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It has little to do with self assurance. It is the Holy Spirit that gives us/me "faith in my heart and in my mind."
So you are saying that God has come "within" you and thats why you're sure. So now I'm guessing you have no doubts and have perfect communion with God now that hes in you. Is that true?
We have a bunch of Christians that are sure, any atheists or non-christian faiths that would like to share would be nice.
I am a Christian because when I read the Gospels I agreed with what Jesus said and did. That is not to say that I believe because of this fact or that fact. Truly enough, I believe in many of the facts and commands that Jesus put forward. I believe in the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman. I believe that money corrupts people and that giving it away to the poor is the best thing to do with it. I believe in meeting hatred with love and violence with non-violence. Those things are just a few of the facts and commands where I'm in full agreement with what Jesus said. But like I said, I do not believe because I agree with a certain list of facts, but rather because I believe that the approach Jesus Christ uses is the correct one. In the Gospels I see that He did not always answer questions, but often replied to questions with new questions and tried to provoke the questioners into thinking for themselves. And I see that He frequently spoke in parables that were left open for interpretation. And I see that when He did give commands it was never with specific instructions to do a certain amount of good deeds, but rather a pointer in a specific direction that left open the question of how much good is good enough. And these are the methods that I believe in, so that's why I became a follower of Jesus.In this time in History with all that is going on around us...like the overload of information, through internet, TV and Newspapers, The reality of multiple world views and the clash of them: Why are you so? Why are you sure that Christianity and Christ are correct or why Is your non-christian faith or lack of faith sound in your own mind and heart. Why are you at peace in your own being that you have chosen the right path?
I'm an atheist. I am the way I am due to the lack of any evidence for a god. existenceAlso the lack of evidence even for jesus's . Also the bible/quaren/etc are all morally corrupt and the gods are shown to be megalomaniacal. The bible/quaren are both books or death, destruction, rape, murder, and other insane ideas. I could go on for hours on contractions and why the bible is really a load of bs. But this is the way I think/feel about the religion, not the people, I love the people because I know where they are and have been there before.
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I'm an existential and moral nihilist, I believe in nothing beyond the physical, and that life has no particular meaning or purpose. I also believe morality is a man made system of control.
I believe I'm right because I logically cannot see any way in which anything supernatural to exist, and there is no evidence to the contrary to convince me otherwise.
I was raised in a Hardcore Baptist home. Super fundi type stuff. I understand the bible extensively, much more then most people who are religious. I have read it front to back a few times. Well like twice then random sections. I for one find the "You have to let the holy ghost guide you to read it" idea to be crazy. All that means is your god failed in his main mission, to impart the words he wanted upon his people. I read the book for what it is, what the words mean as there is no other logical way.
Because God is. Not because I feel He is; for tomorrow I may feel differently. Not because reasoned arguments convince me that He is; for tomorrow I may begin to doubt what once convinced me. Not because I want Him to exist; for tomorrow my wants may change and God may become inconvenient. No, I believe in God because He is as obvious as the universe He has made, as near as my own thoughts, as real as His countless answers to prayer, and as true as the great and precious promises He has fulfilled to me.In this time in History with all that is going on around us...like the overload of information, through internet, TV and Newspapers, The reality of multiple world views and the clash of them: Why are you so? Why are you sure that Christianity and Christ are correct or why Is your non-christian faith or lack of faith sound in your own mind and heart. Why are you at peace in your own being that you have chosen the right path?
Because God is. Not because I feel He is; for tomorrow I may feel differently. Not because reasoned arguments convince me that He is; for tomorrow I may begin to doubt what once convinced me. Not because I want Him to exist; for tomorrow my wants may change and God may become inconvenient. No, I believe in God because He is as obvious as the universe He has made, as near as my own thoughts, as real as His countless answers to prayer, and as true as the great and precious promises He has fulfilled to me.
I could pretend, as so many do, that He has never been, but the foolishness of that fiction is too great for me to sustain. I could shake my fist in defiance of His Soveriegnty and resolve to steer my own course, but I have only to look about me at the countless human shipwrecks to see the terrible folly in placing a blind man at life's helm. I could wall myself in with human "science" and "logic" "til I had erected a fortress unassailable, massive and immoveable. But the builders of these keeps grow cold and blinded by the very walls they erect; they are so proud of the power of their stronghold to obscure God they never realize that these same walls also imprison them.
God is. This is, as far as I'm concerned, a simple, brute fact, which no amount of denial will erase.
Selah.
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