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    Give me an honest answer please:

    Most rituals are symbolic, others serve to achieve an altered state of consciousness, either in the 'magician' (yes, they are performing magic in the truest sense of the word) or in the place or person the ritual is being performed for. The term 'casting out demons' is likely just a way to say...
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    Are Human Lives Intrinsically Worth More Than Other Animal Lives?

    I think it is not so much the concept of actual 'worth' that bothers me.... it is the general ATTITUDE that humans are better. Why? What MAKES us so much better? Because we are smarter? SO what? I am not about to say if an animal was about to attack my child I would hesitate to kill it... of...
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    Are Human Lives Intrinsically Worth More Than Other Animal Lives?

    How could I have forgotten... I hang my head in shame :doh:
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    Give me an honest answer please:

    Why concern yourself with what they do? I realize it is frustrating when others will not see things the way that we may see them, but to them... what they do IS logical based on THEIR experiences, just as what you believe is logical to you... which is why I said spiritual truth is unique to each...
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    Give me an honest answer please:

    We can know he exists at the time, and I don't think we can doubt Christianity is real. We can certainly change our views based on new experiences later on Only in hindsight perhaps. They are reliable at the time in our own minds. We cannot start to completely distrust our experiences, as...
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    Are Human Lives Intrinsically Worth More Than Other Animal Lives?

    You mean like humans?
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    Give me an honest answer please:

    That saying is very true indeed...... believers have experienced God, therefore to them God absolutely exists, while non-believers have nothing to base an experience of God upon, and until they experience it for themselves, will never accept it.
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    I think there probably is a certain element of 'herd mentality'... going through the motions... but I guess that is true in many religions. There will always be those who 'claim' to be something, who really are not. Often they may feel pressured into making an appearance in church even though...
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    Of course... this is why people who are Christian suddenly leave Christianity for another religion, or no religion.... or why people who previously never believed in God suddenly become very devout believers.... it is all because of what we experience in our lives. People who have never had...
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    Give me an honest answer please:

    Of course... makes sense to me, but generally this is because another feeling or experience has replaced the previous one and is considered more valid. This is how we learn and grow.
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    I think that personal experience has to be a forerunner to faith. You cannot have faith for the sake of having faith alone... you need to have faith for some REASON. And that reason is largely personal and can never be disputed or debated. Perhaps you experienced a vision of what you perceive to...
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    I agree... often when time passes we 'go back' to thinking the way we did before the incident happened. This is human nature. But do we forget the 'experience' if it is significant to us? True, trusting our feelings can often lead us into danger, but they can also lead us to do much good... we...
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    I think if it is a feeling you trust in because you have experienced something, then it is real to you. Sometimes feelings are all we have. This to me is a much more realistic 'faith' because it is based on personal experience... moreso than a 'faith' based on scripture alone is. I can relate to...
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    Once again... being careful now... not to CONDEMN what you believe, only to try and understand; How do you KNOW life cannot come from something non-living? Isn't that what God created life from... the dust? I realize this seems to SUPPORT a God... but there is no proof that even if life DID...
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    Give me an honest answer please:

    See... now THIS makes sense to me :)
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