Genesis1315
Ladies
You can have a personal experience with a false god just as easily as you can have a personal experience with the True God.
(from experience also)
(from experience also)
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“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
-- Julian HuxleyI recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian. The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat -- which wasn't there. "That may be," said the philosopher: "but a theologian would have found it."
Genesis1315 said:Yes, I did, and it does. But again, it filled a desire.
While desire plays a part in belief, I am not sure that hope does in the way it is defined here.
One could also say though that you begin to see things they way they really are instead of the way you thought they were.
Hmmmm, must ponder that one
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Marcylene said:You have a beautiful testimony, Gen. Thank you for sharing your heart.
DV, as I have pondered how to precisely explain God, I thought of these verses in Proverbs 30.
18There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
I think truly God is similair to the concept of those verses. He is too wonderful for us to ever explain adequately. He is the Creator. He is the One we can choose to spend eternity with. Of course His Majesty is inexhaustible!
In addition, I think the manner in which He woos us and His relationship with us is almost indescribable! He draws each of us...sort of on our terms, if you will. I believe He speaks to us, in Love, with things that are close to our heart. As individuals, while we all come to God by the death of His Son, our walk with Him is as differing as we are.
The bottom line truly is that belief in Christ is built on faith. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, and it takes faith to believe those things therein. Then, once saved, faith is part of the fruit of the Spirit! Funny, as we grow in Christ and walk with Him, it sometimes hardly seems like faith at all, for He becomes very real to us.
And he saith unto them, Because of your little faith: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.