If Not Hell then what?

[Drich]

Actually you can.

Because my life is a testament to who well A/S/K works.

Your life is a testament to how some people are just lucky, sometimes.

God took an illiterate, taught him how to read and comperhend the written word where 12 years of grammer school failed.

Not so illiterate, then.... 12 years of learning... -.-'
I mastered the art of reading after 2 or 3 years.
Not saying I'm better, just saying you're not making that good of a case for yourself... lying much?
(I always assume everyone can perform mental operations as well as I can)

From there He opened his mind and heart to precepts and understanding that span the bible and on into being able to answer all of his own question about God, life and our purpose here. That developed into help others with their own questions, which rolled into an on line ministry for 5 years of answering christian questions, and a year and 1/2 of defending the faith from all takers ranging from doctors and lawyers to an oxford professor, to doo-mases who just hate because God has not granted them their wishes. To having a paper researched for publication on an orgins account that encorprates genesis and evolution seemlessly.

So you dedicated your life to reading the bible over and over and over and memorized it's various translations and told others about it... congratz for wasting your time.

Not to mention what He has done in my marriage life, and the sucess I have been given in my company. (which is poised to be bought out, and I am to take a job as an exectuive/engneer, shortly after the project i am currently working on goes to market later this year.)

Luck at work, crap marriage that you decided to endure...

I know there is a God.

No you don't. You think you know, because you believe.
Different thing...
It's all in your mind, remember?

Not because of my sucesses, but because of how deep and complete my failures have been. I am constantly reminded of my short commings and how quickly everything I have can be lost. why? Because none of what I have is because I earned or deserved any of it. It was literally given to me, and I am just a steward of God's gifts nothing more. No God= No gifts. No gifts= Drich dead a long long time ago.

yeah... you're a crap human being that got a break and attributed it to some higher power, because you couldn't come up with any other reason for it... how about... luck!?
Are you aware of what "luck" means?

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Based on what?

Based on the singular idea that your world view (there is no God) HAS to be correct?

What if your wrong? What if God will not give you anything because you are too proud to ask for it?

What if I'm too proud to ask for anything and I get it anyway?
Does that mean that asking has no bearing on the outcome?, or that I did ask but wasn't aware of it? or that god doesn't care about asking? or that there is no god giving stuff to people and some people get lucky sometimes?
Considering the amount of people asking and getting nothing and those not asking and getting something, I'd say there is no correlation between asking and getting. So, it seems more obvious that your god (that gives stuff to people who ask for it) is not a real entity.

Maybe you do not understand what luck is. Luck is occasional happenstance that results in unmerited good fortune, not a way of life. people can not run a business off of luck. A company can not cover operational costs depending on the occasional good thing happening. Larger companies do not buy out smaller ones because they are lucky. Mechanics are not given engineering jobs because they are lucky and figure things out that proper engineers can't. What Makes this something more than luck is the consistency needed to support and maintain the level we operate at everyday. From unsolicited work, to being awared major contracts from business we have never dealt with and/or never even heard of before. (Things happen out of the blue.)

This isn't a one week, one month thing. We've been in business for over 10 years, and it started out with a unsolicited loan for 25K from a Jewish man that I had only ever met in passing once. (I did not even know his name when he approached me.) From that the Lord has effectively doubled this business every year. even in the great depression we are just coming out of. We've done this consistently with out the tools or typical education needed to work and operate on the level we have been able to acheaive, and maintain. While other better suited companies in this field have closed up shop.

You can dismiss my work here on this site, my business, and my maritial relationship any way other than luck. As there has been far too many coincidences to be considered just luck.

Call me a liar, call me deluded, call me anything but lucky. Because I have equal if not greater failures than all of my success put together. It is through my failures that I have been able to accurately define my personal limitations. It is through my limitations that I can ascribe my success to God. It is through sheer volume of consistant 'good fortune' that I know I am not simply 'lucky.' I have been literally blessed, because I am faithful to what God has given me.

I am not special I am simply running through the promises God makes to each of us in scripture. It is because I A/S/K for the Holy Spirit that I was given a measure of the Holy Spirit. With that measure of the HS I prayed to God that He make me 'faithful' to what I had been given. He did and I was. Subsequently I was given more, to which I was faithful to what I was given.. Multiply that times 20 years and here I stand with personal proof of God. It is the same 'proof' God offers you.