say there was no prophets and you did not hear of Abraham, moses, Jesus, Muhammad or any other prophets. and there was no holy book (Torah, Bible, Quran) that you can look at to guide into believing. what your heart will really believe? \n\nbe honest.\n\ni believe the heart has a secret code that has the answer for faith. for example when we hear this senstence (God is only One) we know it's the true but we don't why it's true. our hearts told us that whoever created all of us is just One God. so what truly ur hearts says (ignore your religion for a while)
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Okay, I think I can answer this honestly because I do not practice an "Organized Religion".  \n\nMy heart says we are all the same and we all have the same Creator.  I feel that because our Creator is so vast his children exemplify a mere fraction of what is possible within Him, but it would explain why we come in many shapes and colors.  \n\nI feel that the many religions popped up because many prophets were sent to Earth to teach us.  After the prophet ascended to Heaven people took note and began to practice their teachings and this would explain why we have several different religions.  \n\nI feel we are simply here to serve and help one another and protect the earth.  I feel we must acknowledge our creator and praise him through prayer, giving thanks and by living harmoniously.  It is like you said, faith comes from within and it's home is your heart so I think as long as you acknowledge your higher self and your creator faith will lead you in the direction of the Divine.
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The  Bible is God's Holy Word.  He inspired men to write down what he wanted us to know about him.  Nothing has been added or slipped in as you put it.   There are no lies in the Bible.  Just because you cannot understand it, you think that it is full of lies.  I suggest that you talk to a pastor to answer your questions.   I believe that the bible is true all the way through.  I think that you need to examine your heart and your relationship with God.  If you accept Jesus as Lord and Savior of your life, then you don't need to question the bible.\n\nGod will reveal himself to you through his word, if you just open your heart and allow him to do that.  I will be praying for you.
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hi.. First of all, I would like to congratulate you for choosing the way of Christ.\n\nI'll try to answer your question to the best of my ability.\n\nI believe that when God speaks about All flesh\nin Joel 2:28 "And i shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions."\nHe meant the believers or someone who is being prepared for the Lord's works.\n\nIf you check sub chapters before that verse, God talks about A call to repentance and the land refreshed.\nThe Lord obviously speaks about the people who repent and refreshed into the new creation in Christ (believers).\nThus, I conclude that All flesh, in Joel 2:28, means All believers\n\nThat's why it is important to always read at least a chapter or two before and after the verse.\nFor the bible works as a whole; we should avoid reading bible verses by chopping it individually. If we do that, there is a chance for us to take the verse out of the original context. \n\nAnd, yes there are still prophets appointed by God.\nand as it is true that there are true prophets, there are also false prophets/teachers.\n\nand your question is How we can tell the true from the false one, right?\n\nthere are 3 steps for us to know that a prophet is a false one or not:\n1. God says "My People perish from the lack of knowledge." It is very important for us to read the bible and pray everyday to build a sweet and intimate relationship with God. And also sharpen our knowledge about God's characters.\nWe know that Jesus has warned us about the false prophets/ messiahs in Matthew 24:24-28. So, when there are news about  messiahs that come to deliver us from sin, we knew that we have to be careful with those fake messiahs. We know in our heart that Jesus Christ is our only messiah that no one comes to the Father without going trough Him.\n\n2. From reading the bible everyday and become more and more alert and sensitive to God's voice, we knew that the true prophet sent by God will NEVER contradict the bible.\nSo, when a teacher/prophets come to you and said that he is the messiah or something like you should divorce your husband, we know immediately that this prophet is a false teachers and should be avoided.\nRemember! the bible is the ultimate guide that you should use to check whether a prophet is false or not.\n\nwhen they go against the bible, don't waste your time.\nPack your things and go.. Don't bother listening to them.\n\n3. What if the prophet looks and sounds fine for now...but in the future, he will finally shown his true self. how do you know  that he's not going to trap you in his web of lies. For we know that the devil is cunning and deceitful.\n\nWell, go and look in matthew 7: 15-20.\nIt is okay and even recommended to test those people.\nDon't accept them immediately just because they said they are prophets.\nDon't be rude to them, but keep your Spiritual alert system on all the time.\nTest the fruits and the labors. For the things that came from the Lord always bring forth peace and goodness.\n\nTake whatever good and biblical inside. but, disregard the weird teachings. Keep alert and pray all the time for the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth to you about those prophets.\n \n\nHopefully that helps,\nIn jesus name,\n\n\nAmen
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Somewhere in Psalms, it says " A fool in his heart says, there is no God"\nIt isn't new. There are very active apostates trying to destroy your spiritual life. They think it's funny because they belong to Satan and don't even know it. Pray for them to be delivered before it's too late. As to prayed for guidance to the truth, you are "RIGHT"...\nThere is only one true church. It was set up by God himself. Look in Isiah and you will find a passage that says "You are my witnesses". \nGod is a spirit. He requires us to pray in spirit and truth.\nThose are the prayers he hears,and they must be directed to him through his son Jesus. Prayers directed any other way except to Jehovah through Jesus are not heard by him.\nNo chants, no multiple prayers counted by beads. No gazeing at images. Private, personal, heart felt prayers properly directed will be heard. Yes very often answered in A POSITIVE WAY, but not always a yes.\nOften your prayers go far beyond your thinking......only Jehovah knows what is best. Make him you life long companion, there is a great reward in it for you.
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For those who believe, the Bible is a living book.  Which means that the words today are as true as they were yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  When you find new understanding of the scripture it is a little of both going on.  God knows that no one can understand everything all at one time, and he knows that we all learn in different ways.  When scripture messages are "revealed" to you, that is a revelation that God sent to you in a way that you needed to understand it at a time you needed to understand it. Now if you interpret, and it is not God's will, he will find a way to "reveal" that too.  Because if you believe and are truly faithful, God will always provide you with the tools and the information you need.  So, even if you interpret (yourself) and it is a wrong interpretation because you got in the way of your own understanding, God will reveal it to you when you need it.  That is why being a Christian is a journey.  If we all had the ability to read, understand, and apply absolutely everything, then the journey would be over. So, sometimes you will be confused, sometimes you will stumble...but if you are a believer and you ask...he will pick you up when you fall. Just be open and accepting of your revelations as they come and keep studying. Good luck and God Bless.
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I seriously doubt it, depends on who you are though. If your a real prophet, then GOD will give you the vision, and later, as you try to understand it, GOD will show you the explanation---also, GOD confirms things with two or more witness's. If one or more people come up to you and say "GOD showed me this" and it matche's your's, then I'd start to take it seriously. It's tricky. It's tricky.
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I love your question....\nNow I finally get a chance to show a side that a non-believer can see..\nI did not grow up in a family that had a belief system..\nBut yet something was there that pushed me \nI had no formal education on GOD \nBut yet something pushed me...\nI should have been dead atleast 4 times over \nBut yet I am still here and each time something pushed me...\n\n\n*I used to be a fence person . In the sense that I believed in a GOD but I wasn't really gonna give up anything just to believe..\nWhich of course I found out later that really the opposite is true.. You really don't give up that much..\nBecause this world doesn't have much to offer anyway..\n*I tried Budda, New Age. Sooo many self-help books that my mind started to get confused as to what was true..\n*I  have read the Quran...And read on Hindu beliefs...\n*I have gone it alone and investigated every possible scientific fact that life was not created ...I have read the BIBLE and correlated those facts with science...\n* I have done everything possible to make sure what I was doing was indeed the right thing...\n* I have lived on both sides of the railroad tracks.. I have been homeless,and did alot of other things that I am not proud of BUT thankful that I did do these things because without them , I wouldn't be where I am ...\n\nMy Belief system was not born on just reading the BIBLE and taking its words as gold.. \nI questioned everything ..I researched everything ( and I still am researching and studying :))of course now because I want to learn and not because I am trying to find a hole in the BIBLE.\n\nMy conclusions....\n\nNo way that our existence just is...\nNo big bang theory... ( that has been disproven by more than just one scientist )\nThe probability that the predictions of the BIBLE are wrong is impossible . Why because some of the predictions dated before the events ever happened...\nEvery prediction in the BIBLE that has thus far came true is impossible on a factual scale of precentages to happen.. In other words.. A phychic cannot make predictions 100% of the time and be correct.. They will be lucky if they get one right and thats probably chance...\nBut yet , if you read the prediction in the BIBLE ( especially the ones that have already happened) what are the odds that ALL of them have came true?? Like a zillion to 1...\n\nDO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ELSE WITH THAT KIND OF ODDS??\n\nI believe because there is indesputabel proof that GOD does exist.. \nJESUS DID WALK THIS EARTH..FACTS CANNOT LIE..\nWITNESSES DO NOT TELL LIES\nBesides , who in there right mind would die for another human being all soley based on 1 fact ...\nThat they believed in JESUS...\nWOULD ANY OF US DO THE SAME???\nThey seen JESUS . they walked with him, ate with him, communed and were taught by JESUS.... They knew him INTIMATELY...\nSOOO...\nWHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DIE FOR A MAN IF HE WASN'T WHO HE SAID HE WAS AND STILL IS..\n\nIt just begs to be answered....\n\nSo why do I believe :\n\n1st because of proof...\n2nd because of my heart\nOne day I just had enough.. Enough of running and searching when all I had to do was stop and look.. Listen and hear,, GOD WAS RIGHT THERE AND I JUST KEPT MISSING HIM...\nafter I was saved , my life changed and I didn't even try to change it . It just did..\nThings in my life are not what they once were..\nMy prayers are answered \nMy family life is better \nMy life has meaning\nIts not a meaningless belief .. Its based on more than Faith alone.. Its based on Faith and Truth...\nI can say without a shadow of a doubt that if you do not believe or you sit on the fence like I did, Life is not as AWESOME as it is with JESUS.... \nI have been to both sides and been as close to hell as I care to get...\nand to me \nJESUS IS THE ONLY WAY....THE DOOR IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU .. JUST KNOCK AND HE WILL BE THERE FOR YOU..\nLISTEN AND YOU WILL HEAR ...\n\n I am not a fanatic to non-believers .. I understand who and where t
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Dear Lovesto,\nI do beleive there is a God. Imagine a painting, how can you know there was a painter? The painting is ample proof there was a painter, all you need is eyes that can see and a brain that works. How about a Building? how do we know there was a Builder? The Building is obviously evidence there was a builder. Look around you, do you see the birds?\ndo you see the blue sky wiht sunshine? The Bible say's all of this is created by God so that we might realize he exist and is real. God revealed himself in another way also. \nDo you know how? Lets look at the Ten commandments......\n\n1. Have you ever lied?\n2. Have you ever stolen?\n3. Have you ever looked at someone and lusted?\n4. Have you ever used God or Jesus as a cuss word?\n\nThe Bible says when we die we will stand before God on Judgement day. When we stand before God we will be judged for every thought word and deed, if God Judges you by the Ten Commandments will you be innocent or guilty? Listen to your conscience, you know you are guilty. The Bible says that there are no humans that have kept the Commandments perfectly. The problem is that if you stand before God on Judgement day Guilty, God will have to punish you In Hell because he is Holy and just. Thats not Gods will, he provided a way to Forgive you, He sent Jesus to die on the cross for all of your sins. He payed the penalty for you. Repent and trust Jesus  as your Lord and savior and you will be Granted eternal Life.
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i was reading some of the put downs, doesnt any one have any faith or even common sense. god talks to each and every one of us. its the voice in your head telling you to do something or not to do something its the guilt you feel when you have done something wrong. who are we to say god did not speak to him. the bible says judge ye not! and it also tells us to have faith.who are we to decide who god can and can not talk to. would you believe him if he said satan talked too him?
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:i\ndefined knowledge , trust , belief without emperical tangable evidence\nHeb 11:1  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.\n\nmore coming .... need time to write\n\nI have always had difficulty just trusting. I like and believe in logic and empirical evidence. Intuition, emotional decisions and insight all meant error to me. \n That was the case until a very close loved one was on her death bed, the doctors told me there was little hope, there remained only a prayer for a peaceful passing. Unable to pray for that I prayed for recovery. Hours later I felt a kind of peace and a feeling she would recover. She is with me now. In that prayer I prayed if he would grant that prayer I would trust all he said or did forever.\n It still did not come easy but with each experience of his faithfulness, and as I read scripture and stories of his faithfulness to the Israelites, my own faith grew stronger\n\nAs for the last part of your question, the object of the faith is the only thing which is important. His faithfulness is what gives faith it’s evidence
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The Quran says:\n               (Say ye: We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma`il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them: and we bow to Allah (in Islam).) (Al-Baqarah 2:136)\n\nSo, yes we Muslims believe in all the previous Prophets & scriptures but we don't follow them.We follow the last & final messenger of God. As I said earlier we believe in that the previous prophets were given scriptures but with time they got corrupted and changed so the last messenger was sent with a new & true message-The Holy Quran. so we follow it & though we believe other scriptures but we don't follow them. We believe that all prophets preached the message of tawheed (oneness of Allah) and all of them invited human beings to worship Allah alone and to live righteous lives. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was not the only prophet of God, but he was the last and final prophet of God. Prophet Muhammad was not the founder of Islam; all prophets submitted to God (Muslims) and followed the way of submission to God (Islam).
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Look with-in and you shall find all that you need .It is said that man alone has with him the full knowledge and love of God . So if one found them selves alone and without any knowledge of the books of evil men who twist Gods love and distorts the truth how would you find him .\nLook only as far as your own soul and you will know your creators love .\nThe written words of man are to serve mans needs and not those of God .\nIt is insidious how the writings of man distort the true meaning of Gods Will for man and have lead him so far astray .\nBut I have been asked by God to tell you that you should only look in your own soul for him and there you will find him .
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This question really raised mt eye brows and got me to thinking.\nI believe in miracles and I believe in the dead coming back to life -- never seen the latter though.\nI believe in prophets and false prophets -- have to ask the Spirit to help discern between the 2.\nI fear though that many are quick to believe the words of a man and not look at the actions he produces outside of the crowd.\nA man will come and do great miracles, some greater than we have ever seen before with our own eyes.  But the Bible warns us that he will be the anti-christ.  That is why the Bible repeats itself constantly to not be decieved.
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:}\nBible says that\nbut it also says:\nJohn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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How can true prophets and false ones be identified?\n\nTrue prophets make known their faith in Jesus, but more is required than claiming to preach in his name\n\n1 John 4:1-3: “Test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world. You gain the knowledge of the inspired expression from God by this: Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh originates with God, but every inspired expression that does not confess Jesus does not originate with God.”\n\nTrue prophets speak in the name of God, but merely claiming to represent him is not enough.\nJesus said: “I do nothing of my own initiative; but just as the Father taught me I speak these things.” (John 8:28) He said: “I have come in the name of my Father.” (John 5:43) Jesus also said: “He that speaks of his own originality is seeking his own glory.”—John 7:18.\n\nIf any individuals or organizations claim to represent God but decline to use God’s personal name, and make it a practice to express their own opinions on matters, are they measuring up to this important qualification of a true prophet?\n\nAbility to perform “great signs,” or “miracles,” is not necessarily proof of a true prophet\n\nMatt. 24:24: “False Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs [“miracles,” TEV] and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones.”\nWhat true prophets foretell comes to pass, but they may not understand just when or how it will be\n\nDan. 12:9: “Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of the end.”\n\nThe pronouncements of a true prophet promote true worship and are in harmony with God’s revealed will\n\nTrue prophets and the false can be recognized by the fruitage manifest in their lives and the lives of those who follow them\n\nMatt. 7:15-20: “Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to you in sheep’s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will recognize them. . . . Every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit . . . Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those men.”\n\nIt was not necessary to wait perhaps for years or generations to determine whether the prophet was true or false by fulfillment of a prediction. If his message contradicted God’s revealed will and standards, he was false. Thus, a prophet who foretold peace for Israel or Judah, at a time when the people were engaging in disobedience to God’s Word and Law, of necessity was false.\n\nThe true prophet never foretold simply to satisfy human curiosity. Every prediction related to God’s will, purpose, standards, or judgment. (1Ki 11:29-39; Isa 7:3-9) Often the future events foretold were the consequence of existing conditions; as the people sowed, so they would reap. The false prophets lulled the people and their leaders with soothing assurances that, despite their unrighteous course, God was still with them to protect and prosper them.
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You are denying some of the central truths of Scripture and according to the Bible you say you believe in there is no hope for you in  your current state of unbelief.\n\n\nJohn 16:28\nI came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
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our mind can not accepted the trianity at all and every one has his own understanding.\n*********************************\nThere is no God but God and Mohammed His last messanger who supported by a miracle Holy Quran.Also JESUS is amessanger of God\n************************\nAre you absolutely sure that you are on the truth ,I urge you then to open your heart , be true to yourself, be totally objective, think deep and check out those articles?!\n\nJust look…. Listen...compare….. and then judge and say your word.\n\nI advice you to spend sometime reading this link on-line I will be glad to hear your WORD:\n\nhttp://www.islam-guide.com/islam-guide.pdf \n******************************