(September 10, 2022 at 12:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: TL;DR, so I’ll just reply to the title:
I can’t find God for the same reason I can’t find Bigfoot, goblins, chem trails, chupacabras, pixies, reptilian aliens, angels, fire-breathing dragons, ogres, centaurs and guac that doesn’t disgust me.
Things that don’t exist are notable for how how hard they are to find.
Boru
Don't you think that responding to a post that was too long for you to read is a foolish thing to do? Thank you for proving my point to The Grand Nudger.
(September 10, 2022 at 12:16 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I have to agree on the guac thing but am still hoping to stumble upon a pixie; and dragons are just so cool that they really should exist.
A similarly disrespectful and foolish post to the above; but I don't expect anything more from you people, neither was my post intended for any of you, excluding the end of it.
(September 10, 2022 at 12:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Perhaps you should become well read in atheist literature™ before you say things like...atheists are fools? Hey, maybe we are, but how would you know?
I'd love to lean in on this idea of how the heart is deceitful above all things, though. Do you think that's true? If you do..do you also think that a christian heart™ might be deceitful?
My own father was an atheist, and I've argued with you people plenty enough to know how stubborn and foolish you can be.
Your question is a bit tricky. There are many people who proclaim themselves to be Christians, for one, who absolutely are not (most of them, in fact). Their hearts have indeed deceived them.
And who can say who is a true Christian? I can say there are those I believe are Christian, but are they? And how about myself? Maybe my own heart deceives me. I have to at least acknowledge that possibility, yes.
The problem here is that people like you seek absolute, incontrovertible proof and certainty. That's not what faith is about, not how the Lord designed its purpose. God is Spirit; He is the Word, that is, He isn't defined by the tangible, but by the intangible element of His character, His righteousness. That is why faith is necessary.
And really, faith has very little to do with the existence of God. His existence is obvious to those whom He hasn't deliberately blinded. Faith is about believing in His righteousness and walking by it, by the intangible, despite the tangible fighting us much of the time.
