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To: lbryce
I had my own problems with some 'church people' that didn't like the questions that I asked. I was always in trouble over that kind of thing when I was a kid.

I had to work through my questions myself. I believe that God guided me.

I don't have all the answers. I do know what I believe. And I do know what I've experienced in a near-death event.

Humans want answers to specific questions. I understand that. And some questions, humans just can't answer.

/johnny

31 posted on 04/26/2012 8:28:13 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I like your post a lot.

My pastor just did a sermon called, “Doubts and Questions.” His proposition was that even the strongest Christian will doubt or question God at some point - this is not a problem unless a person decides to continue to unbelief, using it as an excuse, or trying to trap believers ( i.e. as the Pharisees did with Jesus). Pastor said that questioning is how our minds are designed by God to learn and maturing requires that we ask questions, always on a deeper level than we have before.

“Every year that I live,” he said, “another question gets answered. Even the ‘dark night of the soul’ strips away our false systems of belief and leaves behind a purer faith.”

He mentioned Abraham, Gideon, John the Baptist, Thomas and the other disciples, Ananias, and even Jesus - “If it is possible, let this cup pass from me.”

We really can ask God anything! Believers ought to be very question friendly. (:


101 posted on 04/27/2012 11:54:05 AM PDT by .30Carbine (God bless you with the spirit of wisdom and understanding)
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