If you had bothered to READ what I wrote, you would know that I believe we ALL should/must have an objective standard to determine whether those "proddings" are actually from the Holy Spirit. There was never any reflection on you, personally.
Who do you rely on? Who tells you whether you are worshipping a false God or the one True God?
I, personally, attempt to follow only the Holy Bible. If something seemed to me to be from the Holy Spirit, but was contrary to the Holy Bible, I would know that my original opinion was wrong, and that the Bible was right.
Are you just more intelligent than I? Am I suppossed to come at this by the experience of your reality? Or my own.
If you had read what I wrote, you would know that these questions are, at best, a foolish insult.
If the tiki thing, lower case, wasn't meant as a little jab then forgive me.
It was precisely what I wrote: information I thought you should know. I am not certain, but it appears, (from this response):
My screen name, tiki is a derivative of a Proper name and has absolutely nothing to do with any pagan god.
that you did not know. What you choose to do with the information is your business.
And no I don't think that Paul ran around changing women's names. As I said, evil is in the heart not a name.
Again, if you had bothered to read what I wrote, you would know that I did not say anything about Paul "changing women's names." To remind you, here is what I wrote:
Do you suppose that Paul would have just said "Hey, catchy screen name, lady!" Or do you think he might have asked whether she was aware of the local goddess, to whom sacrifices were being offered, every day?
See? "ask whether she was aware." But you believed that I said something different.
I think you are going to be another person that I will not answer in the future.
This is (still) a free country.
I don't need to talk to people who are so presumptuous as to feel they know so much more than I do and know what I should believe and why.
If I wrote that I believed THAT, I was wrong. If you can't show exactly where I wrote that you are wrong. THAT is "Presumptuous."
You are not me, you have not experienced my experiences and you have not walked my path with God. You have absolutely no idea if I have the intelligence to fight my way out of a paper bag or whether I am a genius.
OK, can't argue with that.
And you and others of your ilk cannot force your image of God or religion on me
Now, you imagine that I belong to some "ilk." You have developed a substantial Belief System about me, all of which is false. You have ascribed evil motives and evil thoughts, and now you imagine that I am trying to "force (my) image of God" on you. These concepts, this Belief System, is derived entirely from your own emotional responses to what I actually wrote.
Whether you ever respond to me again, is perfectly irrelevant to me. Whether you deal effectively with the psychological projection you have demonstrated here, may well be very important to you.
DG
p.s. Remember, denial aint just a river in Egypt.
But it do run through here :>)