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Originally Posted by host
What kind of rewards are you talking about ? Are the rewards that you and your friends attribute to faith in God, similar ? A belated "happy birthday" to you,
BTY.
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Thanks Host,
Rewards in the form of people around me who do amazing things, lead amazing lifes, have amazing fortune. Here is an example our church is 25k in credit card debt. In addition we got a probably eviction notice in one of our buildings so now we need to find a new place with no money and no way to take loans. So our pastor decided to have amazing faith. He wrote down on paper "God I need 50k for the church today" He sent his kids outside to wait for the mail because he new he would get it. Well that day 2 letters came a check for 25 and a check for 26. Nothing else came that day. So our pastor said to God. It's ok God I know you work on your own time so I'll let you be a day late, I expect the money tomorrow" So the next day rolls around and some guy that he doesn't know calls him up and says let's go have lunch. Our pastor says sure. Over lunch the guys says I heard about the church being evicted and I own a construction company. I have a bunch of extra lumber and i'm willing to give it to you along with some labor to help handle it. So they figured out the amount it was worth and it was around 20k in lumber and 5k in labor. Our pastor was amazed God had supplied half of what he asked for! A few minutes later the guy says "I understand the church is in credit card debt" our pastor says "yes" He says "do you know how much?" My pastor "says i'll go find out". He gets an exact number and tells it to the guy. The guy says ok and writes him a check for the full amount.
Now most of you will probably think big deal this is just a coincedence. But when this kind of stuff happens all the time you stop believing in shear coincedence. Or maybe you think it is a lie (which it isn't, our church now has the money and lumber).
I have seen amazing things from christian people, and while so many of you frown on christians you should really get to know some of them.
Someone made the comment that most scientists have read the bible but most christians have not studied science. My question is how many scientists have studied the bible and church? Simply reading the bible means nothing. Christianity is so much more than the words in the bible.