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Old 04-02-2015, 12:49 PM
 
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Your testimony has been confusing. Supposedly, you had a relationship with Jesus. The poof, it vanished!
Jimmie, this is not confusing to me at all. Many of us had very important an meaningful relationships with our imaginary friends as children, but once we realized that the other party is our "relationship" did not exist in a meaningful way, the relationship was also disappeared.

Similarly, my relationship with God was probably the most important thing in my life for most of my life. My entire family life, education, and social life was centered around Jesus. It impacted everything in my life. Eventually, I came to realize that, just like a with childhood imaginary friend, I was the one doing all the talking. And with that realization, the relationship suddenly reveals itself as illusory. Poof...

-NoCapo
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Old 04-02-2015, 12:55 PM
 
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Your testimony has been confusing. Supposedly, you had a relationship with Jesus. The poof, it vanished!
Yes. But it wasn't poof. It happened over a period of time.
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Old 04-02-2015, 12:57 PM
 
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Jimmie, this is not confusing to me at all. Many of us had very important an meaningful relationships with our imaginary friends as children, but once we realized that the other party is our "relationship" did not exist in a meaningful way, the relationship was also disappeared.

Similarly, my relationship with God was probably the most important thing in my life for most of my life. My entire family life, education, and social life was centered around Jesus. It impacted everything in my life. Eventually, I came to realize that, just like a with childhood imaginary friend, I was the one doing all the talking. And with that realization, the relationship suddenly reveals itself as illusory. Poof...

-NoCapo
Well said, NoCapo. Well said.
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Free State of Texas
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No, I didn't. Here's what was said, Jimmie:
OK, what did you mean by "presented by a great deal of the Bible"?
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:34 PM
 
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Are you acknowledging that Jimmie?
Yes, but that's not Biblical.
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:34 PM
 
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OK, what did you mean by "presented by a great deal of the Bible"?
I think that's pretty self-explanatory.
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Free State of Texas
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Jimmie, this is not confusing to me at all. Many of us had very important an meaningful relationships with our imaginary friends as children, but once we realized that the other party is our "relationship" did not exist in a meaningful way, the relationship was also disappeared.

Similarly, my relationship with God was probably the most important thing in my life for most of my life. My entire family life, education, and social life was centered around Jesus. It impacted everything in my life. Eventually, I came to realize that, just like a with childhood imaginary friend, I was the one doing all the talking. And with that realization, the relationship suddenly reveals itself as illusory. Poof...

-NoCapo
Sounds to me like you never received Jesus.
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:36 PM
 
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Sounds to me like you never received Jesus.
You had to know that one was coming, NoCapo.
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:37 PM
 
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I think that's pretty self-explanatory.
Dodge.
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Old 04-02-2015, 01:40 PM
 
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You had to know that one was coming, NoCapo.
How else to explain the very different experience by billions throughout history, including many here? No Capo implies we're dillusional. Not any different than what I said about his experience.
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