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feelinahole
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| Posted 10/4/2006 9:39 AM (GMT -6) |   | | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 10/4/2006 9:42 AM (GMT -6) | | Corey:
Myself, I think I'm regressing in terms of fear; I'm more fearful these days than I used to be before I had a family. Honestly. It's not fear for myself, but fear that profoundly bad things could happen to my kids. We talk all the time about evil on this board, and it's clear that it's a real possibility for all of us. I used to kind of naively think it'll never happen to me. I know that Christ will redeem all that ultimately, and that's my only hope, but in the interim the only word I can use to describe the prospect of evil is 'fear'. All the more so as I expand my vision of who my 'loved ones' are; my exposure is greater.
Thanks for your transparency, brah. I hear you. The waves on the sea are rough indeed. That's why it's so understanding how we can easily fall into fear. Even though some (many) of our perceptions may be faulty, many of the dangers are real and present. All we can do is just be real about our fears to ourselves...and then lay it before God. We spend so much time trying to trick ourselves into BELIEVING we are not afraid...instead of taking our fears WITH US before God consciously. We take them their UNCONSICIOUSLY anyways! Heh.
I don't believe that God is condeming us for having fear at the craziness of the world...but I do believe that God does want us to learn that spending time with Him can really ease our anxiety more than we would think.
Let's just continue the journey in God's grace, man. Let's just keep pressing in to God. 
Love,
"All is full of love." -- Bjork
"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." -- 1 John 4:16b
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Truth Aficionado
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| Posted 10/4/2006 9:49 AM (GMT -6) | |
MephEternal said...
One of my greatest fears was being WRONG about this whole Christianity thing? The devil would hit me upside the head with this one a lot.
"What if it's not true?", I'd ask myself. "What if this is all just a big crock? I am giving my life to this and for what. For something that MAY or MAY NOT be true? Maybe I just oughta quit this whole deal...while I'm behind!"
This lead to my deep skepticism about Scripture and Christian belief in general.
This is where Doc and I were very alike. Faith came VERY HARD for me.
Meph, are you now ascertaining to Doc’s view on Scripture, essentially, while it might have some troubling areas, regardless, any alternatives are worse?
Love is like a ball in a game of catch: throw it and it will come back to you; hold onto it and that ends the game. Post Edited (sparknheart) : 10/4/2006 9:52:14 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 10/4/2006 9:58 AM (GMT -6) | | Spark:
Meph, are you now ascertaining to Doc’s view on Scripture, essentially, while it might have some troubling areas any alternatives are worse?
No.
I just believe that the Bible is true. I don't feel like there at that many troubling areas at all...because I feel like I understand God through God's Word better. I'm using it more as a story for my life and a portal into the throne of God.
And let me say this now...
The REASON why I'm testifying is because I have spent the last 6 years of my life talking to people on this board. Tom is the old head along with me. I know that people here have seen me at my MOST SKEPTICAL, MOODY, and DISTRUSTFUL of the Bible...or God's power...of all that.
Y'all have heard my rants. Intelligent rants, yes. But rants nonetheless that came from a VARIETY of anxieties dealing with my relationship with God. (One's theology and view of the world is, to some extent, necessarily autobiographical!) You've seen my passion and anger at God.
So...
It is TO YOU PEOPLE who have known the OLD me...that I say this too.
I want to use MYSELF as an example of the transforming power of GOD in Christ.
I could give a DAMN about what people think about me. Not that I don't care about people. I just don't get life anymore from what people THINK about me! (This is a healing in and of itself. I've been so arrogant in the past!) I don't get life from "being spiritual" or having people think that I am. I'm not trying to big myself up with all of this.
This is all to declary what's happened in my life to the glory of God!
This ain't about me.
I want to hold up what God's been doing in my life as testimony to what God can do IN ANYONE'S LIFE!
That's all I'm trying to do with this.
I'm happy to be as free as God has allowed me to be...and I want other people (especially my brothers and sisters in Christ) to be encouraged by the power of our God.
That's all.
"All is full of love." -- Bjork
"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." -- 1 John 4:16b
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 10/4/2006 10:26 AM (GMT -6) | | Love ya Meph Man. I myself have sometimes thought that all we've done ("conservative Christianity") is Christianized what was really important and that is the "brotherhood of man." I sometimes wonder how it's essentially that much different. But I just have to believe man. Thanks to you and the long time members for the talks. We're in this together.
Brandon
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, but vows to every purpose must not hold.--A friend.
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