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New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

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Again, your opinions and feelings aren't what's chiefly at issue. It's the ingredients of faith, which are not simply a matter of feelings and opinions.
Faith is a matter of opinion. It is literally nothing but feeling and opinion. (And it isn't evidence of anything.)
 
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Faith is a matter of opinion. It is literally nothing but feeling and opinion. (And it isn't evidence of anything.)
As would be an expected opinion of one who never truly possessed it.
 
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Faith is a matter of opinion. It is literally nothing but feeling and opinion. (And it isn't evidence of anything.)
I think what we have here is not about God, it's magical thinking about the Bible. It's not your dismissal of God that's he's distainful about, but your failure to have embraced Sola Scriptura. That's where he finds his "objective truths."
 
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I think what we have here is not about God, it's magical thinking about the Bible. It's not your dismissal of God that's he's distainful about, but your failure to have embraced Sola Scriptura. That's where he finds his "objective truths."
Oh, you're a mind reader? Amazing that I would be disdainful about someone not embracing a doctrine I don't embrace...how's that supposed to work, exactly?
 
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Oh, you're a mind reader? Amazing that I would be disdainful about someone not embracing a doctrine I don't embrace...how's that supposed to work, exactly?
Just a bad guess, I suppose, based on your constant pushing of Protestant doctrine and your obvious distain for Traditional Christian theology.
 
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Just a bad guess, I suppose, based on your constant pushing of Protestant doctrine and your obvious distain for Traditional Christian theology.
Disdain for "Traditional Christian" theology? Odd, I was aware of no such disdain. I'm quite fond of Orthodoxy, actually. Though I am admittedly more philosophically rigid, but that's not really a theological issue. Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions based on limited evidence.
 
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Disdain for "Traditional Christian" theology? Odd, I was aware of no such disdain. I'm quite fond of Orthodoxy, actually. Though I am admittedly more philosophically rigid, but that's not really a theological issue. Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions based on limited evidence.
Sorry. I was just being snarky because I am growing tired of your attitude. I'll just put you on "ignore".
 
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As would be an expected opinion of one who never truly possessed it.
I definitely don't have it now and you have no way to assess if I did in the past, unless you borrow AV's TARDIS, since I see he wrote something you replied to, and go interragate the me of the past who "claimed" to believe. I have no idea what he could say that would satisfy you since I know a whole lot more about other religions that he did and *I* can't figure out what you want.
 
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I definitely don't have it now and you have no way to assess if I did in the past, unless you borrow AV's TARDIS, since I see he wrote something you replied to, and go interragate the me of the past who "claimed" to believe. I have no idea what he could say that would satisfy you since I know a whole lot more about other religions that he did and *I* can't figure out what you want.
Current statements suffice as a pretty good indication, and your lack of ability to "figure out" is to be expected.
 
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Current statements suffice as a pretty good indication, and your lack of ability to "figure out" is to be expected.
Do you remember what you felt about things and stuff 30 years ago?
 
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