spirit is higher than the letter.

But we also have the double witness: the Spirit and the Word.

Here's the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688_Ge...gainst_Slavery
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03-05-2011 , 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Splendour
The bible says the Spirit is higher than the letter.

But we also have the double witness: the Spirit and the Word.

Here's the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688_Ge...gainst_Slavery
Yeah, but they are not saying the Inner Light = The Spirit

They are saying the Inner Light > the Bible

They believe God inspired the Bible to be written. And the Inner Light is God inspiring you. Either way, man created both ideas, so who gives a ****?
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