Recently I felt really down and tired of harsh reality, so I sat down and asked the Holy Spirit to comfort me. Then suddenly my yahoo messenger popped up and a stranger came on whom I've never had before. We talked a bit and it was really nice. He came from India and is an atheist but he believes in tolerance. This was something I had been thinking of before, how a christian should act with atheists and people of other religions.
So I wanted to ask, does the Holy Spirit also interact with other people somehow? Causing good things to happen, inspiring us, giving us happiness? Paul writes in Acts that God has put joy in the hearts of those who did not know Him yet. Could it be that this was a work of the Holy Spirit?
I am baptized since 2 years now, but I also had a pretty happy childhood and youth when I was still an atheist. I've been trying to believe in God's goodness and came to think that God also gave me the happiness that I sometimes had even when I was still an atheist. It would mean much to me that some of my treasured memories of the time when I was still an atheist, also had God in them.
I mean it's not like christians and those outside are at odds and each other's enemies necessarily. After all, we were outside once too.
So I wanted to ask, does the Holy Spirit also interact with other people somehow? Causing good things to happen, inspiring us, giving us happiness? Paul writes in Acts that God has put joy in the hearts of those who did not know Him yet. Could it be that this was a work of the Holy Spirit?
I am baptized since 2 years now, but I also had a pretty happy childhood and youth when I was still an atheist. I've been trying to believe in God's goodness and came to think that God also gave me the happiness that I sometimes had even when I was still an atheist. It would mean much to me that some of my treasured memories of the time when I was still an atheist, also had God in them.
I mean it's not like christians and those outside are at odds and each other's enemies necessarily. After all, we were outside once too.