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AK4:

--- Quote from: Phil3:10 on September 12, 2008, 11:36:04 AM ---To All,
I have doubts all the time. My most frequent doubt is if the Bible is inerrant. I don't doubt GOD or HIS SON but I do doubt anything that man has his hands in.  Our GOD knows there is nothing good in the flesh and I know that HE alone draws fleshly man to HIMSELF. John 6:37 says it all, "All that the FATHER gives ME shall come to ME; and him that comes to ME I will in no wise cast out".
I am much like Dave in Tennessee and I do question many things. However, I think this pleases GOD in that I don't just accept everything but that I do search HIS word and seek HIS HOLY SPIRIT in guiding me to HIS truths.  My greatest peace has come from being released from the bondage of the Church System and just relying on HIM to reveal HIS truths in the still small voice that brings me HIS peace.
GOD has no limits, HE is in everything and HIS perfect will is going to be accomplished in HIS time frame.
I thank Ray Smith and this site for confirming to me that GOD is good, HIS love is real and HE is not the monster the Church System says HE is. Praise HIS HOLY NAME!
Phil3:10

--- End quote ---

I had tried to post something like that earlier, but my boss was coming so... click.  Anyway i dont believe i doubt, i think i question (maybe just semantics here).  A couple of days ago "out of the blue" i couldnt figure out the difference between responsiblity and blame.  It was eating me up because i already knew for certainty God was responsible for everything and for some reason i couldnt differentiate that from blaming God. And from what i was taught along time ago "its wrong to blame God" I looked up the meaning of both words and they are almost synonyms.  I started to question if what was revealed to me from God through Ray if Ray was correct in his interpretations.  This was beginning to become earth shattering to me. 

I knew Ray was correct and i knew something i was thinking was wrong. So i prayed and then stopped thinking about it, then the next time it came to my head i prayed and then stopped thinking about it.  Then last nite "out of the blue", while deep into a video game (yeah im 30 and still playing them) God stopped me and led to the book of Job.  Before this happened i kept remembering from what i was taught before while in babylon "Job didnt sin because he didnt blame God for what happened to him".  So i found that verse and what did it say "Job did not sin by charging God for wrong doing". 

What an eye opener!!!  I felt so relieved so happy and i got that feeling you just cant describe when a Truth is revealed to you.  For me It was saying we can say God is responsible (blaming so harsh of word) for what happens in this world, but who are we to tell God that He is wrong for doing whatever He does.  Now theres a big difference.

Anyway like what i got at the bottom of my all my posts i dont think (at least for me) i doubt-- i just might question to get a even deeper meaning and this in the end just strengthens my faith

Anthony

OBrenda:
Great question,...and the answers reveal great depth to everyone heart...WOW!

I have tried about 4 times to Post a reply and keep losing electrical power... :P
Each time I get back online and read more responses.
Some replies have answered the question in a narrow and direct way,
and with more replies, layers are added, the subject gets bigger and more profound.

You know some just can't get all their Brilliance out in a few sentences. ;D  ;)
Let us be Blessed with the Grace, to allow others to cross our "T''s and dot our "i'"s.

Kind of like making an Itialian Spagehetti Sauce...
Adding Garlic, Bitter Herbs, Meat, Sweet Herbs, Onions, Peppers and maybe just a dash of brown sugar...
you can throw in the mushrooms,[ I don't like them myself :P ]

What I'm trying to say is....what a beautiful Feast!

rk12201960:
nope.
Not at all.

Randy
 ;D 8) ;D

Robin:
Kevin

I believe it is nothing short of a miracle that any of us are able to believe what we believe. Everything in this world opposes the truth.

God spent 5 years teaching me that there is no free will and taking me out of the church teachings. This is before I found Ray. I was full of doubt and fear, but God just kept dragging me. I thought I was crazy. How could this be truth when the whole huge church believes otherwise? My pastor told me my beliefs would only lead me to despair. God showed me the "beast" before I found Ray.

At that point I could not prove hell wrong. I could not get past the word "eternal" even though I had all the scriptures of all men being saved. It was a contradiction I could not solve. That put me in a greater panic because I knew that God was sovereign and I had no choice in my destiny. I saw the beast and knew I was powerless to save myself. I don't think there is much scarier than seeing you are the beast, seeing that you have no free will or power to change that, and still believing that there is a hell. Having the huge church confirm that I was going to hell and being able to push forward and believe God in spite of all this was only by God's grace.

After learning all this God was completely silent for 10 years. The doubt then was so overpowering that I was holding on by a thread and begging God not to abandon me. I learned that I can't trust myself. I can't trust that I am not deceived. I am only at God's mercy to see me through and keep me from deception. I searched for others. I went to different churches when I heard something on the radio that sounded like what I believe. I searched the internet. It was all useless because one lie and one false truth canceled everything that may have initially resembled truth. I kept hearing the pastors words that my belief would only lead me to despair. That instilled even more doubt, but I knew what I learned was the truth and couldn't let go of it. I thought maybe I committed the unforgivable sin and was doomed.

One day I burst into tears and told God I knew he had a remnant spread out all over this world. I was on my knees praying and asking if there was a teacher anywhere in this world that God would lead me to him. If there were others anywhere in this world please let me find just one other person. I did have my brother, but I wanted to find the body of Christ.

2 weeks later I was looking for a poem to comfort a friend in grief and stumbled onto BT. The first thing that caught my eye was the free will series. I laughed and cried and couldn't find one lie. Not one in around 120 pages. I was looking for a lie expecting to just walk away as I've done so many times. I could not walk away.

When I read the hell series I was very cautious. At first the only thing that kept me reading was the fact that there was no lie in the free will series. Then I read the explanation of the word "eternal". There is was. The answer to what I saw as a contradiction. The answer that allowed me to finally know that there is no hell. It was the only thing keeping me from believing that all would be saved.

Rays teaching about who Christ is and what the Holy Spirit is was the hardest to accept. I kept reading and studying until I understood it and was able to believe it after much prayer. I was actually physically ill for 2 weeks trying to work through it.

It was a lot to take in. First there was the shock that I finally found others. Then the new truths that I absorbed as fast I could. I was so thirsty and hungry I was like a starving person eating for the first time in 10 years.

I can see how it can appear that some of the wording in posts can seem like a cult, but you have to remember that as far as we know Ray is the only one we've found who is teaching the truth that we believe in. That alone has the appearance of a cult to those who don't believe the same truths. I can imagine that there was the same appearance in the days of the disciples when they were going from town to town teaching the new truths they learned. I'm sure the new believers and followers used the same words about Peter and Paul. I'm sure the unbelievers and religious leaders in that day also believed they were a cult.

John 10:4-6

4And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

EKnight:
When it comes to the "Hell" doctrine I have no doubts that it does not exist.  And when it comes to my family, I rejoice in that knowledge but not when I hear of the mother that microwaved her baby or the soldiers in Congo who are raping women for all to see from the ages of 3 to 80. It is then that I wish there was a fiery hell.  I'm sorry but I just can't help myself.

Eileen

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