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Author Topic:   The experience of converting
Philip
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From: Albertville, AL, USA
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Message 3 of 73 (221155)
07-01-2005 12:36 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by notwise
07-01-2005 11:33 AM


Conversions great and small ...
(Notwise, very interesting and thank you for allowing all of us to rant here)
Some here might agree they’ve undergone not a few conversions great and small.
Once, as a psychology major and virgin, I experienced various (faddish) conversion-experiences. I even pushed your atheism conversion for a season. My own experience of atheistic conversion was rather appassionato if you will.
I converted back to a YEC (from OEC) this week after almost being evicted from a geology forum for ranting and calling Behe a YEC (my stupid mistake and I’m still profusely sorry to all offended).
But it now feels great to replace all my plate tectonics theories with catastrophic plate tectonics theories (involving a global flood theories). I mean, I feel like a new man transformed, resurrected, renewed, with lower cognitive dissonance, even. It’s like I dropped 100 pounds of baggage off my back or something.
Of course, the most astonishing and joyful conversion I ever underwent was becoming dead in Christ, buried in an apocalyptic earth, and risen with Christ. I recommend it to anyone as the way out of (1) sin and (2) Moses’ law of damnation to us all.
WARNING: to get permanently smoked in Christ, baptized in Christ, purged/risen in Christ (etc.) required:
1) an exceptionally hard-headed fundy evangelist to jar me into hell and back.
2) a miserably failed soul (myself) desperately trying to get permanent forgiveness and rock-meaning to life.

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Philip
Member (Idle past 4752 days)
Posts: 656
From: Albertville, AL, USA
Joined: 03-10-2002


Message 31 of 73 (224398)
07-18-2005 11:03 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by Chiroptera
07-05-2005 5:29 PM


Re: According to the Scriptures
You stated:
"A fundamentalist Christian believes in the truth of her religion, also not by faith -- her evidence is the subjective religious feelings that she experiences. I don't think it's very good evidence, but it's evidence nonetheless."
Most fundy's continue to cite the bible as proof itself.

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Philip
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From: Albertville, AL, USA
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Message 70 of 73 (234073)
08-17-2005 11:41 AM
Reply to: Message 64 by Tal
08-17-2005 10:15 AM


Re: The atheist Muslim
Please. If that were even remotely true then all homosexuals would be gone in 1 generation (because they wouldn't procreate <----Notice
(Please forgive my intrusion )
As if NS could ever explain conversion-experiences, homosexuality, religious dilemmas, lawlessness, hypocrisy, etc.

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