can you see evidence that the Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the earth?
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No, I don't see evidence that the Spirit is being withdrawn.  God is still working, and will be giving everyone a chance until the time is up. The Scriptures say that everyone will have heard the word, and given a chance before the end is to come.  He is working everywhere and in every place now.  The darkness is here too, but we know who wins because we read the ending of the Book, Jesus prevails!\n   Going to church and being in the Scriptures is really important right now, as being in the world is overwhelming, the tv, magazines, everything is against what the Scriptures teach, so we need to be reminded about the Lord in the middle of the week, and on Sundays too.Hopes this helps alittle bit.....
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it confirms mine.  Being wiccan/pagan I believe that the earth is a living, breathing being that is growing and changing.  Pangea is proof of that.  While the earths growth and changes take longer than the lifespan of humans it does happen.
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"the present heavens(universe) and earth by His(God's) word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men...the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up." (2 Peter 3)\n\nIn light of God's revelation, we should be investing in and looking for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
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I agree and this is one of the most difficult issues that I have been struggling with lately.  Our ancestors of 2000 years ago did not have the science nor the technology to explain everyday events.  "Oh my gosh!  That glowing ball is back!  It must be a god!"  So, they named him Helios.  I'm just so confused as to why the Bible is still the end all, be all authority.  We've obviously made leaps and bounds in our understanding of the earth, our solar system, our galaxy and our universe.  Ugh!  I'm just so confused and find it VERY hard to follow with blind faith.
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Many of the bible prophecies have already come to pass including the return of the Jews to Israel. Everything needed for the mark of the beast is in place and we are seeing increased weather conditions and earthquakes all of which are also in the bible. I truly believe we are in the last days. To read it for yourself, turn to revelations and Daniel. God does not tell us the exact time but gives us many of the end time signs.
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No one knows.......but the bible says his spirit is around already.
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It is a very sad statement about the population of the US that so many want to believe this sort of nonsense, and alien abduction etc. It is even worse when about 1/3 of the population does not know the earth orbits the sun, and a large fraction of US adults cannot locate the US on a globe. \n\nI will not dismiss out of hand all accounts of supernatural phenomenon, but most of it is explained by vagaries of the human mind and its processes, which is basically uncharted territory. If there are ghosts etc, where is the evidence?
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Want an honest answer?  I don't know.  Nobody knows.\n\nThere are numerous examples throughout the Bible of God separating his spirit from people.  King Saul comes to mind.
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Dear Gino...\n   I'm a big, BIG fan of your work on Yahoo Q&A...and I'm a Christian!!! I agree with you on some things and others, I could understand. I hope this answer provides some kind of logical explanation.\n\nThe proof of God's existance is not in the air or in the miracles, it's in the hearts of the people who believe. You're right about one thing, if I prayed in the almighty rock to help me get through my depression, it's most likely to happen because I truly have faith in that rocks capabilities to heal me. We as people have to have that leader to turn to just in case something goes wrong or there is something that we can't handle, someone has to take that burden from us. For politians, there's President Bush; for kids, it's their parents; for those who don't believe, there's someone else who was involved; and for us Christians, there's God or Satan (depending on the problem). \n\nThere is no great amount of evidence in the world that can prove to you that prayer works unless that belief is in your own heart.\n\nI'm not one of those crazed Christians who is trying to get you to convert and believe, in fact I hope you stay the way you are...I would date you and have your babies before we even get married (HA HA). \n\nP.S Society is a load of crap sometimes...if anyones see you worshiping a rock or tree, they would have you committed to a mental institution. You have to go with the crowd to be "normal".
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I certainly hope so. There seem to be a lot of signs these days. God says that the same way you see the green leaves appear on the trees and know spring is near will be true regarding the second coming. We will see the signs and know the time is near. Timothy tells us what God knows is coming...\n"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them."\n2 Timothy 3:1\nSounds kind of familiar, eh? Our world IS this way now but may have to get a lot worse before we see Him coming.\nRemember that no one knows the time except the Father.
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God also tells us to test the spirit, and I say you were not inspired by God to write this, but maybe inspired by satan himself. \n\nI cannot give you any proof since you are blind/deaf/dumb to the ways of God.
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I very much doubt it.\n\nMy own suspicion is that God's mightily PO'd with George.  He hasn't made very good witness by his actions.
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Yes to both. We are just living spirit beings of earth with experiences that God created when Earth was created. And also we will be leaving Earth when the time comes for God to take our spirits away! Read The Bible!!!\nB.I.B.L.E. - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
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Yes.\n\nDeuteronomy 4:19: "Be careful that you don't worship the sun, moon, and stars." \n\nDeuteronomy 17:2-5 in the Old Testament says that those who worshipped the sun, moon, or stars were to be stoned. \n\nLeviticus 20:6 says God will separate himself from those who go after mediums and familiar spirits. \n\nDeuteronomy 18:10-12 says that practicing witchcraft, sorcery, soothsaying, interpreting omens, making spells, and being a medium or spiritist, are all terrible sins to God. \n\nDaniel 2:27-28 talks of how God kept King Nebuchadnezzar's dream and its interpretation secret from the astrologers, magicians or dream interpreters, and soothsayers. However, he revealed it to his prophet Daniel. \n\nActs 16:16-18 talks of a girl who was possessed by an evil spirit that enabled her to be a fortune teller. Paul commanded the evil spirit to come out of her in the name or authority of Jesus, and the spirit left her.\n\nDeuteronomy 18:9-11: "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft..." \n\n2 Chronicles 33:5-7: "He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced sorcery, divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger."
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Speaking in Tongues is evidence you got the Holy Ghost..\n\n\nAct 2:38
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my interpretation is that the existance of humanity will be long enuf to see the montains move. think of it this way, if you were omnipotent and watched thre earth through time you would see the lands shift and mountains melt away with erosion.
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Nothing from the bible has been proven except obvious things (the sun rose that morning lol). There's much better explanations for nature and the workings of the universe than the bible has ever given. EVIDENCE and FACTS point towards things VERY different than those written in the bible. It's vastly outdated and filled with lies and things we should long have forgotten.