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As an ex-atheist

I say to fellow Christians, there should be no shame in believing unprovable and unverifiable claims

That is the point of faith

Proof is a high ground that is only nice to have in war

The Truth is that faith in Jesus is REST, in Him peace reigns supreme

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@NDisclosed86288 @Joeray @Curi_Christian Weather praying to or for, do dead humans hear prayer? Do they hear all prayer? Or just if you mention them by name?

Perfectly understood God is omniscient+omnipresent

Do dead people become omniscient+omnipresent?

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@NDisclosed86288 @Joeray @Curi_Christian Who though? Who do we pray to?

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@NDisclosed86288 @Joeray @Curi_Christian Which person or saint, whom if we pray to, would not make us spiritists?

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@NDisclosed86288 @Joeray @Curi_Christian Who is the best dead person to pray to?

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@RevReads289 There is no power in prayer only power to the One prayed to

There needs to be:
Power to hear
Power to answer

The same power to rise from the dead is the same power that hears and answers prayers

The power also needs to know you and discern your heart

Ascribe that power to God

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@1984_nate I think the key to Biblical Christianity is to talk about what you have read, maybe prioritize what is most recent

Hearing or reading people talk about it from different perspectives (including incorrect interpretation!) is a scatter graph of the actual truth of the Bible

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@1984_nate (I have read more of the Bible as an atheist this is my 1st believer read through)

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@1984_nate I see the dogmatic rifts between the different theological systems as a tool to push me to read around and verify.

Calvinists bless me in that way 😂

But until I read 100% and then maybe do a few re-reads would I consider myself actually biblical.

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@itisjustbill @adelethelaptop Once Paul had Jesus, look what he became

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@itisjustbill @adelethelaptop Mark 2
Jesus: The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Pretty much sums up they THOUGHT they knew the law better than anyone

Also note, Paul was a Pharisee that approved of the stoning of Stephen

Perfect understanding of the law, without Jesus, leads somewhere

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@pimomormon So, abortion

Murder or not?

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@iamrjknight @Heidel_bro1563 An example is the approach of using determinism to show that God is an indivisible and simple unstoppable force

Instead of a THE Biblically good unstoppable force

This nuance is lost in using the 5 points as a heuristic or mental model IMO

Not to knock it directly

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@iamrjknight @Heidel_bro1563 And at the core of all the theology is the the bulletproof goodness of God

Faith that Jesus is good frames theology and all interpretation of scripture

Anything that can lean away from this fact is not Biblical truth

There are ways to SEEMINGLY interpret well, failing this

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@Curi_Christian His goodness is proven

Therefore, the resurrection is true

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@Curi_Christian The evidence is enough to consider the truth of the resurrection

But I would hinge my faith on His goodness 1st before the resurrection

The evidence of His good is OT+NT

I think that's the key component to our faith, that we know we put it on an actual good God that loves

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@athiestboi This is all true

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@antitheistdad It didn't

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@JustinCPorter And biggest of all:

Jesus raised my son more than me, and He did such a good job I am almost thankful I was atheist for a while

Even that, there is some sort of cleansing in the end

There REALLY is no condemnation

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As an ex-atheist

I say to fellow Christians, there should be no shame in believing unprovable and unverifiable claims

That is the point of faith

Proof is a high ground that is only nice to have in war

The Truth is that faith in Jesus is REST, in Him peace reigns supreme

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@JustinCPorter What's crazy is that you get conclusions by yourself, that you discover theologians made long ago, reading the Bible alone with zero prior study

Just keep whatever 1st gospel you read as keystone

Everything just starts clicking and making sense