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What if God really exists and He listens to our prayers and thoughts and sometimes shows himself to us in strange ways. A controversial amateur photographer from Australia is making a lot of waves commencing in 2011 with the discovery of a second shroud type image in the Rome Veronica Veil and now he claims in 2012 Jesus Christ heard his prayer after his mum and dad died in 2010 and gave him a sign of a cross of water on the cement ground interesting stuff to think about
1 posted on 02/05/2015 7:17:41 PM PST by purcre
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These guys are kind of like the fake faith healers.

Always pointing away from our relationship with God in our lives to dog and pony shows, bells and whistles etc...


2 posted on 02/05/2015 7:25:36 PM PST by ifinnegan
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Welcome to FR.
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3 posted on 02/05/2015 7:29:25 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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"What if God really exists and He listens to our prayers and thoughts and sometimes shows himself to us in strange ways."

Like hating the Seattle Seahawks?

4 posted on 02/05/2015 7:31:48 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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What if God really exists and He listens to our prayers and thoughts and sometimes shows himself to us in strange ways. A controversial amateur photographer from Australia is making a lot of waves commencing in 2011 with the discovery of a second shroud type image in the Rome Veronica Veil and now he claims in 2012 Jesus Christ heard his prayer after his mum and dad died in 2010 and gave him a sign of a cross of water on the cement ground interesting stuff to think about

Welcome to FR!

purcre
Since Feb 2, 2015

6 posted on 02/05/2015 7:45:16 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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Forget about these things! Most of it is a bunch of baloney!

Your only assured source of authority is the Bible. Find out WHY this is so, and then read it, knowing it is God’s inerrant and authoritative revelation to you ... and not these other whacky things you see around.


7 posted on 02/05/2015 7:58:43 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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I revel when God dumbfounds or even shakes to the core, one of us wee humans, with a miracle of precise evaporation or letting folks walk away from terrifying brushes with death with nothing but a scratch and an overwhelming feeling of gratitude at his ever present grace.


8 posted on 02/05/2015 8:00:06 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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Despite the fact that the image of “Jesus” on “Veronica’s Veil” looked like a paint spill, I clicked on the link to see the “miraculous cross of water.” I feel used and humiliated.

Is this “Gloria.tv” the new “Rick-Roll.”


18 posted on 02/05/2015 9:48:17 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Back when I was 21 years old and after a 3 week drinking binge; I knew my life was going nowhere. I fell to my knees in the bathroom one morning and prayed to God to guide me. After praying, I noticed the newspaper the old man had left laying there after one of his “reading” sessions. The first word that stuck out at me was the word “tax”(don't remember what the article was about); and I decided to try to get a temp job at the Tax Department filing returns, and maybe go back to school. The Tax Department wasn't hiring, but they referred me to another department. That department wasn't hiring full time, but hired me on a per-diem basis to do some clerical work. Within 2 months I got a full time job there, and signed up to take an entry level IT exam.

Twenty Seven years later I still work there, and now manage an IT production shop. I met my wife there; and we have a wonderful son and a beautiful 8 year old granddaughter. I believe without a doubt God answered my prayer that morning back in 1988 (Jan 21,1988 to be exact). Every night when I pray; I thank Him for kicking my ass into gear that day.

God exists and He answers prayers. Sometimes the answer is no. Other times we are too stubborn, proud, or ignorant to hear His answer. But He always answers.

19 posted on 02/05/2015 9:51:22 PM PST by skully (Who farted??)
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I would propose there are personal revelations, meant to reflect on God, not to publicize and in essence say, “Look at me.”


27 posted on 02/06/2015 6:00:28 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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