Why did God choose to write things the way he did? Why is the Old Testament apparently a set of laws only for early evolved humans 2-6,000 years ago? Why have so many other religions popped up that are clearly as convincing as Christianity is? Why is the Bible no more verifiable than the Koran? Why would God expect intelligent, reasonable, evolved humans to believe the Bible over any other holy book? Why is it so difficult for Muslims (or any non-Christian) to convert to Christianity? Why is science in the Bible clearly false and impossible?
While I'm very receptive to the idea of an intelligent designer for the universe, it's literally laughable to think that the Bible is the product of this perfectly loving, benevolent creator. If this is God's work, then he clearly failed as he did pre-flood.
Third times a charm?
Sure don't have a clue why "Third times a charm."
You know, if you offended me like this, I would NOT talk to you. I would think you
chose not to be my friend, and I would not choose to talk to you until you decided to be respectful. You're saying these things about the God of the Universe!
God does not have to tolerate your weak thinking, or your ineffective, powerless, awkward, human intelligence (which is not intelligence anyway). He laughs at your thinking. Your thinking is all wrong!
We humans have to come to God in humility not demanding, pushing and insulting.
In Mark 4:
10 When he [Jesus] was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that,
they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven![a] 13 Then Jesus said to them, Dont you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a cropsome thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.
This means that God sows seeds in everyone, including you, but if you have infertile ground, then nothing grows and Satan takes away anything you have heard so that you cannot even consider it.
You must have some fertile ground or you wouldn't be asking, but you have a lot of arrogance against God, and it is hard for Him to get through that since arrogance is what brings in sin. (I'm not being any h harder on you than you are being on God.)
Try this:
Romans 10:
9 If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
In Mark 10, a father came to Jesus to ask him to deliver his son. He said to Jesus, "
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It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.
23 If you can? said Jesus. Everything is possible for one who believes. 24 Immediately the boys father exclaimed, I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!
And if you can't believe, then say this: "Help my unbelief" as the father of this boy that was healed said.
Lord, I thank You for questions. I praise You that You are the God that is more than enough. I bind the devil who is stealing the Word, and I lose the power of the Word of God to overpower this person. I ask You now for this questioner to see You, to have You revealed in Your Glory. I ask for salvation to become real, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
God bless you. I hope you are awake when it happens because, if not, you will miss it entirely.