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Zadocfish2 wrote:So, once again I'm stuck. What do you guys think of such weirdly specific coincidences in a believer's life? Don't you think it's strange at all?
Zadocfish2 wrote:The words themselves, I had some issues with (clearly Leviticus isn't meant to extend to modern Christians, and the epistle writers didn't consider their own work "scripture," seeing as they were just letters at the time, and a few other things). But, it just so happened that I got a response that was a word-for-word, properly-phrased answer to the question I had asked in prayer, on that exact day, at that exact time (after the daily verse switch at 9 pm).
crank wrote:I was reading a book, this was back about 12 years ago, and it had the word 'sheleighly' in it. I didn't recognize it and had to look it up. It's a club basically, like this:
Later, while reading the next book, not related in any way to the previous one, I came across the damn word again! And then the next book had the word in it. No theme or anything tied the books together, just that I happened to be reading them. 3books in a row, near random choice, and to have the same fairly rare word, the first time I remember ever seeing it? Doe god like sheleighlies by any chance?
Animavore wrote:If I ever need a cane I'll be using a shillelagh. They're the business.
If it was God answering your question, don't you think he'd give you an answer that was true? Yet you reject the content (oh, noes, Leviticus doesn't apply, and the NT doesn't count either), and cite the timing instead.
Zadocfish2 wrote:How, exactly, does one explain that sort of thing as coincidence? The odds are just too astronomical.
Those sites only put 'verses of the day' out that they consider will address people's spiritual needs. I don't know how big the bank of such verses is on the site you used. They probably only need 365, so they can cycle through a year.
Manticore wrote:crank wrote:I was reading a book, this was back about 12 years ago, and it had the word 'sheleighly' in it. I didn't recognize it and had to look it up. It's a club basically, like this:
Later, while reading the next book, not related in any way to the previous one, I came across the damn word again! And then the next book had the word in it. No theme or anything tied the books together, just that I happened to be reading them. 3books in a row, near random choice, and to have the same fairly rare word, the first time I remember ever seeing it? Doe god like sheleighlies by any chance?
Never seen that spelling before - most people seem to spell it "Shillelagh". (Apparently after the town where it originated.)
Zadocfish2 wrote:Hi! I've been gone a while, because I re-converted to Christianity.
Let me explain how it happened: Going back and forth, I finally ended up praying, "It's so contradictory; what parts of the Bible should I believe, Lord?" On a weird hunch, I looked up a Verse of the Day site. It said, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." 3 Timothy 16-17
The words themselves, I had some issues with (clearly Leviticus isn't meant to extend to modern Christians, and the epistle writers didn't consider their own work "scripture," seeing as they were just letters at the time, and a few other things). But, it just so happened that I got a response that was a word-for-word, properly-phrased answer to the question I had asked in prayer, on that exact day, at that exact time (after the daily verse switch at 9 pm).
How, exactly, does one explain that sort of thing as coincidence? The odds are just too astronomical. Not the last time that happened, either, there are times when I would get passages from the same book from 2 different random verse generators and a verse of the day all in the same night, or I would be leafing through Bible passages and read one at random, and find the verse of the day was from one chapter previous, etc...
Honestly, I still struggle, because the basic problems that made me leave the faith last time haven't quite gone away... But each time something like that happens, the odds are so absurdly impossible that I can't help but think of it as a message. On the other hand, I also note that the same thing probably happens to Muslims and any other religion with an established scripture, and that this kind of thing is what bolsters their faith, too (maybe? If this only happens to Christians, you have to admit that's pretty strange).
So, once again I'm stuck. What do you guys think of such weirdly specific coincidences in a believer's life? Don't you think it's strange at all?
"It's so contradictory; what parts of the Bible should I believe, Lord?"
Animavore wrote:By the way, I just got this Bible quote of the day picking the first one which came up on Google.
"Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does good is from God. Anyone who does evil has not seen God."
3 John 1:11
http://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-verse-of-the-day/
That could also be interpreted as 'answering' your question.
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