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Originally Posted by Straker
Sounds awesome but I would need some sort of evidence to support any of those claims... If someone offered me all that I'd assume it was some sort of dodgy pyramid scheme and I was gonna get fleeced when it was time to cash out.
*I know religion is a bitch of a subject and incredibly emotive so no offense is intended with anything I say.*
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No offense taken. I often learn the most when I speak with someone with different views. We should all be able to talk about important things with good will. Free marketplace of ideas. Belief systems are emotive, I've noticed, both for and against things.
What I describe does sound good. You want proof? I think the most important thing to remember is it's not about information or about what I state I believe. It's about relationship, trusting in who God is. Relationship begins with recognition, then trust, then experience.
Think of a loved one: wife, mother/father, friend. How can you know if they really love you? Can you know? If they love you, and you don't believe it, does that make their love false? If they love you, and you don't trust it, you can't receive it. If there's no trust, forgiveness, there's no relationship. I have experience with a stone outside, but I don't have a relationship with it.
There's evidence everywhere. You could ask for proof, and some powerful being, or illusionist, could perform these amazing things before you. But after you saw it, you'd realize there's other ways to explain it. And it doesn't mean you can 'trust' that person. There's a trust in someone, through relationship, through experience.