(06-13-2023, 02:03 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I understand why people have trouble with the Bible and with religion.
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I am not going to go into any long drawn out explanation about what happened, because I don't really know myself. I just know that unless you experience what I experienced, and what millions of others have experience, nothing I tell anyone is going to make any sense, and it will be impossible for them to believe.
That's correct. It IS impossible for some folks to believe. I believe there is a reason for that, but I won't give that reason here. it almost always starts a fight when I do, so I generally keep my yap shut about it these days. Once upon a time I was pretty vocal about it, but even Christians would try to take my head off - I've made some of them so mad that they could eat a keg of nails and crap out a railroad rail. So, I keep my yap shut.
Quote:God did not give us a ton of rules, he only gave us ten, and he knows that we have trouble with just that many.
True again. There is a deeper reason, a lesson there, for why we find it so difficult to keep 10 simple rules.
Quote:I think there will be those that will never believe, and if they don't, maybe they were not meant to. I can't say a word against the non believer. I was way to close to being one myself.
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There are. There are people who not only never WILL believe, there are people who CAN'T believe. There are others, perhaps like yourself, who only think they neither can nor will believe - but, like you, God ain't done with them yet, and in the end will make it happen for them. The only question is how hard and how long they will resist, "kick against the goad". Eventually, they wear themselves out if they keep at it long enough. it's when they wear themselves out that resistance fails.
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