I read the Bible
Created on: April 20th, 2006
I think all of it is true (except the part that says God exists)
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Will God forgive my inability to believe in His existence?
It's like this, yes He will forgive you, and yes He wants to forgive you, but you have to want to know Him in return, in order for Him to forgive you. God knows your having trouble believing in Him and He understands that, but He wants you to look for Him even though you have doubts. When you say to yourself "If God is real, then I want to know Him." then your on the right track. As you look for Him, He will confirm Himself to you.
How do you look for Him? Just keep asking Him to show Himself to you and mean it. I promise He will show up. You can even say "God I don't know if your real or not, I'm not even sure if God is Allah, or Buddah, or Jesus, but will the real God please stand up?" That's all He expects from you for now, because that's all you can offer. And remember now matter hom much bad crap you've done in the past God don't care, even if you murdered someone, God still wants you and still loves you like crazy.
John 5:40
I tried believing, I just can't. It's not me. It's great that you tried! You gave up to soon though, don't feel discouraged. You say that you feel like you just can't believe in God. Is it because of something intellectual someone told you that sounded right on? Maybe something traumatic happened to you and now you just feel like you hate God for what He did to you. Perhaps it's that you are choosing not to believe becuase your scared or for another reason.
Maybe you tell yourself "God couldn't love someone like me, I such a f*cked up person."
I can't tell you why you have trouble believing in God but I will say this, It is you, and you can.
Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
You were created for God and to have a personal relationship with God. He desires to be your friend and helper but you need to show Him that you want Him there for you. Let Him know that you do. Simply tell him.
I don't stop anyone else from believing whatever they want.
It's ok that you don't stop anyone from believing what they want since you don't even know what you believe.
If he actually exists, will he forgive me? If not, why?
YES WITHOUT QUESTION HE WILL COMPLETELY ENTIRELY 100% FORGIVE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER DONE NO MATTER HOW BAD IT IS PERIOD. He won't even bring it back up like some people do when they sya they forgive you and later on whren your in a situation with them shove it back in your face what you did to them. When He says He forgives you, He forgives you.
1 Peter 3:18a "For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you
to God." Ephesians 1:7 "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace."
If "God is Love", as the book of John says, then how can Hell exist?
God did not create hell for man, he created it for satan and his angels.
Matthew 25:41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Then why the hell does God send people there? He doesn't. They send themselves there.
When your the parent of a child and they disobey you, if you let it go and never discipline them, are you really loving the child? Does a parent really enjoy rearing their child? Do they want to do it? No.
The truth of the matter is this, the penalty for one sin, just one, is hell forever, even if it's as simple as stealing a pen by accident from the local store.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death (spiritual death aka hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now your probably thinking what the hell, thats not love thats insanity. I don't deserve to go to hell for stealing a pen, your God sucks!!! Right? Well let me put it to you this way... God is the most holiest thing ever. Holy meaning He is perfect in every way and sinless in every way. When we sin just once, no matter how small or miniscule the sin is, we become disqualified
for being in the presence of God because if we ever really stood in the true presence of God and we were with sin, it would be a lot worse then hell. Your spirit would be tortured to a ridiculous amount (moreso than hell) if it was in the Holy presence of God and you were unholy. Plus your spirit never dies, it's eternal, that's how we can live in heaven or hell for eternity. Even the fires of hell won't destory your spirit. When God puts you in hell, He is literally doing you a favor.
So what if I choose that I don't want to go to hell? Obviously i'm doomed because I've done a real lot of bad stuff.
God knew about the whole issue of sin seperating us from Him a long time ago, so he had a plan. He would justify all the sin of the whole earth to bridge the gap between Him and people. How? He sent Jesus to die on the cross for all of mankind.
What's so special about Jesus? Jesus is God in the flesh. He was the only one to live their whole entire life without sinning even a single time, H
time, He was able to do this because He was God. He was tempted like us, experienced life like us, etc. but never gave into sin a single damn time and so when He died on the cross He took the sins from every single person on the whole earth and put it upon Himself. He became the perfect sacrifice for everyone. Then He went to hell, but because He was also God, He had the power to come back out of hell, and He did, three days later. At that moment in time all the power of sin was broken for every person on e
on earth and sinful man could then be with God for eternity instead of going to hell.
So then why do people still go to hell?
Because they choose to. They decide to NOT believe in Jesus or God and so in turn they pay for their own sin. God hates this and it makes Him very sad. But when we choose to beleive in Jesus, we are guaranteed eternal life in heaven no matter how much we've messed up and no matter how much we WILL mess up.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that so whomever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
It's that easy??
Yup. Seem to good to be true??! Well God is love... =)
How can it be loving to allow people from far away countries who have never even heard of Jesus in their life to be condemed to an eternity of torture?
I have my own personal belief in this.
Romans 1:25, 19 Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts.
Because God is perfect, that also qualifies Him to be the perfect judge. He knows what's perfectly fair and unfair and because God is love, He will do in love what is fair.
I believe that for people who never hear Gods word that God will reveal Himself to them in different ways. He knows that this person will never hear about in Him by another human so God compensates. He will tell them about Himself in dreams, in an audible voice, or maybe when they die God will ask them "do you accept me?" God knows what to do and He won't leave anyone out because that wouldn't be perfectly fair, and God is perfect.
Sooooooooooo
All you need to do is tell God in your own personal way that you want to know Him. Tell Him that you accept what Jesus has done for you on the cross and that you accept His free gift of heaven. Tell Him, like you told me, that you still have some doubts, but you do want to believe what is true. Ask Him to show you what is real and true because HE WANTS to show you.
Actually, most Christians are not fundamentalists and do not take the bible literally. The good ones read it and try to grow from it, while the not so good ones read it and either try to interpret it our cite it as a source of reason. The ignorance of the anti-religious is on par with that of the ignorance of the overzealous Christians. I'm not religious.
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