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liquidlounge said:
No, he's blessed.

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usulpsychonaut said:
Does this mean no drugs, no music, no art, only volunteer allot of time to help people?

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The Bible does call each man to give up their sinfull ways, and repent.

James 4:4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 

Now does that mean a true christain won't sin? no, they will continue to sin for the rest of their lives.

But as Paul put it so well;

Romans 7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 
Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

But the point is, as they look intently into the "mirror" (Bible) and see their sins and evil ways, that they will in the "doing" not mearly "listening" work on changing their life.
A true follower is never truly free from sin, or perfect (it's by God's power and grace) that we are made righteous, but as they grow in their faith they will start to overcome them.

Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 
Ephesians 2:9 not by works, so that no one can boast. (Our works don't save us, they prove we are saved )

In fact i am confident that God allowed magic mushrooms (and the problems it's caused me) into my life to;

Help bring me closer to him (stopped me being lukewarm towards him) ,
Overcome my depression ( if you followed the * Tasmania season 2012 * thread, you would have read that i've wanted to die, and had that feeling alot),
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/16541754#16541754
Increase my faith (removing the weak faith i used to have, it's still weak, but it's getting stronger, oddly the more intently i look at God's word),
And to show my evil enemies that, God is with me  and to demonstrate to them God's love, to repay evil with good. God can (and does) use bad for good.

And maybe, just maybe, to share ( Like others on here ) his awesome message of love and forgiveness for a sinner (That's me 100% ) on this site
(and all around the world).

I know this is a crazy idea, but what if God made some of his children suffer with drugs, depression, alcohol, or whatever it maybe to be able to reach into the lives of non believers who struggle (or not) with these very things, could God, in fact burden a follower of him with a sin or a struggle, so that he could use it for a good purpose and to save the lost?

get outta here, that's crazy talk


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Help on the Way said:
I think the Newness of Christianity is less of an issue than the fact that it is full of contradictions and doesn't really make any sense

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Can you state some contradictions please and just because you cant make sense out of something does not mean it can not be true. That's like saying quantum mecanics can not be true because I dont understand the physics.

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Marukai said:
I don't Believe in the bible because of it's craziness and hypocrisy when it comes to Easter being a holy day. I look to things like the scientific continuum.

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Can you explain how the Bible turns Easter into a hypocrisy? Have you actually read the Bible? Not attacking, just asking...

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Marukai said:
I don't Believe in the bible because of it's craziness and hypocrisy when it comes to Easter being a holy day. I look to things like the scientific continuum.

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Can you explain how the Bible turns Easter into a hypocrisy? Have you actually read the Bible? Not attacking, just asking...

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Aiko Aiko said:
My point is that most people who bash the Bible have never read the book in the first place and to be fair, most Christians have not either...

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Aiko Aiko said:
True, but again, you have to read it first..

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Marukai said:
I'm not trying to convince anyone. I am just exploring what everyone's perspective is about the Bible. The title of this thread also mentions Islam. I have not gone deep into discussion about Islam because many are very unfamiliar with Islam. My reasoning behind Islam is the fact the Zoroastrianism was the religion of Ancient Persia It was not a religion that has extremist aspects to it. I still haven't been able to figure out why Islam came to take Zoroastrianisms place.

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Marukai said:
Why read something that has virtually no meaning to life in general. Some of the verses within the bible are quite nasty when referring to sorcerers or witches. Yet the pastors and popes do things that are really sinful. A perfect example would be the show on FX American Horror Story: Asylum. Sister Jude is a heavy drinker in her earlier days and then becomes a nun to become miss holy with God. The Demon possessed Sister Mary Eunice convinces her to drink wine. She then does in fact drink the wine and gets so drunk that she starts talking about her incident running over the girl on the bike and never doing anything to help her.

These types of things are things that do occur in the Christian religion. It's quite comical. The tea party people are heavily involved with Christianity but when you look at them in depth... They are nothing but trashy people trying to become powerful.

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