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Recent content by chiefofsinners

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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    What?
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    Christian Drinking

    That's awesome! Luther would've approved.
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    I'm definitely not a cogent thinker. I am perfectly willing to accept that, to most people much smart than I, my beliefs are circular. I am just not willing to debate with those who do not claim to be Christians, that I am somehow more intelligent than they are because my beliefs, in their mind...
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    Being that I am a Christian (or I try to be), I believe that God defines what is truly "rational," and all else is irrational. But, the non-Christian uses human reason to say that Christianity is irrational. If Descartes was right, the non-Christian can try to disprove Christianity based on his...
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    My point is that atheism and Christianity both claim to be viable worldviews, and typically both sides try to use the "rationality" of their beliefs to critique the other. But, the modern sense of what is "rational" is that which can be objectively proven. Neither worldview can be proven...
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    Christian Drinking

    That's where their "literalism" fails, because it imposes false presuppositions upon the text. They don't want people to drink, so they twist the Bible to make it say what they want it to say. And, sadly, the majority of Christians don't actually read their own Bibles, and live vicariously...
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    Christian Drinking

    It's hard for the liberals and the fundies...
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    Christian Drinking

    The Greek word literally means to "drink to intoxication." So, whatever that means for your body, not mine, is your point that it becomes sinful. It's your responsibility to find that limit and glorify God by drinking in His way.
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    Exactly...which is why someone cannot truly be an atheist, and not an agnostic, in the sense that he can objectively "prove" (without possibility of doubt) that God doesn't exist.
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    In reality, that is truly what biblical faith is. We believe in things we can't "prove" by any modern objective standard. Christianity is belief in what we cannot see. It is not rational or irrational -- it is transrational.
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    A lot of Christians seem to miss the most important part, not primarily that we hate our sin, but that we receive God as our treasure. The more we understand who God is and He reveals Himself to us, the more natural it is to choose Him over everything else.
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    I really think the more God reveals Himself to us, the more we are willing to obey Him. He replaces our desires, so we don't even want what we wanted before. So, it's not so much a sacrifice -- it becomes a natural overflow of His Spirit.
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    I really don't believe that changing your outward conformity to a moral code is going to help anything in your journey toward God. But, I think a lot of the Christian viewpoints on sexuality are way off. The biblical perspective is that men should treat all women with respect, and see them as...
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    Does God Love all people?

    I think the answer is a lot deeper than most people want to think it is. The problem is that nowhere in Scripture is there such a thing as a "free will." There is actually a lot of Scripture directly opposed to such a concept. And, of course, all the unanswerable questions get asked when such a...
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    not so much a believer, more a 'seeker'

    Christianity is not moralism. I lived a very moralistic life before I became a Christian. I tried to always do the right thing and be the good kid, but it wasn't about responding to God's love. It was about looking like a good person and about trying to earn God's favor. Christianity is the...
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