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To: nathanbedford

If you aren’t careful about just what you propose and how, you will just get bounced back.

Be careful about fighting the bible too much even if you are an unbeliever (and I would challenge you to look again at reasons to believe). This is, at least, the book that built the West. The Bhagavad Gita did not do that. The Koran did not do that. Results are not to be sneezed at, and we are silly to cut off our noses because we do not like our faces.


30 posted on 04/18/2015 4:02:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I believe the Bible is a pathway to individual salvation but an opaque guide to a successful theocracy.


31 posted on 04/18/2015 4:07:54 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

1. Admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care and direction of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly, on our knees, asked Him to remove our shortcomings — holding nothing back.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make complete amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of this course of action, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


35 posted on 04/18/2015 4:32:37 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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