Yes, once one turns their life over to God, they are filled with the holy spirit. But that's not a possession. Again, a possession is where someone is taken over by a demon. They loose total control of their body. When someone is filled with the holy spirit, they do not loose control of their body. The holy spirit only effects their actions/decisions as much as they will allow it to happen for the holy spirit deals with your conscience. It doesn't literally force you to do or not to do anything. So no, not being deceptive.

amen

You two are just so funny.. Honeslty if one of you said god was white the other would say he was black. But it doesnt really matter.

Really you are both right.

It is totally stupid to fall in love with someone in a book.And if anyone basis their love on God on what is in a book, then they are a little sily. If you have read th Bible and feel nothing, then what you are saying is completely true.

But Cowboy is right as well God is more than a book, God does place his love inside you, Yep you can tell me I am delusional and I probably am, but Gods peace and joy, keep me constantly happy, I have a life that is rarely affected by anything around me.. Not because I dont have bad things happen to me, but because I always have the reasurance that God wont give me more than I can handle and he doesnt..
Yep now this could just be a fairytale I have concocted in my mind.
But in my mind God is real. so my little fanasy where God helps me though life, works.

I know that a lot of people wont like me saying that, and I am not saying that god is not real, but that to me he is very real.. It does not effect my belief if someone else doesnt believe that as long as thehy know that I am happy how I am..

Yep I am nieve enough for someone to throw a million things that may seem to contradict what I believe but nothing will change my beliefs..

So I really respect and enjoy what each of you say as you are both remarkable men. Who keep me constantly amused.

Anyway Luv you both and maybe there will be something on here one day that you will both agree on..

Nah I dont think that will happen

Acts 19:6
And when Paul had laid hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.


Cowboy ...would you agree that speaking in tongues points to demon possession ...

there is undisputable evidence that God exist as a character in a book but there is no evidence that God exist beyond a book ...that's why people have faith...to delude themselves that there is evidence

this is why claiming to love a character in a book that one can not even prove exist is little more than fantasy ....it makes the bible a Harleqin Romance Novel and places Jesus into the role of Fabio

No NO NO not Fabio, he just loves himself..

It would have to be one of those really lovely men, Have you read the Twilight series.
Well it would have to be somone like Jacob. Strong and true, who is faithful no matter what. He would have to stand between me and the world..

Oh well I guess thats what God does. But you see it doesnt matter to me, I have my delusional faith and it makes me happy.

Is it any worse then putting your faith in Money and then losing your job and the money disapearing.. Nope, people always put their faith in something, it may be a person, or themselves, it could be there ability to rationalise things.

But you see the thing for me is nothing will shake my faith, I have had years of hell and it never left me, nor did my happiness and joy.

So in reality although it is delusional it works. And yep I have had things happen that can be put down to miracles and they can be rationalised, but to me they will still be a miracle..

Oh and I love Jacob in Twilight he is the ideal hero...Hmmm so do my two daughters..

Oh and I did marry someone who could have very easily have murdered me, but he didnt so it worked out. And he still believes he loves me.

And I do fall in love with every hero in every book I read.



Now as for my children, they where brought up knowing about God, they where taught the bible.
I homeschooled them and they where taught responsibility, honour, and to enjoy life..

However, even though they all know the Bible better then most adults, they do not all Love God.

After I left my husband, he took my children and the church helped him keep them, they told my children that they had had visions of me coming back to him, if they stayed.
The children where told that I was going against God because i wouldnt go back and that their Dad had changed, they went to court with him and testified that they would hep him with the children and that they where safe and he was recieving counciling.
So the kiddies stayed, until their faith was destroyed and they didnt believe in God nor trust the churh. Thewy where left alone, bashed and suffered many things that should never have happened.

Ok so this is all off topic, but to me religion is very very wrong.

I do have a strong faith, but I have watched hypocrits (yes I cant spell that word and Im not looking it up) anyway I watched them destroy childrens faith by pushing their beliefs down the kids throats, and not really caring about the children and their welfare.

I do not care what anyone believes as it is your right to believe what you do.

However I do think that if a person makes the effort to go to church then they should live the life an not just talk the talk, because talk is cheap.

Well now my eldest daughter 21 believes in God but does not follow his teachings and will not ever join a church.

My eldest son,19 Loves God and basis his life around that. He is a youth leader and drummer in his churches band..

My next son 16 will not have anything to do with churches as he says they are all hypocrits and he only wants truth in his life. He will not even listen to Christian music. Yet he is still a reespectful young man, who goes to a Christian school, At school he tells his teachers exactly how he feels and will not have anything to do with praying or other christina things at the school, although he respects their rights to.

My younger 15, and 11 boys wont attend church at all, as they wont get mixed up with it again.
and my youngest daughter 13 still believes in God and attends a youth group.

So I guess the saddest thing for me is that normally The churches seem to do more damage then help..

I myself would not ever want to attend one again, I love God but hate religion and will not mix with people who believe they have all the answers and are right...I would much prefer someone who is real, faults and all, thats what makes them human..


Ok sorry I rambled on there but you really dont have to read it

Wow!

Amen Sister.

Wow!

Amen Sister.



Life is fun

Life is fun


Isn't it though!

No, not a demon possession, not even a possession to start with. Again, the Holy Spirit will not join with you less you invite the Holy Spirit in. And speaking in tongue isn't someone/something controlling you. It is the spirit itself speaking through you. Those words coming out, are the words of the Holy spirit. Not coming from particularly you, so the spirit isn't making YOU do something. That is why when one speaks in tongue it speaks a language no one knows but one or possibly more people know. Usually only one person will know what the person is speaking. This is cause when someone speaks in tongue they have a specific message for a specific person. So that specific person is given the ability to know what the person is saying when speaking in tongue.

"josie"....don't some women claim that Fabio the Man is a God....isn't that the same claim some make about Jesus

but I'm not sure that Fabio goes around claiming that the only way to God is through him ...but can we agree that only someone that was full of themself would say something like that ...

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"Josie" ...isn't that the story about a girl that fell in love with a dead guy that came back and bites people in the neck

...er...you do know that this is starting to explain why you love Jesus

isn't Jesus a dead guy that promise to come back to weld the sword of righteousness where the sun don't shine

but it's weird how Christian men claim to have fallen in love with Jesus and then claim that God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve





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Cowboy...it's no getting pass the speaking in tongues ....if The Holy Spirit comes into you and have you speaking in tongues like Linda Blair did in the movie " The Exorcist" then it's possession, especially if they have you speaking in foreign languages that you couldn't speak before they entered into you

this is why I always say that religion is nothing more than a belief in the paranormal that disguise itself as religion ...

Jesus is a vampire!

That is really funny!!!

didn't Jesus teach to drink of his blood


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erm.. I think the best is not to try to remember anyone's birth or death but only their activity, behavior and social/family values they created or did .

Still funny....

Jesus taught to drink of his blood and eat of his flesh .....don't you as a Christian do that "mylifetoday"

you can be in the next twlight series

your name "mylifetoday" ...can be changed to my-life-as-a-vampire"

Yes we do.

I have thought about how cool it would be to be a vampire sometimes.

If left to my devices, I generally stay up all night and get tired in the morning. So maybe I already am part vampire.

but I like my name, don't think I will change it anytime soon...

Yep you would have to be very very full of yourself or very sure that you where the way.

Or we could stick with the delusional theory