# My Amazing Encounters with Jesus Christ **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 2, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774 "2016-03-02T22:47:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/681 "2016-03-13T22:54:49Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > This is a Warning: Do not insult other posters in Great Debates, not even with off-topic political jabs. > > [/Moderating] Got it. Although I do wish that there was a rule against members insulting my family in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/682 "2016-03-13T22:54:52Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And he was powerless to stop it? Alternate question: If bad people are sent to hell by God doesn’t that mean Satan is doing God’s work? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/683 "2016-03-13T22:56:40Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > I was a lost sheep and my great Shepherd came and found me. According to you, he finds you quite often. Have you ever thought to tell him, “No need to check up on me personally any more, I’m convinced. Why don’t you go drop in on any/all those other millions that are desperately looking for any sign that they are not alone in the world?” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/684 "2016-03-13T22:58:25Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Got it. > > Although I do wish that there was a rule against members insulting my family in heaven. _This_ is a new one! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/685 "2016-03-13T23:05:30Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > That was only one testimony. There are a number of people witnessing to have seen the orb with their naked eyes. This dismisses your claim of them being photographic anomalies. > > Again, I am discussing spiritual orbs here and not merely something ball shaped. Welp, you have yet to cite a credible source, much less bothered to read through the evidence you thought could be proof. Claims of seeing orbs do not trump photographs of these orbs. We can’t locate these people and ask them more questions about their experience. Visual proof is much more compelling and verifiable. You probably prefer rumors and glurge over visual proof because they’re harder to disprove. There’s a difference between something being true because it can be verified and something being true because you want it to be. You see a blob of light and instantly come to the conclusion it’s a spirit orb. That’s not proof. That’s a fantasy. How about if I claim that the chair I’m sitting in is made of Pepperjack Cheese? How do you know it’s true? Because I say so? Oh wait, if I say something about Jesus, that makes it true. The chair I’m sitting is made of Pepperjack Cheese and Jesus’s face is on the cushion. You don’t believe me? How about all those numerous witnesses who’ve seen Jesus’s face in moldy walls and grilled cheese sandwiches? Guess they dismiss proof that I’m not sitting on Jesus’s face, right? ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/686 "2016-03-13T23:05:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Bible says he didn’t. It says that God hardened his heart so that he wouldn’t. Are you saying that he could have overcome that? Moses and Arron would not have approached the Pharoah before each plague if he had no choice. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/687 "2016-03-13T23:11:45Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Moses and Arron would not have approached the Pharoah before each plague if he had no choice. And each time, GOD hardened the Pharoah;s heart so that he would not listen. You don’t see the pattern there? Exodus 8:15, 8:19, etc and so on. GOD wanted to punish the Pharoah, so he made it so he would not listen - to prove that the pharoah would not listen - even the one time the pharoah started to listen, God ‘rehardened’ his heart so that he wouldn;t. your god is a spiteful little thing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/688 "2016-03-13T23:13:40Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Moses and Arron would not have approached the Pharoah before each plague if he had no choice. Are you saying the Bible lied? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/689 "2016-03-13T23:44:33Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > ". . . that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. . . . " So, someone born mute, who cannot confess anything with his mouth, is out of luck? Hell beckons? How about if he uses sign language, or writes it down? (Okay, seriously. Why is it the Bible is absolute truth and the immutable Word of God one moment…and just a silly metaphor the next? Who makes these decisions?) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/690 "2016-03-13T23:53:52Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Do to my experiences, I can explain some things in a little more detail than most Church Theologians. So you’re dismissing the RCC priests and setting yourself up as more knowledgeable than they? Yeah, that’s in accordance with RCC doctrine, tradition, and practice, Martin. > [@](#): > > For instance, you are not going to find much better teachings on the Holy Spirit than I will give you here. It’s rather obvious from your posts in this thread alone that you really don’t know a blame thing about the Holy Spirit as described in the RCC scriptures. Funny thing, though, is that those telling you that happen to run the gamut from Catholic, to former Catholic, to Mormon, and even atheist. > [@](#): > > The Church is not like any other Church in that it’s employees and members will all interpret some scripture differently. Ah, but there is an approved theology, of course. Your postings here obviously do not jibe with that. > [@](#): > > It does not take from the basic tenets of the Church. Except where you’ve set yourself up as more knowledgeable (which you’re obviously not) about RCC theology, etc., than the RCC hierarchy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/691 "2016-03-14T00:02:35Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > God created us with free will. It is a better person who can choose to do or not to do things of their own free will. Would you rather has been created like an obedient robot? A more important point is that God created the consequences of exercising that free will. As I’ve pointed out, God could have given people free will while they’re alive and allowed everyone into heaven when they died. But God chose differently. He gave people free will and then decreed that if people used their free will in certain ways, God would punish them with eternal damnation. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/692 "2016-03-14T00:03:16Z")
Once, my wife and I had both seen my doppelganger(spirit-double). It was revealed to me by a knowing spirit that my body had been cloned by aliens. The Legend of the Doppelganger says that it means imminent death for anyone seeing their own doppelganger. I believe that aliens do this to hide their evil. I also believe that they are fallen angels. One night, I believe that God had protected me from them by increasing my body temperature to a high fever. Causing me to thrash around and thus scaring them away. The fan was blowing up my nose at the time and I could smell their scent. They smelt as if they had come from the water. My wife had said that something was pulling on her leg and that she smelled sulfur. I believe that the sulfur smell is the gas they use to knock people out. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/693 "2016-03-14T00:09:48Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Once, my wife and I had both seen my doppelganger(spirit-double). It was revealed to me by a knowing spirit that my body had been cloned by aliens. {…} So, we’re just gonna get a slow motion “Gish Gallop”? I are the sadderest. ☹ (But not at all surprised!) CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/694 "2016-03-14T00:10:35Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > Once, my wife and I had both seen my doppelganger(spirit-double). It was revealed to me by a knowing spirit that my body had been cloned by aliens. The Legend of the Doppelganger says that it means imminent death for anyone seeing their own doppelganger. I believe that aliens do this to hide their evil. I also believe that they are fallen angels. One night, I believe that God had protected me from them by increasing my body temperature to a high fever. Causing me to thrash around and thus scaring them away. The fan was blowing up my nose at the time and I could smell their scent. They smelt as if they had come from the water. My wife had said that something was pulling on her leg and that she smelled sulfur. I believe that the sulfur smell is the gas they use to knock people out. How about responding to what people are saying to you and asking of you, instead of ignoring it and throwing up even more religious glurge for us to add to the pile? In what possible way is this story a response to the last few posts? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/695 "2016-03-14T00:11:14Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > I believe that the sulfur smell is the gas they use to knock people out. You may be right about this. It’s certainly true if I’ve had curried-egg sandwiches for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/696 "2016-03-14T00:14:20Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > My wife had said that something was pulling on her leg and that she smelled sulfur. I believe that the sulfur smell is the gas they use to knock people out. That’s just the smell of brimstone. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/697 "2016-03-14T00:27:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So you’re dismissing the RCC priests and setting yourself up as more knowledgeable than they? Yeah, that’s in accordance with RCC doctrine, tradition, and practice, Martin. > > It’s rather obvious from your posts in this thread alone that you really don’t know a blame thing about the Holy Spirit as described in the RCC scriptures. Funny thing, though, is that those telling you that happen to run the gamut from Catholic, to former Catholic, to Mormon, and even atheist. > > Ah, but there is an approved theology, of course. Your postings here obviously do not jibe with that. > > Except where you’ve set yourself up as more knowledgeable (which you’re obviously not) about RCC theology, etc., than the RCC hierarchy. I do not claim to possess more knowledge than the Catholic Church. I said that on account of my experiences, there are a few things that I can teach in more detail than many within the Church is all. You say that I have diverged from Catholic Theology, but you have failed to show one point where this is true. For that matter, you have failed to even show one point where this might be true. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/698 "2016-03-14T00:30:17Z")
> [@ScottRP](#): > > I also believe that they are fallen angels. One night, I believe that God had protected me from them by increasing my body temperature to a high fever. Causing me to thrash around and thus scaring them away. …did your hands feel just like two balloons? > [@ScottRP](#): > > I was a lost sheep and my great Shepherd came and found me. So The Great Shepard is… mutton-mongering riffraff…? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/699 "2016-03-14T00:36:30Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > …did your hands feel just like two balloons? > > So The Great Shepard is… mutton-mongering riffraff…? It’s what we’ve always suspected. **Hal** is GOD. ---
**Author:** ![ScottRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ScottRP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottRP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774/700 "2016-03-14T00:44:09Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > …did your hands feel just like two balloons? > > So The Great Shepard is… mutton-mongering riffraff…? The parable of the lost sheep. It is in the bible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazing-encounters-with-jesus-christ/747774.md?page=36)