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Originally Posted by papa smurf
and i think if my post hadn't hit a raw nerve you would have simply ignored it,now what does that say about the way you live your life ?..
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That's poor. We're on a discussion forum, you should expect responses as the norm, unless someone has you on 'ignore' - and I don't have anyone on ignore.
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Originally Posted by frogstamper
Chris please don't take this as being offensive in any way, but a question I've always been interested in asking people of faith is, "how are you or others so aware of what God actually wants"?
Is for example the above post opinions that you have deduced that God wants from say talking to other theologians or reading the bible or the like, or is it more than that.
One of the reasons I'm asking is that I've seen quite a few religious programs lately on TV whereby a group of people from varying religions all claim to know what God wants, surely they can't all be right.?
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It's not offensive at all. But are you asking about comparative religion or about different ideas within the same faith? If the latter, I think the differences you see on TV are probably not as vast as you think. TV needs to create opposition and tension, even in 'factual' programming, otherwise there's no drama and nobody's interested (allegedly).
God has first and foremost given us the Bible. The Christian's first responsibility is to live according to the teaching in the New Testamant, and in the Old Testament
as illuminated by the New (which is why we don't stone adulterers etc). If you find a group of people picketing a gay funeral with placards you can show them from the Bible quite easily (if they will listen) why they may not be behaving appropriately.
On a smaller scale we Christians pray about all the day to day stuff and trust God for answers, but it's difficult to explain in a few words on a forum posts how that works and how he answers. He's real, very real, I can tell you that.
Beyond that, I guess you could ask how you know which is the right religion? That's a whole essay in its own right and not something I have time to do justice to at the moment!