Meta-narrative

@kellyjay said
The reality of it is all I care about, between the two of us only one of us seems to have experienced Him. The other has only ever had thoughts about Him.

I think the way I firmly believed I had "experienced Him" is, psychologically speaking, the same as how you believe you are "experiencing Him".

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He denies God is real; difficult to meet someone you don't acknowledge
as part of reality, let alone the one responsible for reality.

@fmf said
I think the way I firmly believed I had "experienced Him" is, psychologically speaking, the same as how you believe you are "experiencing Him".

Psychologically speaking, people can think they are ducks and all other nonsense;
the reality is, did you know Him? You don't acknowledge He is part of reality; you
even question all reality where He is possible, and you want to say you met him in
a manner of speaking?

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Fall away from what, believing there is a God, so what, there are a lot of people
who believe in God that does not mean God is a reality in their lives, only they
have positive thoughts about Him or some other ways of beholding Him.

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Being a Christian isn't by a popularity poll; it is not a bunch of checkboxes that say
I do this or that; it is Christ in us. If that isn't real, who cares what others think?

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If he claimed he was once an eagle, would you believe him, or because you
know what an eagle is, know that isn't possible? Without Christ in your life,
you will hear the words on judgment day, "depart from me; I never knew you."
from Jesus! That might be some of the words you ignore from scripture, but
they are there for a reason.

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You claim to be a Christian; what do you think? I just told you what has to be
real for it to be true, and there isn't anything you can do to check it out one
way or another, aside from looking at someone's life, are they living in sin, are they
always involved in strife, always mad, always unforgiving, accusatory, all of
the works of the flesh and not the Spirit?

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I'm taking him at his word; if he said he fell away without denying God, that would
be a different conversation.