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"BTW Though you say you don't get into the new age stuff...your statement is exactly what they tell people who become their new initiates. So be careful you're not already carrying their message. - caww

Please don't "pick and choose" portions of my post for the purpose of trying to take me to task... I also stated in full: "I believe that we have to keep an open mind to God's power, and a closed mind to those that would try to twist God's word to fit their agenda. I believe that the instructions provided to us by God are not to be "adjusted" for political correctness or for the purpose of appeasing scientists."

I meant no harm in my original post. I explained my belief and you have decided that I must need a lesson of some sort. You make the statement "How much greater can you get than that??????? without taking on the New Age Spirituality mantra?" and then follow it up with "Furthermore God has placed 'barriers' to our understanding of His infinate ways...and that with purpose." To say that "God has placed 'barriers' to our understanding of His infinate ways" and yet to chastise me for saying that I believe we have to keep an open mind to God's power is quite a puzzlement to me... For you to make your statement, you must acknowledge that God has ways that we are not meant to understand, yet you are telling me that I am supposed to be closed minded to his power and to accept the Resurection of Jesus Christ and the coming resurections as "enough." I do accept the Resurrection as the ultimate demonstration of God's power thus far. But God made me as a curious creature that is to study and to follow his instruction and one that wonders "how much more there is that I will understand when I get to heaven". I am not just an automaton that reads, downloads a program, and then lives my life as some sort of drone. I don't take on the mantra of New Age Spiritualism... whatever that is supposed to be. I just read my bible and understand what it is that God requires of me:

Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Luke 6:46 Why do you call me, `Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?
Luke 10:25-28 [25] On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" [26] "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?" [27] He answered: " `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, `Love your neighbor as yourself.'" [28] "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."
Mark 10:17-20 [17] As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" [18] "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone. [19] You know the commandments: `Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.' " [20] "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
Mark 10:21-23 [21] Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." [22] At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. [23] Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"

To me, to wonder about the greatness of God is to allow me to learn more...

I know that you may have had good intentions here, but I have to tell you that your method and attitude speaks so loudly that I can not hear what it is you are trying to say. I will not be spoken down to by someone that is trying to read more into my statements than was intended, and I will not argue with that person. With that, I will say that I hope God blesses you, and that you may wish to think more strongly about how you approach people that may have not worded something exactly as you would have. You might alienate someone with whom you had more in common than you would think. You really don't know me and have tried to compare me to some New Age believer. I really find that offensive and will end the conversation here...