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Since you associate Christ's name with some weird kind of dualistic heresy, I fear you are more likely to drive people away.My job is to sprinkle my Lords name all throughout every conversation. In that way perhaps there is another lost soul that is seeking and doesn't have a bad attitude like you. He may read my words and then pray to the Lord and be saved? It can happen.
Since you associate Christ's name with some weird kind of dualistic heresy, I fear you are more likely to drive people away.
Rocket *surgeon*, please.
The spell is broken, I ain't goin' back.
Is that what spirit dualism is. That's not what I was talking about. Matter is not inherently bad or lowly. The Spirit may indeed be superior because the matter was created by the Spirit. What makes you think that in the spiritual realm there are not, spiritual bodies. Or interdimensional bodies?
Oh, ok. I get it. So you were saying not that I am a heretic but that what I spoke may be heresy. Sorry about that.
I have always been taught that the road to God is a battle of the mind. I admit, I do not see a contrast where you do. More of a partnership than a contrast. You sound as if you don't believe in the spiritual realm or think it's where everything is etherial. And that is not so. Jesus said, the Kingdom is at hand. Look to the unseen. Understand how it fits in to the big picture.
I once heard one of those scientist types (I forget who) that said our entire life is spent 95% thinking and the other 5% of the time we're actually doing something (outside of ourselves) IOW, not thinking. Sometimes I think while driving. So if I am inside thinking then I'm not driving the truck. WHo's driving the truck?! My sub-conscious is driving, having been programmed to drive and even knows the way. Then he postulated that, what if our thoughts are the only real substance that we have as humans? What if, faith is the substance of that which we can not see.
So to me, I am able to see that we could indeed be being put through a mental exercise. And we wouldn't even know it. Like you said, a dream seems real until you wake up.
Oh, so up above you were just telling me about spirit matter dualism but you don't agree with it is what you are saying here?
You are NOT a soul in a body in the middle of an unseen spiritual realm?
Oh! I see. You do believe it on some level maybe but generally ignore the things of the spirit and spiritual realm to focus all of your attention on Christ Himself? I think that's ok and I can understand that viewpoint. I do focus on Jesus too, but they had a thread on some christian forum where people were trying to unpack the realities a little so I was urged to respond.
The way I figure it, if we are supposed to worship in Spirit and in Truth, then we also need to read His word in Spirit and Truth. You don't just read it once and decipher the textual message. First off perhaps but then you read it again and look for the biblical principle that is being spoke of, then a third time to get the spirit of it or the essence so to speak.
Have you ever gotten a Rhema?
Well I started the thread here. So I have no need to go private. Say what you want to here. It's not off topic to me and I'm the OP. SO we should be good.
We aren't talking science right now. We are talking theology. We are, in fact, getting into some major theological and biblical conversation that should be discussed elsewhere, so that it can be more appropriately explored without wasting space here. It also means more visibility for those who want to participate in this particular discussion.
Don't have to refute ridiculous ideas. You can try to prove they aren't ridiculous though. Good luck!Because you say so ......... we will wait for your presentation to refute the above by Chuck Missler.
You're free to believe that if you like. It's rubbish, of course, but if you want to believe it, then in the words of the Prophet Mohammed, "Gourd head on".We live in the Matrix.
So? Zat mean we're supposed to believe every idiotic idea that comes along unquestionably? Better you than me, mate.That's what atheist say about Christians.
i did. It was ridiculous.
Some of us obviously aren't just playing
Yep. It was rubbish.Are you sure it just wasnt over your head?
I'm sure that you could.I could explain it to you
There's about a 90% certainty of that.but you would snicker at it too
Good!so I wont waste my time with you
Oh, I can do better than that:beyond one question. Name all the states of matter that you can think of? Can you name any of them?
Wasn't the movie Matrix derived from quantum physics in 1949?Wow man, I bet you don't even like science fiction movies!
What if I told you that The Mariix is not science fiction?
It's a documentary.
Wasn't the movie Matrix derived from quantum physics in 1949?
What practical difference does it make?It's already been proven now that we live in an electrial smulatton.
In short in matters vegetable, animal and mineral,...Yep. It was rubbish.
I'm sure that you could.
There's about a 90% certainty of that.
Good!
Oh, I can do better than that:
.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And do you want 4 states or 5? <Laugh>
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