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Originally Posted by Liveformx64  The above paragraph is based on the agreement that we are slaves to our environment. I don't believe this to be true. You are projecting your beliefs onto a majority of people who do not agree with you, and then filtering them through that criterion.
This is perhaps why you can't understand another point of view other than your own? |
My environment has been influenced by belief in Christ his teachings and example. Can compare the social environment in Iran with that of the U.S.A or Canada? Are the social environments in Africa the same as where you come from? Hardly so; the new age way of thinking is still unheard of in East Africa and it would mean death in country like Iran. Now do you expect an Iranian to have the same intuition like someone in the free world? Most definitely no. His/her thoughts which form the basis of his/her intuition are manipulated by different circumstances, unique to a person living in the free world. If you want to notice how intuition changes just bring an Iranian to sample the fruits of the free world, he/she will fight it for some time but eventually give in and begin thinking and acting freely.
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Originally Posted by Liveformx64 Yes, I love myself unconditionally. I have unseated your entire belief system in one sentence.  |
You are very lucky then;i hate it when am sick!
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Originally Posted by Liveformx64 You claim to be a proponent of the Bible? Again I ask, what bible do you believe, and do you believe it word for word? |
I’m a believer of the Word of God and again I read through all the translations in my possession to come up with what am convinced to be the truth; am not wrapped up in a single translation.
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Originally Posted by Liveformx64 If you don't believe it word for word, do you use your intuition and "gut" to decipher the meaning? If god allows you to use your intuition do decide your beliefs, how then is it wrong for someone on the other side of the world to use their intuition from a frame of reference as someone who has never seen a bible let alone read it? |
My intuition is greatly influenced by what I know and believe to be the truth according to my perspective of the word of God. It is not wrong someone to use his/her intuition in whichever circumstance one has found him/herself in. The point am trying to make is that all intuitions are influenced by our social environments and manipulated by our thoughts.