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29292. anomie - 10/21/2008 10:30:25 PM Jen is like many other self-styled "Christians" who say the most outrageous, unbiblical things and then deny it when asked specifically about the implications of their assertions and criticisms. I think it springs from their idea that they have a "personal relationship" with God, and can therefore pretend to know his mind and his will regardless of what their own scripture says. But really, they mold their God to fit their own prejudices, greed, and lack of personal ethics. That's not to say Jen is unethical, just that she can shape a God to fit her ethics. In this case her God would probably NOT bless socks. But is she absolutely sure? 29293. jexster - 10/22/2008 2:40:23 AM In what we Catholics call my "apostolic mission", I am graced from time to time with what we Catholics also call "the charism of discernment of spirits" (Galatians 5:16-24)
Bearing in mind that it is very difficult to apply this Gift of the Spirit in cyberspace, it is not impossible.
I believe there is a distinct possibility that Jen suffers demonic possession. 29294. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/22/2008 4:32:50 AM Ohioans--God's chosen people . . .
29295. Jenerator - 10/22/2008 1:15:48 PM Jen is like many other self-styled "Christians" who say the most outrageous, unbiblical things and then deny it when asked specifically about the implications of their assertions and criticisms.
I think you have me confused with someone else.
I think it springs from their idea that they have a "personal relationship" with God, and can therefore pretend to know his mind and his will regardless of what their own scripture says.
You haven't been paying attention. From day one, 11 years ago, I have been claiming the the Bible is the plumbline for our beliefs. If what we believe or think contradicts scripture. SCRIPTURE is the authority. I have always admitted to being infallible and I have never claimed to know all of God's thoughts. However, we do have his scriptures and we can glean quite an insight into his nature by studying him.
But really, they mold their God to fit their own prejudices, greed, and lack of personal ethics.
Again, I think you are very confused.
That's not to say Jen is unethical, just that she can shape a God to fit her ethics. In this case her God would probably NOT bless socks. But is she absolutely sure?
This is so ridiculous. I don't pick and choose what scriptures I like. I don't then pick and choose bits of other religion to fit into my own beliefs. You are seriously, seriously confused anomie, and I think it's because even though you are an atheist, you feel sentimental toward the Church and feel the need to defend. It's making you uncharacteristically irrational.
29296. Jenerator - 10/22/2008 1:21:41 PM I believe there is a distinct possibility that Jen suffers demonic possession.
Seriously, I challenge you Jexster. Go to your nearest Priest and ask him the following question:
Father, I am an unrepentent homosexual who likes young boys. I often demonize and sexualize young women, and I am known for being spiteful, hateful and downright hysterically obsessed with Republicans. I use profanity to suit my own purposes and my speech is peppered with vtriol. If Christ were to come back today, what would happen?
In other words, you need to worry about yourself. 29297. judithathome - 10/22/2008 1:59:29 PM Well, if McCain gets elected, he can just rely on Plain to rid the coutry of the scourge of sin. I'm almost certain she would be happy to set aside parts of the wilderness in Alaska as camps for the evil homosexuals. 29298. thoughtful - 10/22/2008 4:07:39 PM antinomianism 29299. anomie - 10/22/2008 6:47:11 PM Jen, you're right about one thing. The whole exchange has been ridiculous. But you continue the absurdity of it all by calling me "irrational". You give serious consideration as to whether a God has or has not blessed a pair of socks and you call me irrational. Look again and you'll see that I have been perfectly rational while having a little fun. 29300. wonkers2 - 10/22/2008 8:24:19 PM Anybody else seen "Religulous?" I thought it was pretty funny. 29301. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/22/2008 11:56:10 PM It's on my list, wonk. 29302. jexster - 10/22/2008 11:56:13 PM
I'm a BIG fan
29303. jexster - 10/22/2008 11:56:55 PM Grapevine Tejas!!!! 29304. jexster - 10/23/2008 12:01:00 AM Prayer Against Demonic Possession
It thinks I am kidding! 29305. jexster - 10/23/2008 12:04:25 AM Mark 5
They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes.* 2And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. 3He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain; 4for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones. 6When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him; 7and he shouted at the top of his voice, ‘What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.’ 8For he had said to him, ‘Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!’ 9Then Jesus* asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He replied, ‘My name is Legion; for we are many.’ 10He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding; 12and the unclean spirits* begged him, ‘Send us into the swine; let us enter them.’ 13So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned in the lake.
14 The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened. 15They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they were afraid. 16Those who had seen what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine reported it. 17Then they began to beg Jesus* to leave their neighbourhood. 18As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 19But Jesus* refused, and said to him, ‘Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.’ 20And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.
29306. jexster - 10/23/2008 12:05:42 AM Mark 4:9
And he said, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’
29307. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/23/2008 12:11:10 AM 
29308. jexster - 10/23/2008 12:18:11 AM Won't do any good to take itself to Benny Hinn. He's another evangelical phony 29309. jexster - 10/23/2008 12:19:23 AM The Spirit spoke when I penned "Andrea Yates". Took me a day to realize what He was saying 29310. wonkers2 - 10/23/2008 12:50:45 AM I wonder how Bill Maher missed including Benny Hinn in Religulous? 29311. wonkers2 - 10/23/2008 12:51:12 AM Or our Jex and Jen!
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