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Recent content by Mark Quayle

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    Have you guys ever done anything...odd?

    After surgery, the Dr had me on a liquid diet, then semi-solid and so on; then one day, "Ok, you can eat normally now!" --"WOW! Thanks, Doc! I've never been able to eat normally before!" I've been talking to a friend on the phone while getting ready to go somewhere, gathering my things, and...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    And Congress uses this too!
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    Well, no. It doesn't. Genesis doesn't show much about geology. It just doesn't fit your head. Geology helps you think about the elements, time, forces and the earth, etc. It fits your head to the facts.
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    I wouldn't separate the two so simply. 'Science' is ignorant, so far. It doesn't explain anything. It just helps us think about things. Genesis does fit all facts, no matter how far 'science' goes. God being God, he 'invented' the whole business.
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    lonely alcoholic

    Matthew 11: "28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." And learning of him includes desperate Bible reading, long reads, with prayer...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    So you are defining 'reality' as a system, not as an omni. Also, understand, this whole statement you make is about what little we know so far. If there are other, even if there are many, universes, they all have at least one thing in common. Their creator. And that can be only one, who is...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    I pick, "it's not the full extent of reality". There can be only one reality, and only one First Cause, one God. Reality is HIS. What we see or hear or know about is irrelevant to the facts.
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    You speak of "other realities" so loosely one might forget that there is only one reality—and that is God's. There can be only one. Are you speaking of maybe other universes, that, perhaps, operate by different principles and laws? Or are you speaking of other points of view? Those are not...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    FireDragon76 said: I think that's a more like some New Age interpretations that remains to be proven scientifically. The point of Jesus saying like having faith the size of a mustard seed moving mountains isn't that we are suppossesd to become mentalists, it's that when you live by faith...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    I should think, you would be more accurate to say, Our experience of this reality is limited by our senses. After all, the reality is not limited by anything unless by God. Truth is truth, regardless of who knows it or senses it.
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    There is objective reality. Rationally, it does not depend on us to see or know it, but on the First Cause. I like to think that this temporal reality will be "swallowed up into" that larger reality. The term, "comprehended by", in some places in the Bible, notably John 1:5 (in the KJV)...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    True, you did not. We are living in the same reality in which Christ died for our sins. So it is real. But, according to God's description, this, (the temporal), is but a vapor compared to the solid reality of the spiritual economy of the eternal. Yet, this is real by God's establishing it. So...
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    Reality depends on God alone, even for its very existence, not to mention for ontology. It doesn't depend on us.
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    What happens spiritually that makes us born again?

    I don't follow that statement. Are you saying that it is impossible for the OT saints to be born again without also being 'in Christ'? I agree. You use the word, "before". Not true according to temporal sequence; time is not absolute. True according to causal sequence. It is because of Jesus'...
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    Is regret the same as repentance?

    They are not at all the same. In fact, even heartfelt change of mind does not equal true repentance. We are petulant, fickle, self-involved, ignorant, rebellious and at the core, evil, but for God's work in us to change us. The only true repentance is a gift from God. Submission is a good way to...