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Originally Posted by Less
Well, it's Sunday, so I suppose the God botherer has gone off for a dose of Salvation no doubt soon to return to us with his version of the truth reinforced by being surrounded by others of his ilk.
He has mentioned that he is of C of E persuasion, proudly boasting that it is our queens religion and she is the leader.
I was born to parents of that faith, I have never understood basing a religion on the wishes of a King that had less morals than a Tom cat.
He was an adultress, murdering, spoilt brat that only started the Church so he could get his end away and steal the money from the Abbeys.
Not really alot there to recommend it, but then looking around at the heads of other religions, history seems to like that sort of guy in charge of peoples Earthly souls.
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Be careful Less, look what MI6 did to The Queen of Hearts. You may be heading for the direction of the Tower to be incarcerated or maybe crashed into a concrete pillar. Having once complained to a Bishop and told to shove off (or words to that effect) I am hardly a Church of England adherent. It is true that at the Reformation it was probably the best church around but even then it was far from perfect. Indeed all churches are far from perfect. It has been said that if one found a perfect one then it would become imperfect the day we walked in the door.
I am a bible believing Christian. That means that I can be at one with anyone filling that description. Many people say they believe the bible, that is until they come to a bit that criticises them. That is when they make their excuses. There is a sentence in the bible that is so true. "They all of one accord began to make excuse." (Luke 14:18). Differing versions alter the wording slightly but they all mean the same thing.
I came to God at the height of the Charismatic revival. It was then that I had my eyes opened and ears unstopped. The bible that up to that time was a mystery and an enigma, suddenly was opened to me by the power of the Holy Spirit. Instead of being some old musty volume, the bible suddenly became alive and I read it like a best selling novel. This surely must be the power of God. As Ezekiel says, "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."
People reject God but in its place they just get misery. The The Holy Spirit is replaced by the bottle of spirits. Come now , and let us reason together , saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.