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Recent content by johnford

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    The Atheist Asks #7: Can I buy your soul? (Hate Mirror) (Offensive Content)

    I don't need to 'image' I just look around and see lots of people living in their own hell while shouting that they are really free. The reason I'm a Christian is that what else is on offer sucks ...
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    Deconversion?

    Questioning is healthy. If we don't question we become embedded in a 'system' and take on board the necessity to conform to the 'system' rather than being open to God. In being open to God entails a risk and as we live in a world that craves 'certainty' there are going to be problems as God...
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    How does one receive the Holy Spirit?

    Don't believe everything you read just because you choose to believe everything you read. The biblical texts invites us to think about God .... the text is not God.
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    How does one receive the Holy Spirit?

    How would you know this? But you definition of 'Christian' is flawed. This was all thrashed out in the 4th century and we are left what is known as the Nicene Creed which defines who is a Christian, which you might note, includes reference to the Holy Spirit.
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    Patriarchy, nurture, and our theology.

    Short answer - Yes. We are conditioned by our environment which enhances the way we see the world from a particular socio/cultural basis. But theology is more than following along in some particular perspective. Theology embraces all perspectives which means you have a many ways of...
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    Implications of textual criticism

    The present Bibles are generally compiled by lots of people who have scholarships in any number of different fields that stretch over decades .... skills far beyond anything you or I might possess. They have access to the extant texts and technology that simply did not exist as little as 50...
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    God revealed Himself all of a sudden, then just stopped

    If God has stopped revealing himself, as you suggest, why do you the expect that he will reveal himself?
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    Rowan Williams in perspective

    I like anyone in leadership who lacks leadership ability. Of course, Williams was not the sort of leader that shouted from rooftops unnecessarily. I think he steared the congregation through a turbulent period which would have resulted in serious fracture if any lesser moral was playing leader.
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    " It may be that Jesus was an illegitimate son”.

    The emphasis is on 'some' people .... that does not mean you have to agree with them. Accuracy ... well we just don't know and back in those days things were quite so black and white as might like to have them. Besides, does it really matter? What has this to do with the gospel?
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    What do you believe and why?

    Interesting position. You don't think? I am thinking of how to respond.
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    What are God's reasons for sending someone to hell?

    Which is why your rationalist argument falter ... you cannot understanding the arguments involved other than you own flawed logic.
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    What are God's reasons for sending someone to hell?

    Determinist and material arguments cannot led to to thinking that it has been in humanity that has practiced evil ... not God. Fortunately neither you nor I have to remain so 'doomed'. You rationalism flounders here. If humanity is as you contend a 'doomed system' then why are you...
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    What are God's reasons for sending someone to hell?

    The same reason why I am a Christian .... look around .... the alternatives suck. People increasingly pretend they are living in utopia and governments love that ... stops them thinking too deeply. And you failed to acknowledge your own thinking ... there was no 'atrocity'. That fact that...
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    What do you believe and why?

    That does not necessarily proves you exist.
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    What do you believe and why?

    Thought are not $$$$ .... you are confusing thinking with empirical things.
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