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Old 04-23-2016, 06:46 AM
 
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Do you believe that God/Universe gives us signs to help us along the way. Some people will call this the Holy Spirit guiding them, others will say it's intuition. Some things are too strange to be a coincidence (deja vu). What experiences have you had that let you know you were on the right path?
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Old 04-23-2016, 11:00 AM
 
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Do you believe that God/Universe gives us signs to help us along the way. Some people will call this the Holy Spirit guiding them, others will say it's intuition. Some things are too strange to be a coincidence (deja vu). What experiences have you had that let you know you were on the right path?
No. God doesn't need to speak to us in code. He told in the Bible what he expects of us, and then gives us freedom to make choices in life accordingly.
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Old 04-23-2016, 11:02 AM
 
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No. We are pattern matching creatures and story tellers ... we readily infer patterns and agency where they don't actually exist.

We control for confirmation bias and agency inference via the scientific method.
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Old 04-23-2016, 11:08 AM
 
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No. God doesn't need to speak to us in code. He told in the Bible what he expects of us, and then gives us freedom to make choices in life accordingly.
But in the idolized stories, Jesus does speak in code many times. And prophecies are also often supposedly coded.
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Old 04-23-2016, 11:15 AM
 
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But in the idolized stories, Jesus does speak in code many times. And prophecies are also often supposedly coded.
OK? And we are not required to decode prophecies to know that we are to believe in Jesus for salvation, then serve God by Loving him and our neighbors. It's not that difficult. We don't have to sit in fear wondering if we chose the right parking space at the mall.
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Old 04-23-2016, 12:08 PM
 
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Do you believe that God/Universe gives us signs to help us along the way. Some people will call this the Holy Spirit guiding them, others will say it's intuition.
Others will say it's superstitious nonsense.
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Old 04-23-2016, 07:48 PM
 
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I think sometimes the universe speaks in mysterious ways.
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Old 04-23-2016, 09:25 PM
 
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I think sometimes the universe speaks in mysterious ways.
It does.
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Old 04-24-2016, 02:49 AM
 
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OK? And we are not required to decode prophecies to know that we are to believe in Jesus for salvation, then serve God by Loving him and our neighbors. It's not that difficult. We don't have to sit in fear wondering if we chose the right parking space at the mall.
I thought the whole point of the coded (likely retroactive about their actual issue) prophecies was that if you "decode them correctly" with certain interpretations than you know that you have more "scriptural evidence" (i.e. stories) to believe in Jesus.

Vizio, did you turn to follow MysticPhD? If you don't have to worry about anything other than faith in Jesus and two commandments (that technically are simply meta-labels for the real 614 commandments) then why continue the "unnecessary" Bibliolatry with all of it's externalities and codes? We all know what Bibliolatrists actually base and center their worship on, and what they make themselves "require" to believe.
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Old 04-24-2016, 05:28 AM
 
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No. God doesn't need to speak to us in code. He told in the Bible what he expects of us, and then gives us freedom to make choices in life accordingly.
The word says a good man's steps are ordered by the Lord. The Bible is the blueprint from which we should use to live our lives. I'm talking more about divine, supernatural guidance that occurs on the inside as well as on the outside...e.g.things falling into place.
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