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Renate, I regret that I have to go do some work right now because it has truly been a pleasure to meet you and talk with you! I hope to see you later. :)

Yes. But have you noticed I'm talking to a nice gentleman who does not have the gift or the sure hope that you do? :D And have you further noticed that he says he is happy despite the fact that he thinks life is temporary struggle and strife? ad that his trying to relieve what misery he can is...

d And then you die anyway. So it's just a temporary existence where you try to relieve some of the misery, try to shut out the remaining misery, grasptightly the few things and people that give you some temporary comfort and happiness and then die and cease to exist. This makes me think those...

I don't think you have been disrespectful at all! You have been nothing BUT respectful. I see less respect from some of my brothers in here, honestly. :) This goes back to being blind and not knowing. Being miserable and not knowing it. It is strange to me to think an atheist can say they are...

He knows when each of us is ready for love. Maybe you weren't really ready yet. I think I see rain. Ask again. Turn off your computer, go to a quiet room, and ask for what you need. A verse says to keep knocking on the door. There is a parable that may help. I'm going on memory here. There was...

It reminds me of a tv show I watched once. I watched a few episodes because I was stunned by what I saw. It was all of these really wealthy housewives and each episode started with snips of each of them saying things like: I'm rich and everybody wishes they were me. Or, I have a perfect life and...

I retrieved another that might help. Revelation 3:17 You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Similarly, it is only men who see they are destitute who will ask for help. Rich men (or men who think they're rich) certainly won't ask for help because they think they don't need help.

Ah that's a good one! :) Other translations say it more like...that those who think they can see might be made blind. Which ties into what we were talking about earlier. Men don't know they're blind. They think they can see. Since they think they can see, they certainly aren't going to ask a...

So when someone says, we are saved by grace through faith, and that faith not of ourselves - they are saying God saves men because He is kind and the way He saves them is through faith and that faith is a gift He gives them- it doesn't come from themselves or their mind or their debating.

IT is Ephesians 2:8 and I've copied it from the translation called NLT. Some don't like the translation but I can NOT understand KJV. 8God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. It is saying that God saved you by His kindness...

There is a verse that might possibly help you in your quest. I'll retrieve it for you. Be right back. :)

But how can a blind man see the evidence in order to state that it does not hold up to scrutiny?

No. :) I'm saying faith IS the evidence.

If evidence doesn't hold up to scrutiny, then how is anyone ever convicted of a crime?

For instance...I'm getting ready to cook some bacon and eggs. I think I will probably not burn myself. I don't have faith that I won't because there is no evidence that I won't. In fact, there IS evidence that I could burn myself because it has happened in the past, but there is no evidence that...

Because true faith does not just mean you think something. Faith is evidence. Have you read that verse?

Oh...I think I might understand, sorry. You mean why would I assume you didn't have faith?

Assuming what about you?

If I say I have faith that fairies exist, does that make fairies true? Of course not.