@ FallentoReason I've been reading the conversation between yourself and gomtuu77. If you don't mind I have a question for you, do you still believe in the God of scriptures? The reason I ask is this, I do not believe I've ever seen you write that you do or do not believe in Him. I am one who believes that a man can choose to walk away from God after he experiences Him, gomtuu77 gave the very reason from Hebrews, the passage says one falls away, it doesn't say one chooses to quite believing. I see it like this, one starts drinking and finds out that it makes them feel good, so they keep it up for the high. Then the hangovers start and every time after drinking one has to deal with the hangover, drink, hangover, drink, hangover, then one says if I stop so do the hangovers. When the one does stop, they no longer have to deal with those hangovers, they know that if they drink again it will feel good, they do not deny the fact they have learned, drinking feels good, they just do not like the hangovers, so drinking is out of their life.
God can be the same way sometimes, when one loses sight of who He really is, one becomes weary and after awhile will either leave the faith or reconnect with who God is.
Another thing I do not know many Christians who claim the Bible to be a history book, I know plenty that know it as the greatest love story ever told, that includes me. Many places that use to be thought of as only existing in the scripture have been found in archaeological digs, and because of things like this some talk about scriptures like a history book. Certainly the scriptures give a time line down through history, however this time line was counting down to the arrival of Jesus and the wonderful gift of salvation through Him for all of mankind.
God can be the same way sometimes, when one loses sight of who He really is, one becomes weary and after awhile will either leave the faith or reconnect with who God is.
Another thing I do not know many Christians who claim the Bible to be a history book, I know plenty that know it as the greatest love story ever told, that includes me. Many places that use to be thought of as only existing in the scripture have been found in archaeological digs, and because of things like this some talk about scriptures like a history book. Certainly the scriptures give a time line down through history, however this time line was counting down to the arrival of Jesus and the wonderful gift of salvation through Him for all of mankind.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
