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Recent content by SLB

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    What is the point of praying?

    Without being snarky, if you aren't getting answers, you aren't doing it right. Step 1 be born again. Basic, but some people try to skip this step. Step 2 examine yourself, confess anything that isn't right and make it right. If you harbour sin in your heart, God doesn't hear you, so get rid of...
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    Giving up posessions

    You already know what to do, you didn't need to ask. Ditch it. Sorry, let me be more coherent. "The Word says to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind." So that means God first in everything. If your mind is...
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    Divorcing my father/ending all contact with my father

    I'm hearing you say that you are living in a situation that you find unendurable. You're 38 and still being supported by your parents. The quick solution is simply to move out, get a job and support yourself. When you are working and can pay your own way, many of the arguments your father uses...
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    Demon/devil threads

    All good points. If you are fearful of demons, evil spirits and the like hanging around you, the best way to get rid of them is to spend more time with God. reading copious amounts of the Word helps to clear the crap out of your mind. Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with...
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    Salvation

    Have you noticed that FAITH is the one thing that is both a fruit of the Spirit and a gift of the Spirit. In Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God...
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    I'm confused and guilty and I'm not sure what to do or how to feel

    It looks like you're already doing what needs to be done. You're reading your Bible, checking out other churches and examining, what you believe, and they believe, in light of the scriptures. That's all good. Some times the practicality of how to get to the church you'd like to attend, just...
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    Salvation

    One minister I used to know called it the "irreduceable minimum". People who want to just squeak over the line from being damned to being saved. The answer to your question is "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." But as you have seen there are a lot of "Christians" who say they are believers...
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    I am confused about the role of pastors in modern times

    If that's what you think, you really don't know what most pastors do. I have several in the family and I can tell you that "regurgitating principles" is the least of their job. Like police and firemen, they are always on call. They get calls from frantic parents when a son or daughter has been...
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    Should Genesis be taken literally?

    To get this back to your original question, in what way do you think the Biblical narrative may have been enhanced?
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    I accepted science. Now life is half what it was.

    If you aren't feeling that closeness to God you once knew, guess who moved? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. He didn't change and He loves you still, just acknowledge that He is who He says He is and believe. After all, it says in 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he...
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    I accepted science. Now life is half what it was.

    You choose to believe, or not believe. Feelings are not believing, but if you want that sense of closeness to God, all you have to do is repent and believe. If you refuse to repent, you won't ever be able to believe. I'm not talking about science because what you believe about science doesn't...
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    Should Genesis be taken literally?

    Since you brought this subject up I've been wondering about a couple of things in the Genesis account. Firstly, is it possible that the age of Adam as recounted in Genesis is only counting the period of time that he aged after the fall? Maybe that's a dumb question that a Biblical scholar would...
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    Gift of Discernment question

    I think maybe you have a flawed understanding. The word discernment isn't in any translation of the Bible I have. In 1 Corinthians 12 Paul talks about the gifts if the Holy Spirit such as a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge. As such they are snippets of information necessary so that the...
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    What was Adam doing when Eve was taking the apple?

    The very verse you quote shows that Adam was not deceived, his sin was deliberate.
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    What was Adam doing when Eve was taking the apple?

    Are you saying the serpent tempted Eve and Eve in turn tempted Adam?