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Here is a short part from a book I'm reading on the Holy Spirit, man is it good.

"There are various reasons for having confidence in the Bible as God's Word, but it is at this point that the work of the Holy Spirit is most plainly manifested. The truth of the matter is that the same Holy Spirit who was the author of the Scriptures through the use of human personalities also works in each of us to convince us the Bible is the Word of God to be trusted in all its parts.
In his book, 'Institutes of the Christian Religion', John Calvin has a word about the testimony of the Holy Spirit that I like:
'The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken through the mouths of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what had been divinely commanded....Until he illumines their minds, they ever waver among many doubts!....Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated; hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning. And the certainty it deserves with us, it attains by the testimony of the Spirit. For even if it wins reverence for itself by its own majesty, it seriously affects us only when it is sealed upon our hearts through the Spirit..... Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by anyone else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men. We seek no proofs, no marks of genuineness upon which our judgment may lean; but we subject our judgment and wit to it as to a thing far beyond any guesswork! This we do, not as persons accustomed to seize upon some unknown thing, which, under closer scrutiny displeases them, but fully conscious that we hold the unassailable truth!'"

I do believe that the Word of God (the Bible) is the only infallible truth, and that only the Holy Spirit working in us can convince us that it really is infallible. I don't believe this because of what other people have told me, but because as I read his word, I receive immense revelation about my life, and the way I live, and about God's influence in the way we all live. As I read, I learn more about God's character and his will for all of us, and his will is always what's best for us, and I can testify to that.

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when someone cooks something in the microwave and they take it out early, but the time still flashes and it says "touch start", and they don't reset it
hitting a pebble/rock on a skateboard and as a result, eating concrete, and scraping the case of my i-pod mini
a bad day at the skatepark
when a bearing from your skateboard blows out and you biff.
metal slivers
when my pillow gets super warm
Swellbows
when the driver of the car infront of you stops at the beginning of an acceleration lane, really, think about it.
when gum gets old, non-chewable, flavourless, and pasty
materialism
when you see that other people's nexopia pages have a longer friend's list than their actual page, and then you remember... that yours is way shorter .........................hahaha