Divine Inspiration

[Darkstar]

"a Rose by any other name would be just as sweet." -Juliet

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Are you being obstinate or just that uninformed about recorded history durning that time period? If not the Jews who (As in what culture) would have written anything about Moses? The Egyptians did not record failures entire segments of their history have been destroyed whole primiads have been torn down block by block because of their hatred of failure. So who outside of egypt could have written anything about Moses besides the Jews? Then who cared enough to do so in that time period? You observation fails because you assume (wrongly) that human history was recorded for posterity as it is now, and that there was a world wide effort to document great events. When in fact if one were to honestly at what has survived we see little more than nations dated propaganda.

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Evidently the latter (badly uninformed). Nonetheless, there is still isn't archeological evidence that the Hebrews were enslaved by the Egyptians.

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Because we worship the same God. just in a different way. We need to understand both to know why there was a change, and what that change means for us.

Waisted? no. Not unless I had planned to live for myself drinking and whoring my time away.

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Is that really what you think atheists do, drink and whore their time away?

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As their results are directly tied to the condition of their hearts as God tells us, and as a man's heart is a variable I can not account for then it is obvious to me that many who will go through the motions of "A-S-K" (Ask Seek Knock) will not find anything. God has promised to give to those who make the effort mirriored in Luke 11. Not their personal version of what God outlines in Luke 11.

I have studied many of the other religions and none offer what Christianity does. Islam offers reward, and indulgance. Buddhisim offers enlightment, and a greater sense of awareness. Mormonism offer one the status of a god, to rule over and populate your own world. Hinduism offers a better life. Only Christianity offers a one on one relationship with the Living God for eternity.

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So what you're saying is that 1. we can't convince ourselves that god exists until we have [strong] faith in him, and 2. You picked the religion that offered the best reward, in your opinion?

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Indeed God reveals Himself to people.

Because worship without belief is meaningless. God does not care about the motions of worship but the condition of one's heart that drives Himself to worship.

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But if I already don't believe, then my worship will be meaningless, so he won't reveal himself, so...kinda locked the keys in the car, huh?

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I see the wheels turning this is good! but think about it a little more. God can already do this now. (Choose who will choose Him) So if our lives are not meant to allow God to Choose which one of us will choose Him. Then that means our lives were meant for us to know what or who we would choose for eternity.

How do I know? because I was judged (durning my time as an Atheist) and knew without doubt that Christ's judgement was fair and righteous.http://www.christianforums.com/t7474493/ post number 6

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I don't know what you mean in that sentence. I think you mean to say that god doesn't reveal himself to all people, but if that is the case, then why does he expect us all to believe? Why won't god reveal himself in a way that wouldn't allow for relatively simple alternative explanations? Is he deliberately concealing himself?
If you don't believe in evolution (I don't know if you do) then god must be doing a really good job of obscuring his existence. Also, I wonder how it is that you take the story of Noah's Ark to be literal. It is one of the least believable bible stories in my opinion and if you take it to be literally true then you appear to have too much faith, blind faith even. The best explanation I could find was:

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