Why Do The Skeptics Take The Chance At Being Wrong When They Don't Have To?
Why is it so important to them to take that chance? Has their delusions been so real to them that, even though they have no evidence or facts to support their delusions, to stick with them? They keep demanding my brothers and sisters and I to prove that God is alive and His Word is Truth by pulling this burden of proof nonsense on us. Why can't they see the fact that, since God already has proven Himself to mankind by His Word and His Work, the burden of proof is on them instead of us?
They see the evidence but they will not accept it as evidence. They want to believe that this came about by some freak accident and allow the fairy tale of evolution to take over in their distorted thinking. What are they afraid of? Why do they run when faced with the Truth? Don't they know that God doesn't wish to harm them when they humble themselves and seek His Face?
It's certain that they are afraid of hell fire. They want to believe that hell doesn't exist. In order to accomplish this, they must also believe that God doesn't live, or even heaven doesn't exist. They'll probably read this and laugh and mock and ridicule, but, they'll never prove what they want to believe is true. Hell was not meant for man at all, it was meant for the devil and his angels. Unfortunately, a lot people believe that it was meant for man as well, which isn't true.
God hates this because letting some of His beloved creation enter into hell breaks His heart. People don't realize that when they enter hell, that they'll discover, what God already knows, that it's a place of torment which no man or woman could with stand.
Their heart knowledge seeks after the Truth of God and not the lies of men.
Again, why would skeptics want to take the chance at being wrong when they don't have to?
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It's not a matter of not wanting to believe in the Abrahamic God, it's being [b]unable[/b] to believe. An invisible man who lives in the sky and has magic powers is just not a credible thing for any emotionally mature adult to believe. When I was a little kid I thought God was just a story adults told to kids so they would behave. Like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy. I never thought adults actually believed such a story.
@badminton [quote]It's not a matter of not wanting to believe in the Abrahamic God, it's being unable to believe. An invisible man who lives in the sky and has magic powers is just not a credible thing for any emotionally mature adult to believe[/quote]
As long as you're alive, you'll always have a choice to believe or not to believe. Any emotionally mature adult can tell you that. Like it or not, God has already proven Himself to mankind time and again through His Word and through His Work. This is why it's up to you to prove that He didn't.
@GodSpeed63 I have to disagree. I don't have a choice about believing a thing. If it is not believable then I cannot accept it.
I am not trying to talk you out of your religion. You are free to have the faith of your choice. Just remember, other people are equally free to choose different beliefs. In the United States our constitution forbids theocracy, mandates separation of church and state, and guarantees freedom of religion.
@walabby [quote]One can't FORCE oneself to believe anything. One can pretend to believe things, but that's not actually believing.[/quote]
People have the right to believe what they wish but often neglect the other side of the coin which state that they are responsible to believe in the Truth of God rather than the lies of men. As long as you're alive you have that choice.
@badminton Totally understandable. It doesn't seem very feasible does it? But when you think about it, who would have ever thought that a human being could grow another human being inside their body and bring another being into existence? Haha I mean that's really wild when you think about it. Yet...it is nothing short of a miracle. There are many many things in this world that we cannot see, yet exist. There's no denying that. We see the results don't we? Just like when we see patterns of stars in the sky that make up things like the Big Dipper, etc., that shows God's handiwork and creativity. And the way all of the stars and planets are lined up, shows us that God loves to create and loves beautiful things. The way the son, moon, and planets just hang in space, shows us God loves order and if it weren't for God, as fast as this planet is spinning, we would have surely hurled off into outer space and destroyed. But we don't even get dizzy. Now that's a miracle. We can't see gravity yet we see the effects of it just like we see the handiwork of God in this world in the beautiful mountains and trees. In the intricate detail of snowflakes. That shows God as our great designer and nothing that Evolution could have produced. And adults do believe it. Just because He is invisible to us right now, does not mean he does not exist nor that he is not alive. How can we deny his existence when we see the proof of it, like gravity and air and the equator? Look in the mirror. Even you are a miracle. The farthest fetched thing to believe, is that one could come into existence from nothing. I think we're smarter than that! Hard to believe that all the beauty that we are surrounded with, just "happened" by accident; forces colliding together and making this beautiful intricate world. Now that's what's unbelievable. In fact, it's and insult to our intelligence.
The Greek word for “truth” is aletheia, which refers to “divine revelation” and is related to a word that literally means “what can't be hidden.
Scripture tells us that God gave us His Word for the specific reason that it is pure and trustworthy, it will never lead us astray, and that He gave it to us ,so that we wouldn't have to guess about all these things. Stray from God's Word and guidance and that's when we get into real trouble.
I wouldn't have loved and followed him for the past 51 years now, if I thought Him and His Word were not trustworthy, but I have definitely found they are. When I asked Jesus to save my soul, I had no idea whatsoever, that He would send His Holy Spirit to live in me and guide me through life. And since I had no idea that such a great and profound transformation would take place, you can see that I was not expecting it. It came as a complete surprise, that upon asking Jesus to come into my heart and my life to be my Savior, and to forgive me of my sins, that He instantly placed His cleansing Holy Spirit within me.....just as He promised to do in His Word. His Holy Spirit cleanses us of our past sins and eradicates them from our life, freeing us, bringing with it, peace, love, joy, and BECAUSE His Holy Spirit is all those things, when His Spirit touched mine, it started a transformation of my entire life, and gave me a brand new life in Christ, and I wouldn't trade that for anything in this world! So there's no guessing on my part, whatsoever, that Jesus is real and saves souls, and that was the purpose for His coming, to save our souls from the condemnation that sin placed on us and get us ready for the afterlife. When Jesus saves, He takes all our past sins and erases them from our life, so that we can start a brand new life in Him, just as if we had never sinned! The Holy Spirit's job, is to transform our lives and our spirit, to get us ready for heaven. And when he does that, God remembers our sins no more and we are now brought back into fellowship and right standing with God the Father. We are promised eternal life in heaven, just as God's Word says. And God never breaks a promise.
