(April 13, 2014 at 10:40 pm)professor Wrote: Oh, I forgot you wanted to know why one book is retained and the others rejected?
For me, I did what the Bible said.
I prayed to the God of Heaven- "Our Father...."
I prayed a prayer of repentance. I surrendered.
I felt like I was on a tree branch sawing it off at the trunk.
Woke up 8 hours later without the awareness of sleeping and had an innate knowledge that I knew, that I knew, God was real.
I was born from above.
Previous to this, I laid out all the myriad religions and systems of belief in my mind as a giant mosaic, and because they are contrary to one another- one and only one is the truth and all the rest are lies and shades of lies.
As time has gone by, more learning and more experiences have deepened my absolute confidence in the wisdom of that decision long ago.
Whatever book is contrary to the Bible is a lie.
For me, it is that simple.
And that's something I have only heard from theirsts, never atheists. "If you provide evidence contrary to my book or beliefs, even if that evidence is 100% accurate, I'll continue to believe my book."
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
