Experiencing 'proof'

[Drich]

I don't have a specific exampe on hand (maybe someone else here does?), but the point is that even if I did, even if the person followed the path laid out in luke 11, if that person died having not found god you would still have some excuse to say why he didn't, wouldn't you?

I can say that if a person lived a life time earnestly A/S/K and did not find God then that person can still have the assureance that God indeed found Him. We are not all built the same way and not all of us will be given over to spiritual gifts. The one in particular that allows you to 'see' God, is a spiritual awareness. The fact that this person spent a life time searching for God is still a testament to God's promise in Luke 11. In that we have been promised a measure of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that establishes and Maintains Faith. to live a life searching means this person is faith to what he has been given. If the Holy Spirit only saw fit to give this person the wherewithall to simply search and he indeed did search his whole life then God will welcome him into his rest for his faithfulness to what he has been given. That is the crux of our end of the deal. We have to be faithful to what Ever God has given us. If this man has then God will not find fault with him. His Faith does not have to look like mine in order for him to be exaulted by God. That is why we have been allowed so Many different denominations/brands of christianity. Because if we are truly faithful to what we have been given, we will manifest different expressions of faith.

Can you imagine an instance in which you would admit that the path in luke 11 did not work, even though applied correctly and persistently? I cannot; you would deny that he followed it either by saying that he did it wrong outright, or, if he followed it to the letter, that he missed so hidden condition that was [somehow] implied somewhere in the bible.

The only time it will not work is if you do not hold up on your end of the deal if for whatever reason you stop Asking, seeking, knocking or are not giving all three all you have. I can by experience tell you God will let you flounder until do as you have been instructed.