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To: Grig
We say read it yourself, give honest consideration to our side, and take whatever conclusion you reach to God and ask Him if your conclusion is correct and go with what God answers you.

Huh?

When someone does this, and comes away with, "It is false", then you folks say the person didn't ASK correctly, or some such.

You say that GOD will ALWAYS answer a person and a demon CANNOT answer for GOD.

We seem to have a logic problem here.

395 posted on 10/12/2007 4:58:33 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

“When someone does this, and comes away with, “It is false”, then you folks say the person didn’t ASK correctly, or some such.”

When God answers someone one thing, and someone else claims they got a contrary answer, do you really think that person should set aside the answer God gave to them based on the claim of some mortal?

“You say that GOD will ALWAYS answer a person and a demon CANNOT answer for GOD.”

No, God doesn’t always answer a person, there are conditions the person must meet. They must have faith in Christ and believe God will answer them, they must be sincere in their quest for truth, they must have real intent to know and live according to God’s will. Someone who is full of skepticism and clings to their bais, just goes through the motions with no intention of changing their life so they can claim they already did it next time they are asked won’t get an answer from God, but they can wind up claiming they got an answer for various reasons.

There is nothing stopping someone who’s intent is to find an excuse to reject it from latching onto the first thing that they can use to claim they are right, and Satan can try to deceive, but his deceptions will not be accompanied by the fruits of the Holy Spirit so they can be discerned and rejected by those in tune with the spirit of God and mistakenly accepted by those not in tune. Satan can also prompt people to lie outright, perhaps for the ‘good intention’ of ‘saving’ someone from Mormonism.

I don’t claim to be able to judge why some other person who claims an answer contrary to mine does so, I am only in a position to know of the answer that came to me. In the end, each person is individually responsible to get their own answer. I don’t care one bit what any other person claims to have been answered, I will take what God revealed to me personally over the word of every mortal on earth.

In the end all of us will stand before God and then nobody will be able to lay claim to having received an answer from God that God did not send. I’m perfectly comfortable with that, I look forward to it in fact.


408 posted on 10/12/2007 7:56:10 AM PDT by Grig
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