Are Christians willing to acknowledge that God might not exist? That you might be wrong? If so, why do you insist on telling other people that they are following the wrong god if yours is just as much of an uncertainty as theirs is?
Are Christians willing to acknowledge that God might not exist? That you might be wrong? If so, why do you insist on telling other people that they are following the wrong god if yours is just as much of an uncertainty as theirs is?
Are Christians willing to acknowledge that God might not exist? That you might be wrong? If so, why do you insist on telling other people that they are following the wrong god if yours is just as much of an uncertainty as theirs is?
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, I will follow you wherever you go. 58 And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. 59 To another he said, Follow me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father. 60 And Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God. 61 Yet another said, I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home. 62 Jesus said to him, No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.
Oh how You've proven
That there in no one
Like You
Ever faithful
To such faithless men
Like us
Awake my soul
Oh how you've shown me
That this isn't a blind faith
In a distant God
You went before me and You
Bore my sin
Who am I to doubt You?
Let me hear Your voice
My ears have heard You
Let me see Your face
My eyes have seen You
For I believe
For I, I believe
Great is They faithfulness
O' God my Father and King
There is no shadowy presence
To Your promise I cling
Thou changest not Thy compassions
As Thou hast been
Thou forever and ever will be
When men cast their doubt upon Your name
You are unchanging
Still the immutable God
When nations rage against Your throne
You are unchanging
Still the immutable God
There is a critical difference between the two a true believer and a non believer
If you were to pick up an apple, touch, smell and taste it, you would know it exists based on the evidence you experienced.
If someone else tried to tell you it had never been real you would not be convinced away from your knowledge.
many christians have seen things happen in answer to prayers.
my sister cured of a fatal blood disease
my grandmothers lungs were so consumed by cancers from smoking 65+ years she was given 2 weeks to live, after prayer only 24 hours later she was sent home the xray showed her lungs entirely healed, not a single scar or any cancer remained.
in my own like a very severe knee injury which would have required major surgery was healed after prayer so fast no surgery was needed, within 48 hours of the injury i was walking normal again, dr's said i would have been off my leg for months even with the best operation they could have done.
this just a few of dozens of examples i have witnessed personally in the lives of people in my every day life.
Once you know the truth it cannot be taken away.
Are Christians willing to acknowledge that God might not exist?
This is the problem I have with my belief (or lack thereof). I am yet to see any kind of evidence and it really upsets me. I feel like I have been praying for God to come into my life for many years, but I am yet to feel his presence... so how can I ever know that he is real?
That does happen but naturally we will wonder therefore the basis on which they believed.Are Christians willing to acknowledge that God might not exist?
If a person is intellectually honest, they will always acknowledge that possibility (I think), however unlikely it might seem. The world does produce results of extremely slim chance at times. However, given the experiences a Christian may have, to believe doubt really would require some doubting of one's sanity. When that is required in order to believe doubt then we are deluding ourselves in order to believe a particular idea. It also does happen. When that happens, we should always ask what enticed them to believe that doubt.That you might be wrong?
The facts do speak for themselves. If someone loves the truth then they will recognize that what Jesus says is true. Sometimes we prefer to not know the truth, or seek to conceal the truth because we find it uncomfortable.If so, why do you insist on telling other people that they are following the wrong god if yours is just as much of an uncertainty as theirs is?
Do Christians acknowledge that God might not exist?
Are Christians willing to acknowledge that God might not exist? That you might be wrong? If so, why do you insist on telling other people that they are following the wrong god if yours is just as much of an uncertainty as theirs is?
My belief in God is not just a theological perspective to which I adhere. "God exists" is not just a proposition to defend but the beginning point of fellowship with Him. I know God exists first and foremost because the Bible tells me He does, but also because I experience Him as He says in His Word that I can. So, I cannot concede that God might not exist and that I am wrong about Him any more than I could make such a concession about my wife or my parents. Consequently, I feel no compunction about telling others - even those who believe in another god - that the God I know personally is the One True God.
Selah.
I just can't bring myself to believe in atheism. When I look at all of the great philosophical arguments for the existence of God, the various Christian evidences including the evidence supporting the Resurrection, the witness of the holy spirit, and even the irrationality of atheism itself, it just seems to go against logic to suggest that atheism could be true.
It can't be. As a former atheist, I first found out God must exist, then choose Christianity over other religions.
God, the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit is non-negotiable for us. The Gospel can be proclaimed without compromise in a respectful & non confrontational way with the hope that a person might receive it having the time to think it over (days, weeks, months etc. ).
Perhaps its just your imagination. Plenty of people are convinced that they are in a deep relationship with their god too.If he doesn't exist I don't know who ive been talking to (and more importantly who is talking back 0.o)
Your entire faith rests on human witnesses that lived 2000 years ago. We all know how flimsy and unreliable human witnessing can be. I don't see it as unlikely at all.If a person is intellectually honest, they will always acknowledge that possibility (I think), however unlikely it might seem.
It seems to me that if you wanted to know whether the Bible was true or not, that you would need to know the intentions of the authors that wrote it. Are you a mind reader? Can you magically see into the minds of Matthew, Mark, Luke and see whether or not they were interested in telling the truth? I don't think so. They are dead.The facts do speak for themselves. If someone loves the truth then they will recognize that what Jesus says is true. Sometimes we prefer to not know the truth, or seek to conceal the truth because we find it uncomfortable.