(February 1, 2015 at 10:49 pm)Drich Wrote: Those things in of themselves are meaningless. Those are just the outwards signs of the involvement of the Holy Spirit in your life (what we are supposed to be a/s/k-ing for.) the proof happens on the inside. God opens your eyes, ears and heart.. That is the difference between someone who 'wins' the lottery and someone who has God working with them.
That doesn't answer the question whatsoever.
If getting through hardships is proof that your beliefs are true, how come people that don't have your beliefs can do the same thing?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell