What Percent Out Of A 100 Are You Convinced That The God Of The Bible

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='GeorgiiMichael' timestamp='1325978575' post='2364645']
You all must move mountains with your 100% faith.



I have not been able to speak and move mountains. Or uproot a tree. And while I will choose to live and believe in Jesus Christ and in the teachings of the Catholic Church, I know my faith is less than the size of a mustard seed because try as I might, I cannot move mountains.

I pray to one day have the faith of that size, let alone faith with 100 percent of my being.
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I believe it was a metaphor for surrmounting lifes problems, not a literal mountain. Only God can defy physics.

[GeorgiiMichael]

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' timestamp='1326523973' post='2368793']
I believe it was a metaphor for surrmounting lifes problems, not a literal mountain. Only God can defy physics.
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If we can believe that when Jesus said, "This is my body, this is my blood" why is it so hard to believe that if we had the faith of a mustard seed, we could move mountains? Are we so arrogant as to believe that our faith [i]must[/i] be so much bigger than a mustard seed?

Edited January 14, 2012 by GeorgiiMichael

[Basilisa Marie]

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' timestamp='1326523973' post='2368793']
I believe it was a metaphor for surrmounting lifes problems, not a literal mountain. Only God can defy physics.
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True, but it was also through faith that God used humans to defy biology.

As for a percentage...nah. Faith doesn't work in percentages. You can't measure belief or human experience of God empirically.

[Basilisa Marie]

[quote name='GeorgiiMichael' timestamp='1326524285' post='2368795']
If we can believe that when Jesus said, "This is my body, this is my blood" why is it so hard to believe that if we had the faith of a mustard seed, we could move mountains? Are we so arrogant as to believe that our faith [i]must[/i] be so much bigger than a mustard seed?
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The mustard seed parable always reminds me of a story about Aquinas. How this man, who was one of the few most brilliant minds and theologians of all recorded history, experienced such a powerful vision of God that he exclaimed "All that I have written is straw" and stopped writing. How much faith does it really take to move mountains? How much knowledge must one must have before one truly knows God? If our faith fills our realm of experience, can't that be 100%? But if someone has a larger realm of experience for faith, wouldn't they need more faith to get to that 100%? But who then, out of these two, has more faith? In whose perspective is the mustard seed of faith so very tiny - ours, or Christ's?

[Dennis Tate]

99.99999999999^n%

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Dogmatic Atheists Lack Mathematical Aptitude.

[Guest]

[quote name='Dennis Tate' timestamp='1327588281' post='2375685']
99.99999999999^n%

[url="http://www.carbonbias.blogspot.com/"]http://www.carbonbias.blogspot.com/[/url]
Dogmatic Atheists Lack Mathematical Aptitude.
[/quote] That was amesome. Don't understand all of it but still amesome.

Edited January 28, 2012 by Guest

[Guest]

The near death experience was razzle dazzle too. I think these are proof of God. Not everyone can be making these stories up.

Edited January 28, 2012 by Guest

[Guest]

[quote name='Delivery Boy' timestamp='1327741104' post='2376506']
That was amesome. Don't understand all of it but still amesome.
[/quote] " amesome "

Ok whatever lol amesome amesome amesome

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='Delivery Boy' timestamp='1327768496' post='2376549']
" amesome "

Ok whatever lol amesome amesome amesome
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Try writing what crowed after Peter had denied Jesus three times!
Before the pickle crows....

OKay before the jar of pickles crows you will deny Christ three times.

Edited January 28, 2012 by Mark of the Cross

[Seven77]

Well, i would first say that faith is a gift and its a decision.

I believe 100% that the God of the OT is God because he has revealed himself in space and time. We can only know God because of the Incarnation in history: he was seen and touched! The Word, the very Thought of God! The OT [b]indicated[/b] that he would come to us and he did! It's always dark before the dawn: this is how it works after the Fall, but Jesus is Light! Keep desiring the grace of understanding and he will give it to you. Seek his face when you open the Bible (it's only called the word of God because the Word of God who gives meaning to everything is contained spiritually within.)

That said, I have difficulties, struggles, and some of the ways of God completely elude me. Sometimes I feel lost, scared out of my mind, and I wonder and I don't [b]feel[/b] convinced. In those times, I choose to believe anyway; I make a decision to believe. That's only possible, though still difficult, because I am convinced in the first place. And I can only make a decision because he offers me his help to do so... take his hand and don't let go.

Difficulties don't equal doubt or a lack of conviction. You really should read the book, [url="http://www.amazon.com/Believe-Love-Personal-Retreat-Teaching/dp/1928832288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327789552&sr=1-1"]I Believe in Love[/url]. It helped me a lot.

St. Thomas Aquinas, today on your feast day please pray for us that we are all given an outpouring of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially of understanding. Help us to understand that we might come to me to know him better and love him more and more. Amen!

[mysisterisalittlesister]

rooster

never mind