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God is rich unto all that call upon him (Romans 10:9-13), so you obviously lacked the faith that a person must have to be saved, but drew back rather into perdition (Hebrews 10:38-39). You simply chose not to believe, nor did you allow your heart to be conditioned to it. If you had desired or chosen to believe, you wouldn't make excuses as to why you fell away.
The prophecies in the Bible are usually too vague and many have not come true. Tyre still exists and Egypt never had a 40 year stretch of being unpopulated and barren.
Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
1 John 2:19 "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."This is mighty presumptuous!
I guess you would be required to make such an assertion, otherwise the book you adhere to, as reality and fact, would instead be patently false
But I hate to burst your bubble.... I was a devout believer for decades.
Sorry. This is one of the reasons I'm on here now.
It's about what we can observe in any way. I can't see air or wind but we can measure it.
I disagree. When you come by some evidence it is a choice to what credence you give that evidence and what you choose to make of it.
You have claimed this before. I think that goes with the unbelivers as well. You ignore the hits and focus on what you believe are the misses...even when those misses have an explanation.
So please stop.
Science is the measurement, observation, and study of the physical world. However, science can't measure emotion, but rather only the physical manifestation of a person's emotional response on the outside. It cannot measure logic, but rather can only measure a person's ability again on the outside. Science cannot explain where a conscience comes from. These are not material things, but these are things we experience, yet not with our eyes. Science is limited in its observation and study because it's limit is based upon the fact that the entire of creation is not all in a natural, physical state. Science can only measure and study what is tangible. There are many experiences in our human condition that lead us to understand that there is that which lies beyond tangibility.
This shows me that you don't know what you are talking about. All religions are not the same and that shows that they all can't be true.Yes, because all believers in their holy texts assert the same thing
We can detect God? How? And it has to be more than just a vague feeling.We can detect it, but that is where choice comes in.
All are condemned because all of us have sinned (Romans 3:23); we have committed evil acts, and loved evil rather than light, whether it be lying, stealing, murdering, raping, pillaging, lusting, coveting, etc. These are all deeds of unrighteousness that cause death, destruction, mayhem and peril in the world and its our fault completely. We die because we sin. God condemns us because we deserve it, period. A divine being created us to be in perfect relationship with him with the free will to disobey him (the source of life), thereby severing ourselves from the source of life through our own pride and lust and causing death to come into the world and to pass upon all our descendants.Throwing scripture at me is about as useful as me throwing a verse back at you, where you have skepticism of the author
How about instead addressing why a divine being would eternally condemn someone for an attribute in which they cannot control (i.e.) belief.
