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Christian author Rachel Held Evens on when scripture and conscience conflict

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Mogget, May 23, 2012.

  1. Mogget

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    Rachel Held Evans | "All right, then, I'll go to hell
     
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    I like this a lot, its a nice way of wording that problem.

    The part that always gets me (I dont know if she addresses this later didnt read the whole thing :icon_redf ) is that usually the reason people believe in the Bible in the first place isn't just "that it says to in the Bible," like so many atheists like to spoof. It's because they feel connected or called to the faith. It seems to me like that sort of intuition is pretty similar to the intuitions people have about their morals - their conscience. For someone who thinks this sort of feeling is a communication from God in some real sense, it seems odd to reject outright another feeling coming from the same faculty.
     
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    Yeah to ask the question What IF i am not just sinning, what if i am different thinking because i really have something physically different that makes me think this way...that caused me to find the words Gender Identity Disorder, and then made a new mental confusion, how did my church interpret the Bible, could they be wrong, and if so can i be ok with how ive always been?