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Originally Posted by ctclady11
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Sounds like you're trying to justify what you and what you DON'T believe in... by questioning those things that only GOD HIMSELF can reveal to you.
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Not exactly "trying" to justify, but have justified, according the normal level of reason (more or less an evidence-based method of thinking) that allows us to survive every day in this world. For example, "How to cross a street safely" requires a kind of scientific method of reason and experience, and you probably use it every day. But when it comes to an imaginative world containing spirit beings that interact with this world, you throw out the normal requirements of evidence, because you want to believe in something you hope is true. Yes,
of course I "justify"--and that's what thinking people are supposed to do. They defend truth, or their philosophy, or their world view. But if "God Himself" is what really does the essential work, and somehow "reveals" things apart from what the supposed holy, inerrant Bible says in clear (enough) words, then there's no need to claim the Holey Babble has authority on its own merits. No need to even discuss it. But Fundy Christians claim the WORDS are true--all of it. I once believed like you, and thought "God reveals" truth also. But it was all my imagination and my conversion, fueled by other peoples' similarly informed imaginations.
