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    My quest continues...

    Well, I have a lot to chew over. I have gotten a ton of really good responses from you all and will be busy reading and re-reading. Thank you all so much for your interest and your help. I know there is a God, so I can say...God bless you all. Dan
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    I would have to say, “knowledge, belief, faithâ€. First I must know that there is something to recognize as a conceivable truth, then to accept my understanding of that truth, and finally to have faith in that acceptance. An excellent insight, Mamre, very intuitive…but I must say that I...
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    Ridiculous? That would be like saying all those who have had questions over the past few thousand years are foolish and not worth the bother. I know you don’t mean that… You cannot, in all good faith, put forth an argument without defending that argument.
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    If you told me there was an oak tree on the hill behind my house, but I couldn’t see it, or touch it, or smell it, or sit in its shade, should I believe that it does truly stand where you say it does? If you and a hundred others wrote a book with many passages describing the reality of this...
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    I am humbled by the erudition exhibited by the many respondents to this thread, but most particularly the discourse between IVDAVID and PHYSICIST. IVDAVID ‘s magnificent dissertation is truly a work of art and is deserving of the utmost admiration and respect. You, sir, have put in...
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    Gee whiz... After four-thousand-years we cannot yet agree on a singular approach to a faith that is supposed to govern our earthly existence and lead us to everlasting glory. No wonder I am uncertain...
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    Yes, this is good. I can understand this reasoning and it helps me get past some of the objections I have had with what I percieve and what I have been taught. With these ideas I can try to move on towards some sort of understanding. Thank you for your insight and intuition... Dan
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    Mondar, I owe you an apology for the the unfair things I said in my last post. I drink a bit, and when I do I sometimes find myself saying things that I shouldn't. I stand by the general gist of my post, but without the unnecessory rancor. I really do love my fellow man, even without God's...
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    I take exception to this line of reasoning. If you have a hundred people in a room, unknown to each other, of different creeds and cultures and spiritualities, how many sociopaths would you have? It has been my experience that more people, regardless of their political, ideological, or...
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    I know what your point is. The inherent goodness of man comes from God, and is indicative of God's reality. I think it is a product of eons of social interaction, and that man has learned to some degree what it takes to survive amongst his fellows. Do unto others...CYA...what goes around, comes...
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    The sun shines, the stars twinkle, the grass grows, and my mother loves me...all of this I know without reservation. I just don't know why all of this has come to pass. I don't know how to come by the kind of faith you confess to. Surely all of this that we know as our lives and what surrounds...
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    As a kid we were church-going Presbyterians, and what steered me away from God was the church itself. I am not easily swayed by what I see or read in the media. My mother taught us to weigh the evidence and make our own decisions. I saw people who were Godly only on Sundays, and came to the...
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    Where did your faith come from? Was it epiphany? Was it taught? Was it ingrained in your upbringing? I have faith in many things. I have faith in the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the greenness of growing grass, the coming of springtime and its blush of new life on the land. I have faith...
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    How do you resolve the contradictions between the Bible and science and maintain your faith in the Bible as the written Word of God? Contradictions such as to how God created the world, and then fashioned man to be in His own image, created women from a rib, and brought forth all of the fauna...
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    I'm sorry...what do you mean by transitional animal?
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    Do the current scientific perceptions concerning the origins of the universe have any status in the theological community? This is not an arbitrary question. I need to know more about how theology resolves the reservations I have about the disparities between science and religion. Please bear...
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    I read, again, my opening post, and I must confess...I find it to have been that which I had claimed it not to be. Not only was it adversarial, but petty, nit-picky, and unfair to the members of this forum who are trying to do what they think is right and proper and correct in the management of...
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    Carol, I see only particulars when it comes to gender. I value all that might be said to me from anyone with a point of view. I have read many of your posts with great interest, and I think in my heart that the people around you are blessed. Dan
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    Need help...

    Thank you all for the kindness of your responses and your words of encouragement. I am perusing the contents of this site to familiarize myself with the structure and philosophies of the members. So far what I see in the majority is the love, compassion, and understanding that I have come to...
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    I was raised from childhood as a Christian, but as a young man not yet aware of his mortality, I became skeptical. I saw what I perceived to be hypocrisy in the church and could not reconcile this with what I had been taught of Jesus Christ and his message to all of us. I walked away from the...
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