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Esthersvirtue, I answered your question very simply. It's true that I've never questioned God's existance. Like I said, He's proven Himself over and over to me even when I had moved away from Him.

I'm sorry that the strength of my faith is off putting to you. If you want to question my strength, go ahead. I'm up for answering any of your questions. Just don't prejudge me before you know the whole story, ok?

dogma: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

I have proof.

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SeptemberMorn,
I am not offended by your faith or the strength of your belief. Where we all find strength to live good lives and treat others well is wonderful no matter the source. I have surveyed my few posts to see if I could figure out if there was anything in them that conveyed that. I did not, and I altered the last to remove the sentence that you thought was directed towards that although as I assured you before it was not. I was referring to incidents in the past in which I shared my faith and/or search. Like you and others, my goal is to lead a life without wars - both big and small -- because I believe they all leave tragedies of hurts behind. So I assure you, as I had hoped had come across in the last post, there is no judgement sent to you.

I do want to say that I am sorry if you feel hurt or judged. No one is against you here. We are for you! My goal of this thread is a peaceful discussion. I'd like to feel goodness and peace from things I read here too.

Last time in my post, I said that I would not comment negatively on one individual post as I believe it unfairly singles people out. Given you post again, I am taking that there is still some hurt or anger. That is okay. Yet, I still would like to keep the peace and positivity of this thread, so I will reach out to you individually by pm to see if there is anything that I can do that would make you feel that same peace.

I would also invite other members of this thread and forum to show SeptemberMorn that she is appreciated and her faith is respected. We all can be a source of healing for someone else. In fact, I'm not sure if we can truely know God anyway without befriending another.

Thank you SeptMorn and all others in the forum

EV