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[ConiferousDreams]

Hello friends,

I'm ConiferousDreams but you can call me by my real name Daniel if you like. I'm a proud baptist living in Washington State alongside all these godless hippie liberal heathens that infect this beautiful state. I attend the Bible Baptist Church in Aberdeen, WA.

My favorite Bible verse is Psalm 104:24 - "O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom has thou made them all: the earth is full of your riches."

One of my favorite pastimes is hiking, and I love to walk in the beautiful forests of Washington State to look upon the beauty and bounty of God's Green Earth that He created for us. That's how I chose my username - even seeing a simple conifer tree confirms for me the love of our Mighty God!

I will freely admit that I have been tested by Satan in the past but I hope that with my faith in God Almighty I will overcome the wicked one and join my Lord and Savior in Heaven when the time comes.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Welcome to our friendly forums!

[Zechariah Smyth]

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Hello Daniel!

Aberdeen, huh? I think that's where that weirdo Kurt Colbert was from. You don't listen to that grunge heroin music, do you?

Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

P.S. What kind of hunting do you do up there?

[ConiferousDreams]

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Thank you for the speedy welcome. I do have to admit that one of the reasons I found this forum was to ask for a bit of advice.

One of my good friends, Matthew, is also a Baptist, but he is struggling with his faith. He met a godless "hipster" in Seattle who confronted him about his beliefs and asked him to prove that God exists (ridiculous, right? But I digress.). Anyways, normally Mathew was very strong in his faith but for some reason he could not come up with "enough evidence" as the godless liberal put it to "prove" that God exists.

I told Matthew that I would help in any way I can, so I ask you this: how can I help my friend "prove" that Almighty God is real and show this heathen the error in his ways?

[ConiferousDreams]

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Hello Daniel!

Aberdeen, huh? I think that's where that weirdo Kurt Colbert was from. You don't listen to that grunge heroin music, do you?

Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

P.S. What kind of hunting do you do up there?

Hello Zechariah,

When I was younger and more foolish I will admit that sadly I did listen to Nirvana and other pagan bands. But since then I have renounced that devil's music and instead listen only to the sweet songs of the Word of Our Lord!

I don't hunt much but I have hunted for deer and elk twice before. It was fun but at the same time I regretted killing something that God made for me. Was I wrong to regret it?

[Mary Etheldreda]

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I told Matthew that I would help in any way I can, so I ask you this: how can I help my friend "prove" that Almighty God is real and show this heathen the error in his ways?

Oh dear. I don't know that you can. Faith doesn't come by evidence, it comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). I think all you can do is encourage your friend to read the Holy Bible and pray. Then, if he chooses to follow his flesh and forsake God, and insult the sweet Baby Jesus by embracing his animal instincts, I would shake the dust off my feet, as it were (Matthew 10:14). Walk away. He'd be revealing the fact that he is, spiritually speaking, a walking dead man. No need to feel sorry for him any more than you do the deer in the forests being eaten alive by a pack of hungry wolves.

[James Hutchins]

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Welcome Daniel. Tell me, don't you feel closer to Jesus when hunting, the sensation of the still warm blood running down your hands from a creature God provided you to kill while surrounded by the beauty of His work?

[Zechariah Smyth]

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Hello Zechariah,

When I was younger and more foolish I will admit that sadly I did listen to Nirvana and other pagan bands. But since then I have renounced that devil's music and instead listen only to the sweet songs of the Word of Our Lord!

I don't hunt much but I have hunted for deer and elk twice before. It was fun but at the same time I regretted killing something that God made for me. Was I wrong to regret it?

God gave animals to you to have DOMINION over them (Genesis 1:28). That includes killing them and eating them.



About your friend: why does he want to associate with non-believers? That's crazy!

YiC,

Zech

[ConiferousDreams]

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God gave animals to you to have DOMINION over them (Genesis 1:28). That includes killing them and eating them.



About your friend: why does he want to associate with non-believers? That's crazy!

YiC,

Zech

He doesn't want to associate with them; the pagan accosted him in public while he was on the bus in Seattle riding to his parish.

All Matthew wants to do is make the heretic see the error of his ways. How can he go about that?

[Peace Love and Drugs]

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Ah sweet man, I love trees.

[Zechariah Smyth]

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He doesn't want to associate with them; the pagan accosted him in public while he was on the bus in Seattle riding to his parish.

All Matthew wants to do is make the heretic see the error of his ways. How can he go about that?

Read Genesis to them. It explains everything!

Ah sweet man, I love trees.

Lay off the sauce, paddy.



YiC,

Zech

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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One of my good friends, Matthew, is also a Baptist, but he is struggling with his faith. He met a godless "hipster" in Seattle who confronted him about his beliefs and asked him to prove that God exists (ridiculous, right? But I digress.). Anyways, normally Mathew was very strong in his faith but for some reason he could not come up with "enough evidence" as the godless liberal put it to "prove" that God exists.

I told Matthew that I would help in any way I can, so I ask you this: how can I help my friend "prove" that Almighty God is real and show this heathen the error in his ways?

First, you need to understand faith.

As I explained HERE, faith is itself the evidence of God:

Almost every day, some atheist shows up here and says, "Prove to me that God exists, then I'll believe in Him."

Because atheists are generally slow-witted, they do not realize that having proof of something makes it impossible to believe in something.

Do you believe that ice is cold? No. You know ice is cold. Do you believe that the glass on your desk, from which you just sipped, is full of water? No. You know that it is full of water. When you know, you can no longer believe.

God does not demand that we "know" anything other than His Law. He does, however, demand that we believe. Anyone who refuses to believe? Damned to unending torment being burned alive in God's Lake of Fire.

John 3:18
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

But what exactly is faith?

The Bible tells us that faith IS the evidence!

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

You don't need an empirical study to "prove" God exists. If you had one, you'd not be able to have faith anyway.

No, your faith, and mine, is the evidence God gives us for His existence. It's better than any peer-reviewed research paper, let me tell you!

And I thank Him for it every day.

I don't hunt much but I have hunted for deer and elk twice before. It was fun but at the same time I regretted killing something that God made for me. Was I wrong to regret it?

How else would you eat it?

Were you planning to eat the animals alive?

That's more than a little disturbing, friend.

[ConiferousDreams]

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How else would you eat it?

Were you planning to eat the animals alive?

That's more than a little disturbing, friend.

Haha, no, I wasn't planning to eat them alive

All I was saying is that I felt a little odd having spilled the blood of something God made for me.

I felt a little bit better though once we brought them home; they were delicious

[Dr Laurence Niles]

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Ah sweet man, I love trees.

Yet another drunken mick

If it's not being semi comatosed in gutters selling their buttocks for chips it's setting off car bombs or joining the papist paedophile protectorate to perpetrate pernicious perverted penile penetration of pre pubescent posterior.

You people disgust me.

All the best.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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Haha, no, I wasn't planning to eat them alive

All I was saying is that I felt a little odd having spilled the blood of something God made for me.

But God made it for food. How would you eat it without spilling its blood?