What if my personal faith in Jesus is an illusion and I am believing in vain. What if I am a false convert and don't know it?
I have understood that the Santa and tooth fairy things are meant to teach a child to imagine. And they are meant to help a child to grow to be able to distinguish truth from reality. They are expected to grow to the point where they realize it is time to be too smart to be fooled by that stuff, anymore
and to enjoy having so graduated.
So, possibly, you took all that the wrong way. I understand, though, that ones say all that was lies and deception. But, even if this is so, you can be thankful to God that you have become more able to tell the difference between what is true and what isn't. And trust God to make you more alert, all the time, so you can't be fooled.
Ones say, don't assume anything! And God's word says,
"Test all things; hold fast what is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
God does desire for us His children to make sure about things, with Him
And He is honest; so it is wise not to make a project of raging about how humans are not like God.
Now, of course, if humans have told you untrue things, it can be natural to decide that humans might not be telling the truth about Jesus. I offer
> I understand your point if this is what you mean.
And with this > isn't it so how we humans can fool our own selves and not know it!! > no need for anyone else to help us deceive our own selves.
Why do we? One thing I think of, now, is this > we want things to be our way; so we can tend to believe what we want to be true.
May be this is what is happening with certain ones who believe the idea of evolution, for example. The idea of evolution can include competition and survival of the superior. And humans can tend to want to be more and have more than others; therefore, they might be ok with a scientific or a political or religious process which is about competition and being superior to others.
There even are people who want to think they are superior to God, too smart for Him, too good for Jesus. Therefore, ones selfish and into pleasure can have their way of not wanting the Gospel to be true. And we can make ourselves the judges, wanting to be judges, ourselves . . . as ones so able to fool our own selves and not even know this.
But God is way more and better than we humans. Humans can make things like computers which are so less than we are. But God makes creatures which are alive!!! Atoms and molecules and sun energy do not make you a feeling being.
And even though Jesus is so superior to us, Jesus cared about us enough to leave Heaven and come here in a human body in order to reach us and personally share with us and save us so we can share as His family in all His good which He has with God Almighty His Heavenly Father.
But humans can not tend to be so ready for love and family sharing and caring. So, this keeps us from knowing and experiencing how God in His love is. But Jesus so suffered and died like He did, so that we can trust in Him and be forgiven and reconciled with God and then so share with Him
. . . personally . . .
not like how a numbed number of people mainly relate with their pleasures and entertainment while with each other. God can change us to become truly loving in personal and tender sharing with Him plus with others who are this way.
