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To: kosta50; irishtenor; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr
Kosta to FK: First you will have to explain how do you know it was the Holy Spirit that ‘touched’ you and sent you to the scriptures?

Irish: Unfortunately, my dear Kosta, if we have to explain it to you, you haven’t received it yet. There is still hope, though. I will pray for you.

Kosta: So, I am the "bad" guy for asking? If I ask you to do a bunch of math problems and you come up with correct answers, is it too much if I ask how you solved them? And if you can't, there are two possibilities: (1) one-in-impossible chance that you guessed it or (2) that you cheated (i.e. lied).

No, you're not the bad guy for asking, Kosta, but I do find it a little troubling that you try to put me in the unenviable position of either answering your question to your satisfaction, an impossible task regardless of truth I have found, or being assumed a liar. :) Nevertheless, I can try again. I know it was the Holy Spirit because I believe that satan will not lead people directly toward Christ, to His word, to His faith, to His love. And that is exactly what this "entity" did for me. And since the Bible says that I couldn't have been leading myself (as there is no good in me to search for the one true God), and we eliminated satan, then all that leaves is Holy Spirit.

6,688 posted on 07/27/2008 10:17:50 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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To: Forest Keeper
I know it was the Holy Spirit because I believe that satan will not lead people directly toward Christ, to His word, to His faith, to His love. And that is exactly what this "entity" did for me. And since the Bible says that I couldn't have been leading myself (as there is no good in me to search for the one true God), and we eliminated satan, then all that leaves is Holy Spirit.

AMEN!

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace...

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. " -- Romans 6:14,21-22


6,691 posted on 07/27/2008 11:33:10 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Forest Keeper; irishtenor; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr
I know [sic] it was the Holy Spirit because I believe that satan will not lead people directly toward Christ, to His word, to His faith, to His love.

And the Bible reminds you that even Satan can appear as the Angel of Light. Sure, he can lead you to Christ, because Satan does not deny God; he simply distorts God by deceptive impressions we wish to believe.

And since the Bible says that I couldn't have been leading myself (as there is no good in me to search for the one true God), and we eliminated satan, then all that leaves is Holy Spirit.

I don't see how you "eliminated satan."  All you did was accept whatever was presented to you, and the Bible reminds us that what you see is not necessarily what you get.

Remember that the Antichrist will appear as someone Christ-like. That's the whole purpose of deception. The devil doesn't deny, he distorts, even ever so slightly, but sufficiently to make us miss the mark.

6,720 posted on 07/29/2008 8:36:00 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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