Raven,
It's hard to say what it would look like, because making a decision like that is not a constant repetitive thing. When you breathe, you don't think to yourself on each breath, "breathe. Breathe. Breathe." You just do it and live. When you make a decision to go on a vacation next week, you might have all kinds of worries about what might happen on your vacation or that something might fall through. But you do not fix this problem by frantically trying to prove that nothing bad could statistically happen or repeat to yourself, "I'm still going on vacation. I'm still going on vacation," nor to you try to convince yourself that you will still go on vacation. You just keep your plans to go on the trip and don't change them! Then you buy your plane tickets, pack your luggage, and get on the plane. All you have to do is confess Jesus' Truth and hold it as truth. And when the doubts come, refuse to submit to them and deny Jesus. Just do not change your decision.
I do not know for certain that there is a God because it's been 100% clearly proven to me. But I'm not an agnostic. Based on the evidence I do have of God and Christ, I chose to believe that it's true. If you don't want to be an agnostic, then don't! This sentence,
"If God chooses people to born knowing they wouldn't believe he choose for the person not to be saved."
is an OCD sentence if I ever saw one. And I mean you no disrespect, because I know how real and logical it proves to be to you, and I have thought many things just like this and often still think things like it. The thing is, this sentence is chasing itself in a circle. You are mixing God's power to transcend time and control everything and the slack in the leash He allows us to make our own decisions. It's a mystery how God has everything in existence laid out yet He simultaneously allows us to make our own decisions. It is as inexplainable a quandary as the existence of the Trinity. But you have got to believe that if your desire is to be saved, it is not being held from you! Those who go to Hell are those who CHOOSE to go to Hell, because ultimately Hell is choosing a life without God.
As for 2012, the Bible clearly states that no one will know the date of the apocalypse but God Himself. I read this one girl's explanation on Yahoo of why so many people predicted 2012:
"...because many of the societies that predicted it were advanced in astronomy.Simple as that. Plenty of peoples over the years have been able to predict where the planets would move and when they would align.The apocalypse issue comes in because,while certainly advanced in astronomy,they were still highly superstitious cultures.They were the same ones that sacrificed people to the gods and thought virgins killed diseases.
They saw this rare event occurring years from when they lived and thought it meant the end of the world..." - Aeca
There are many seeming proofs of other beliefs and religions, but ultimately their evidence falls flat against that of Christianity. This is only feeding your compulsions, but let me go ahead and recommend that you read all three of Lee Strobel's books:
The Case for Faith
The Case for Christ
The Case for a Creator
Lee Strobel, the author, was a dedicated, hard-set atheist who didn't like Christianity at all. He set out to interview scholars about evidence of Jesus and God's reality, expecting to baffle those he interviewed with tough questions and thus prove Christianity false once and for all. He ultimately came to confess Christ as his savior because the evidence overwhelmed him and he felt that he could not deny Jesus' existence. He took this feeling and chose to submit to it, and believed in Christ. (See what I told you? If you were on the other side of the fence in doubt, you would see all the evidence he saw and have trouble believing in atheism/agnosticism!)
You do not have only a year to be saved. You have all the time you need to make your decision. God knows your heart, and it is not His wish for you to go to Hell. As the Bible says, he has prolonged these days so that all who will may enter Heaven.
There's a Snow Patrol song that I really like, 'Just Say Yes'. This is a few lines of it:
Just say yes
Just say there's nothing holding you back*
It's not a test
Nor a trick of the mind
Only love
~~
It's simple and you know it is
You know it is
*(Though in OCD we do know it feels like doubts are holding us back.)
It's hard to say what it would look like, because making a decision like that is not a constant repetitive thing. When you breathe, you don't think to yourself on each breath, "breathe. Breathe. Breathe." You just do it and live. When you make a decision to go on a vacation next week, you might have all kinds of worries about what might happen on your vacation or that something might fall through. But you do not fix this problem by frantically trying to prove that nothing bad could statistically happen or repeat to yourself, "I'm still going on vacation. I'm still going on vacation," nor to you try to convince yourself that you will still go on vacation. You just keep your plans to go on the trip and don't change them! Then you buy your plane tickets, pack your luggage, and get on the plane. All you have to do is confess Jesus' Truth and hold it as truth. And when the doubts come, refuse to submit to them and deny Jesus. Just do not change your decision.
I do not know for certain that there is a God because it's been 100% clearly proven to me. But I'm not an agnostic. Based on the evidence I do have of God and Christ, I chose to believe that it's true. If you don't want to be an agnostic, then don't! This sentence,
"If God chooses people to born knowing they wouldn't believe he choose for the person not to be saved."
is an OCD sentence if I ever saw one. And I mean you no disrespect, because I know how real and logical it proves to be to you, and I have thought many things just like this and often still think things like it. The thing is, this sentence is chasing itself in a circle. You are mixing God's power to transcend time and control everything and the slack in the leash He allows us to make our own decisions. It's a mystery how God has everything in existence laid out yet He simultaneously allows us to make our own decisions. It is as inexplainable a quandary as the existence of the Trinity. But you have got to believe that if your desire is to be saved, it is not being held from you! Those who go to Hell are those who CHOOSE to go to Hell, because ultimately Hell is choosing a life without God.
As for 2012, the Bible clearly states that no one will know the date of the apocalypse but God Himself. I read this one girl's explanation on Yahoo of why so many people predicted 2012:
"...because many of the societies that predicted it were advanced in astronomy.Simple as that. Plenty of peoples over the years have been able to predict where the planets would move and when they would align.The apocalypse issue comes in because,while certainly advanced in astronomy,they were still highly superstitious cultures.They were the same ones that sacrificed people to the gods and thought virgins killed diseases.
They saw this rare event occurring years from when they lived and thought it meant the end of the world..." - Aeca
There are many seeming proofs of other beliefs and religions, but ultimately their evidence falls flat against that of Christianity. This is only feeding your compulsions, but let me go ahead and recommend that you read all three of Lee Strobel's books:
The Case for Faith
The Case for Christ
The Case for a Creator
Lee Strobel, the author, was a dedicated, hard-set atheist who didn't like Christianity at all. He set out to interview scholars about evidence of Jesus and God's reality, expecting to baffle those he interviewed with tough questions and thus prove Christianity false once and for all. He ultimately came to confess Christ as his savior because the evidence overwhelmed him and he felt that he could not deny Jesus' existence. He took this feeling and chose to submit to it, and believed in Christ. (See what I told you? If you were on the other side of the fence in doubt, you would see all the evidence he saw and have trouble believing in atheism/agnosticism!)
You do not have only a year to be saved. You have all the time you need to make your decision. God knows your heart, and it is not His wish for you to go to Hell. As the Bible says, he has prolonged these days so that all who will may enter Heaven.
There's a Snow Patrol song that I really like, 'Just Say Yes'. This is a few lines of it:
Just say yes
Just say there's nothing holding you back*
It's not a test
Nor a trick of the mind
Only love
~~
It's simple and you know it is
You know it is
*(Though in OCD we do know it feels like doubts are holding us back.)
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