Subduction Zone
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Who said I have to? You?
If you were genuinely seeking you can find plenty of evidence showing that Jesus lived. I am sure over your past 32,560 posts many people have tried to show evidence. Some people seem to enjoy doing that, I have no interest as that is a waste of time.
The evidence that Jesus lived is not all that strong. And so what? The evidence that he lived only supports that there was a man named Jesus that was crucified. The resurrection story is not supported outside of the religion at all and those stories were not written until at least a generation after his death. None by eyewitnesses.
It could and it could also apply to other spiritual beings like angels and demons.
Which is why God must be spiritually discerned.
But to even begin to have spiritual discernment your spirit needs to be awake. You don't feel it because your spirit is, asleep for want of a better word, and you want to keep it that way. Which is completely your choice. No one can make someone believe something. Maybe for some seeing a miracle in front of them might cause them to change but just as many would attempt to write it off as something else.
That is only more self serving nonsense. It is a very weak excuse that only convinces believers. You forget that many atheists used to be believers.
The very reason the world has many religions, cults, occultist beliefs such as tarot cards and horoscopes is because people do feel the spiritual. Their discernment is pretty poor, tending to be looking in the wrong places but they at least feel and acknowledge the spiritual. If the spiritual was simply made up you would not have millions upon millions of people looking, experiencing and living for it, atheism would be the majority. It isn't because people feel and know that there is more out there even if they are confused about it.
No, people just like an explanation of the unexplained. Sadly they are usually wrong.
I was more talking about the people who have grabbed a verse or two and made huge claims around it. Like the Jehovah Witness (classed as a cult) say that the star over the house in Bethlehem at the birth of Christ was really Satan.
I will agree that that is an abuse of the Bible. But your use of verses is not terribly different.
As far as people who disagree over certain points in the Bible, some may be Christians some might not be, but only God knows that for certain. People are not just spiritual we are also mental and physical and those can get in the way, turn us down wrong paths. Emotions can cloud judgment. Once a certain path is taken we can be rather stubborn in it too. However even those arguing over something like baptism would still believe in the deity of Christ. They would still say repent.
If there is no God then atheists probably understand them better than most Christians. Have you considered that?
I don't believe any person who has communed with Jesus, who was born again spiritually has ever turned around and later become an atheist.
Not: Gone to church, read the Bible, called themselves Christian label' because this is what they grey up with, or believed with their heads; but born again where you feel God's presence.
The people who become atheists have never truly felt God or communed with God.
There is Christianity of the mind and that of the spirit and they are not the same. A true born again Christian can back slide, they can be angry with God and try and ignore God, but to become an atheist would mean denying ever feeling and knowing God. This would contradict the stance that "God doesn't exist", because someone cannot become a born again Christian without feeling God. I would more question if what they did feel was more hyped up emotion like some have felt from large gospel gatherings. That type of group euphoria may be caused by endorphins rather than spiritual discernment.
If someone becomes an atheist from 'understanding the Bible' then they too were never Christians to begin with. This is the head not the spirit.
You would be wrong in that assumption.
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