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I thank you all again for your contributions, I have determined that there are few if any personal witnesses capable of articulating their personal experiences receiving the Spirit and how it felt to them and how I might expect to feel and know the Spirit should I believe I have been touched and...

So we're supposed to not trust our own emotions and seek testimonies of others? Isn't the Bible human testimony from Genesis to Revelation? Do we not aspire to it by faith and prayer? I believe God created us all to be free of mind and choice & offers us prayer to distinguish good from evil &...

Thank you all for your response, I hoped for more personal testimony. What does it feel like when the spirit is in you? What are your emotional feelings? How do you identify it's the spirit?

How do you know when the Spirit is in you? What does it feel like to receive the Spirit? Do you hear the Spirit? If so, what does the Spirit sound like? How can we receive the Spirit? I’d like to read personal accounts of Christians who know for sure they have received the Spirit.

You'll find that "struggling Christians" aren't very welcome here by some "holier than thou" preachers of moral standards. You'll need to remember that only Christ was without sin. I keep that thought whenever they denounce me. The blind instructing the blind.

I feel your pain brother. I’m 84 years old and I love women, especially pretty women. What I do is pray about it. Even though I know Christ knows my weakness for women, I confess often about it to him and ask if I sin I pray his forgiveness. The way I see it, in today’s world and modern...

Where does human love become idolatry?

I'll thank you all for your contributions! With Christ we have hope in a hopeless life.

Judge me as you will, I'll not judge you!

Exactly! I don't question God's perfect rights and abilities, I just would like to know why we can find several seemingly contradictions in the scriptures. I take the scriptures faithfully as God's word. I simply use the God given brain and intelligent abilities, (whatever they be), to wonder...

Doesn't that cause you to question why did God tolerate Solomon's 300 concubine yet blessed him in so many other ways and only lost favor of him when he worshiped idols with his foreign wives?

I've come to that same conclusion. Thank you! I can see that's the best answer.

I approach everything here "in faith." It's my faith I strive to improve here. Sometimes I wonder why.

The title of this thread is "Off Topic" because an off topic thread can't have a topic, right?

If biblical scripture is not to be questioned, then should we submit that God made a mistake by giving us independent thinking minds of our own and freedom? How are we to judge false prophets and conflicting religious beliefs?

Why is it that some alleged Christians think they're in a political forum or a college debating team? I'm not questioning God, I'm questioning biblical scripture and its seemingly contradictory text. I do it in search for answers, not opposing debates. Christ said, "Ask and ye shall receive...

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. He commanded “Thou shalt not kill” then in the days of Saul and David, God commanded them and the Israeli army to slaughter the Philistines, even their women and babies in the suck and their animals also. Explain the contradiction in these biblical...

What about the thief on the cross Jesus saved? Was he baptized?

Finding many seemingly contradictions in the Bible, my faith gets tested almost daily. I've come to accept the fact that understanding the Bible is a lifetime study and it's way to late for me to attempt understand. I simply have reserved the reality that I'll accept Jesus's words as I can...

I have noticed your disturbance with the idea. I believe love is what one does/displays affectionately toward another. I find no discrepancies in one displaying privately his/her love for a departed spouse. Either by the way of death or having to be separated for a time from the spouse...