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Never said it wasn't true, and shaken faith has many forms. I merely proposed that that might not be the best way to start off, with different people, situations and questions we sometimes have to be mindful of how they perceive what we are saying to them and how we are saying it. I would be interested to know exactly what kinds of questions people do ask when their faith is shaken and what your concerns are about in context to 'what's really behind my question'.

The second part I can agree with saying to someone who has shaken faith and is on the line between following Jesus and not however, The first part I would have to argue is rather counter-productive in the sense that, if I was on the fence and that was your opening line, rather than an informative debate and the chance of maybe getting some good scripture and reassurance that what I am thinking is just out of whack, I'm actually going to be receiving a bit of a bible bash and a 'this is how it is you're just wrong' sort of retort. However, you are right in that first part but I would say that would be a little strong to start off with for a shaken faith convert so to speak.

If God created everything in 6 days, God is also infinite in his wisdom and power, there are more than a few passages that support that in the bible, why did he need to rest on the 7th day? Now if God needs rest, can one assume He isn't exactly infinite if He needs to replenish His energy or equivalent? Also, as He created Man after this, is it not logical to think that Man was created TO replenish His energy or equivalent? That we are actually being matured for a spiritual battery and God created Hell to collect the negative and Heaven to collect the positive and that what He tells us to do and why the world is the way it is, is merely a manipulation by God to coerce us into becoming either one of the two? I was asked this by somebody, I found it interesting that they came up with such a theory on creation and had to be very careful in the way I answered as it's a very thought out theory, to type the whole dialogue would take a while but this was the gist of it. I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this and how they would have approached this question, bearing in mind that how you answer these types of challenges can be the difference in pushing someone away or pulling someone towards you.

Is it right to think that less and less Christians are now getting genuine gifts from God? I see fakers in the Christian community often and people who proclaim to have the gift of prophecy or the gift of insight into dreams. I have often tested people who say these things and they get so worked up about it, claiming I'M the sinner for questioning God when really I'm just merely trying to ascertain whether or not they are for real or attention seekers trying to scam good people. For example, a person came to my church to speak, he had spoken at a few other churches and claimed to be able to interpret dreams. I decided to test him by telling him a false dream. If he was truly an interpreter of dreams, he would know it to be fake as God wouldn't give him insight on something false, He would somehow let him know that I was deceiving him. His interpretation was over the top and very disturbing and he got really angry when I told him that the dream wasn't real. Another time, someone claiming to be speaking in tongues was shouting out some sort of gibberish, and I use this word because in the bible it clearly states that if one speaks in tongues they don't know what they say but there will be one in the congregation who does. So I stood up and asked if anyone could interpret. No one could, this person got angry again and screamed at me not to question God. I wasn't questioning God, just their validity. I don't think God would have someone speak in tongues only to have nobody understand what was said.

Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on why they think that Samson could life massive gates to the top of a hill with ease but couldn't survive a bit of stone falling on him?