Anyone experience this before?

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When your reading scriptures and a flood of thoughts keeps coming in! "Hath God said, hath God said".

And I'm reading the verse and it says something clearly and the flood of thoughts goes "are you sure, God really means that".

And I read it plainly and I say yes, and the flood of thoughts, "you've been deceived".

It makes me want to sit and do nothing. Since it keeps making me feel to dumb to read.
 

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It’s easy for us humans to fall into negative thinking habits that intrude our every moment. Lock into your mind, spirit and soul that God’s word is objective truth and even when I have doubts it doesn’t change that fact and choose to trust in it above your own thoughts.
 
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We live in a time of firey darts of doubt penetrating us, If We Let Them In and If We Let Them Influence us. Not to mention the distractions of the world. A seed of doubt gets planted so easy these days too. We see it here in the forums all the time. I would if in your shoes, set a time period of maybe two weeks or a month and put the bible down. And go into silent prayer with the Lord Jesus alone in a quiet place when ever possible. I did this with a book of doctrines I was working in and just getting more questions than answers. One morning a funnel of information hit me saying " it's about me Jesus, David". We can always go to God, Father Son Holy Spirit in prayer. After the set time passes then pick your bible back up and see how it reads.

Also what translation are you reading ? Pray on that, they aren't all really good. Another translation might better speak to you.
 
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We live in a time of firey darts of doubt penetrating us, If We Let Them In and If We Let Them Influence us. Not to mention the distractions of the world. A seed of doubt gets planted so easy these days too. We see it here in the forums all the time. I would if in your shoes, set a time period of maybe two weeks or a month and put the bible down. And go into silent prayer with the Lord Jesus alone in a quiet place when ever possible. I did this with a book of doctrines I was working in and just getting more questions than answers. One morning a funnel of information hit me saying " it's about me Jesus, David". We can always go to God, Father Son Holy Spirit in prayer. After the set time passes then pick your bible back up and see how it reads.

Also what translation are you reading ? Pray on that, they aren't all really good. Another translation might better speak to you.

The ESV, the footnotes in the bottom keep making me wonder. It's hard to ignore the footnotes.
 
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Ya I have a big Dakes NKJV I keep open to any particular scripture sometimes for days. But it's one that has enough foot notes to be a daily reading all their own lol. I don't care for that, though the bible itself is beautiful, which is part of why it's on display basically . It's in my dining room. Anyway, in our church organization we say to let scripture prove itself. Just a simple reference bible is sufficient, where references are to other portions of scripture supporting what you just read. Scripture proves scripture. You/we don't need mans agenda displayed in footnotes, imo.
 
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