I think I am. As a Witness, I may have tried to act out of fear of retribution. Now that I have a personal relationship with Christ, I try to act out of love to Him and others and also to become a better person. In order to personally evolve to a higher state.
BurnTheShips
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Are You A More "Moral" Person Now Than When You Were A Witness?
by minimus inif you can be honest, were you more morally upright as a jehovah's witness?
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I got baptised yesterday!
by Mrs Smith init was so wonderful.
i had to give a testimony in church.
i kept on having to stop to take a deep breath as the tears were threatening to come pouring out into the ugly cry.
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Congratulations!!
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Looks like a great book, "What is so great about Christianity?"
by BurnTheShips ini am going to orderit:.
http://www.amazon.com/whats-so-great-about-christianity/dp/1596985178/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=utf8&s=books&qid=1195479248&sr=1-1.
it's by dinesh d'souza.
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BurnTheShips
I am going to orderit:
It's by Dinesh D'Souza. It got great reviews. Has anyone here read any C.S Lewis?
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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Was there an 'original sin'?
Yes there was original sin.
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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BurnTheShips
Hmm. Except I'm not talking about the creation story. I'm talking about man's fall, whether it was a couple called Adam and Eve who ate forbidden fruit or a group of humans who sinned in some other way 6,000 years ago.
I am referring to the Genesis account-which includes the Creation and the Fall.
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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BurnTheShips
I think Sero, despite leaving the JW's, displays some of the black/white literal-mindedness that they do. Not to mention the ingrained JW understanding of sola scriptura (despite the fact that in practice they are not).
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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BurnTheShips
Let me expand a little bit:
The account of creation in Genesis was described according to the reality of the people of that time and place, if God were to inspire such a thing today I am sure it would be in today's language and cosmology. And if it were in today's terms, how do you think it would look to our descendants 3000 years hence at the current rate of progress? Pretty anachronistic! That is not to say it was a metaphor, it describes real events that really happened, but described in a manner that the people of that time would grasp. It is the same when we explain something to a small child today. We use forms they can understand while conveying the essence of what we are communicating to them.
Luke: Obi-Wan.
[Obi-Wan's spirit approaches Luke]
Luke: Why didn't you tell me? You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father.
Obi-Wan: Your father... was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and BECAME Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I told you was TRUE... from a certain point of view.
Luke: A certain point of view?
Obi-Wan: Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to...
[sits down]
Obi-Wan: depend greatly on our own point of view. Anakin was a good friend.Either way, The Christian faith is not a religion of the book. Christianity is the religion of the Word of God, not a written and mute word, but an incarnate and living being. The book is about the faith and the revelation, not the faith itself or the revelation itself.
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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BurnTheShips
Who said it was a metaphor?
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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BurnTheShips
I think I covered that when I wrote:
Actually no. Read the article again.
"Conversely Christians should not abuse the Bible by trying to treat it as a scientific textbook, when scientific writing as we understand it now did not even get going until thousands of years after the early chapters of Genesis were written. It is anachronistic to treat biblical texts as if they were articles out of a contemporary scientific journal. The biblical creation accounts tell us timeless truths about God’s purposes for His creation in general, and for humankind in particular."
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God-guided Evolution
by serotonin_wraith init's a lot to get through, but if anyone gets through it all and disagrees with my position, i'd love to know why because i'd like to make this more solid.
i don't think i've covered everything yet.
also if you just have helpful pointers.
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