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To: kosta50
FK: "Then later, the Spirit touched me and led me to want to know more about my faith..."

Oh,please, don't flatter yourself! Just how do you know it was the Spirit? Everyone uses that phrase. I think it's using the Lord's name in vain, as some kind of warranty.

Really??? I'm full of myself because I dare to say that the indwelling Spirit of God leads me??? Words just fail me.

How do you know it wasn't Satan distorting your views? The answer is plain and simple: you don't know.

I'm going to take a wild guess here and go way out on a limb. I am actually going to say that satan did not lead me to want to know my God better. I know, I know, it sounds crazy, but the scripture holds me to it. I cannot serve two masters. Therefore, I know, and I know for sure. :)

2,286 posted on 02/04/2006 8:54:51 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper
I'm going to take a wild guess here and go way out on a limb. I am actually going to say that satan did not lead me to want to know my God better

Your enemies lead you to God, FK. Evil sends us to God when it shows its true ugly face. As St. Nikolai (Valdimiriovich) says:

"Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not Enemies have driven me into Thy embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.

Enemies have made me a stranger in worldly realms and an extraneous inhabitant of the world. Just as a hunted animal finds safer shelter than an unhunted animal does, so have I, persecuted by enemies, found the safest sanctuary, having ensconced myself beneath Thy tabernacle, where neither friends nor enemies can slay my soul.

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. They, rather than I, have confessed my sins before the world. They have punished me, whenever I have hesitated to punish myself. They have tormented me, whenever I have tried to flee torments. They have scolded me, whenever I have flattered myself They have spat upon me, whenever I have filled myself with arrogance."

2,288 posted on 02/04/2006 10:44:21 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Forest Keeper
I'm full of myself because I dare to say that the indwelling Spirit of God leads me???

To use the wisdom of Athonite Archimandrite Sophrony, who says: "The Holy Spirit comes when we are receptive. He does not compel. He approaches so meekly that we may not even notice."

Humility, FK, humility.

2,289 posted on 02/04/2006 10:48:37 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Forest Keeper
I am actually going to say that satan did not lead me to want to know my God better

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but your spelling of satan with a lower case "s" is usually how the Orhtodox write it, to show their complete disdain for him, although it is a proper name.

2,290 posted on 02/04/2006 10:54:00 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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