Why did you stop believing in God? [Spirituality & Religion]

@Pikachu the difference is that he has the spirit of the living God in him and you do not, the bible is a spiritual book

@Silverwings

So the bible will only seem divine if you already believe it is?
Sounds a bit dodgy to me...

@Pikachu I am just saying it is spiritualy discerned, it cant be read like an ordinary book

the spirit has to open it up to you, the normal mind does not get it

@Silverwings

If you already have to believe it's true to discern its divine influence then it's a pretty bad tool for bringing people to the faith🤷🏻

If you went back to it, with a true desire to understand it, the Holy Spirit would open it up to you, it is just like when Jesus spoke in parables.

@Pikachu if you had been truly seeking you would have found

@Silverwings

I have gone back to it and i entered it as open-mindedly as i could, conscientiously withholding judgement. I prayed to god to let me see his presence in the book.

It's a bit of a rescue device to say that it requires a "true desire" because then if anyone doesn't believe it's because they didn't have a "true desire".
It's just a circular argument.

@Silverwings

lol there it is.

@Pikachu Something is missing, I do not believe for a moment that if you truely were seeking God that he would not meet you at your point of faith?

@Silverwings

I don't doubt for a moment that you [i]must [/i]believe that because of your faith.
It doesn't change my experience.

I'm sorry i wasn't the atheist who read the bible looking to criticize it.
I read it with an earnest desire to see god in it if he was there and my experience was that it was an utterly mundane, [i]human[/i] text.

@Pikachu I do not understand that at all? Is there a way to tag someone else to this post?

@Silverwings

Understand what?