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Confusion of Wills

It sounds terribly spiritual to say "God led me", but I am always suspicious of a person who implies that he has a "personal" pipeline to God. When no one else senses that what the person suggests is the will of God, then we had better be careful. God has been blamed for the most outlandish things by people who have confused their own inverted pride with God's will.

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