Well, I can attest to the goodness of God because God is my best friend. I feel closer to God than I think I would to my wife if I was married. He is my spirit friend. When I am with God, I feel like a little baby. God holds on to me, I can feel God's prescence. God shows me different things in my life. Sometimes I will see images of little babies and I will feel Gods love even as my Father relates to me like I am his little son!
It is awesome!
The other spirits that I have encountered have not been as friendly. They have been evil. I do not know much about Hinduism, I would stay away. I do not necessarily think that all other belief systems outside of Christianity have no spirituality behind them, I doubt that the spirits involve are related to the ultimate reality of God who is greater than what is recorded in the Bible or elsewhere.
I could not say for each religious tradition whether have contact with God or the degree of their moral knowledge. I believe, following John Wesley, Zwingli, perhaps Aquinas, some figures in the early church and many passages of scripture that people outside of the Christian faith can have some understanding of God and be saved.
I do not believe there has ever been a person in history who has not had the chance to be saved and to attain the knowledge of God. That said, there are a diversity of different competing religious truth claims which are obviously contradictory. I think there are different spiritual powers related to the different religions. The reason that religion has been such an important part of human history is that God's power is availible for all. I have had revelation of different events in my life that show me that there are processes of sowing and reaping spiritual seeds that do not necessarily create completely good or completely evil outcomes. In Samuel, it talks about how an evil spirit from the LORD went and tormented Saul. There are evil spirits in the world definately, and a lot that are not good or evil.
I do not think all the religions of the world are a satanic conspiracy though, I think it is more complicated than that, where people do have moral knowledge and sometimes propositional knowledge of God (as many faiths acknowledge Jesus, Islam and Judaism are very similar, there are other parallels, different things different religious scholars agree on).
I can promise you that Christianity is true, as for the other religions, Jesus says "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me". He wants people to come to Him. Maybe they can come to him some other way, it says the Abraham and Melchizedeck did, but Jesus has the self confidence to declare that He, above all else, is God and there is none like him.
It is awesome!
The other spirits that I have encountered have not been as friendly. They have been evil. I do not know much about Hinduism, I would stay away. I do not necessarily think that all other belief systems outside of Christianity have no spirituality behind them, I doubt that the spirits involve are related to the ultimate reality of God who is greater than what is recorded in the Bible or elsewhere.
I could not say for each religious tradition whether have contact with God or the degree of their moral knowledge. I believe, following John Wesley, Zwingli, perhaps Aquinas, some figures in the early church and many passages of scripture that people outside of the Christian faith can have some understanding of God and be saved.
I do not believe there has ever been a person in history who has not had the chance to be saved and to attain the knowledge of God. That said, there are a diversity of different competing religious truth claims which are obviously contradictory. I think there are different spiritual powers related to the different religions. The reason that religion has been such an important part of human history is that God's power is availible for all. I have had revelation of different events in my life that show me that there are processes of sowing and reaping spiritual seeds that do not necessarily create completely good or completely evil outcomes. In Samuel, it talks about how an evil spirit from the LORD went and tormented Saul. There are evil spirits in the world definately, and a lot that are not good or evil.
I do not think all the religions of the world are a satanic conspiracy though, I think it is more complicated than that, where people do have moral knowledge and sometimes propositional knowledge of God (as many faiths acknowledge Jesus, Islam and Judaism are very similar, there are other parallels, different things different religious scholars agree on).
I can promise you that Christianity is true, as for the other religions, Jesus says "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me". He wants people to come to Him. Maybe they can come to him some other way, it says the Abraham and Melchizedeck did, but Jesus has the self confidence to declare that He, above all else, is God and there is none like him.
