Did you follow a process to be saved?
Not really. I saw my daughter born 14 years ago, and I decided it was too amazing for all this to be chance. There is some truth to evolution, but I don't think we have the whole picture yet.
How do you describe a lifeform going from non-inteeligence to intelligence. Just when does a tree start thinking for itself?
I do not want to get into a EVO debate here, I have heard it all already, and I continue to study it in my free time. But these are the things that cause me to seek God.
I read the bible on and off during those 13 years, even a few bible studies. Went to about 4 different churches. Usually after 2 or 3 visits, I would realize that it just wasn't for me. I did not feel God.
Then God called me to a certain church, and it was there that I experienced the Holy Spirit. Even though I had accepted Christ in public several years before, I really wasn't folowing his ways. I prfessed to be a Christian, but I wasn't fooling anybody or myself. I would admit that openly though.
Once I felt the Holy Spirit was felt, it all made sense, and God spoke to me in my heart and thoughts. The air was fresher, the trees were greener, the whole world looked like a different place, and I to the world too I guess judging by peoples reactions to my newfound look.
It was like God came up behind me, put his hand on my shoulder and said, yes I'm here, now its up to you. I mean I am still the same person inside, but now I know God. I get treated differently because I am a Christian though. It seems all you have to do is mention it, and wham, you get different treatment. Just like the bible says. Even though I did not know the whole bible, I could read it, and totally identify with everything that was being said, I already had it in my heart.
So if I'm nuts, they were nuts too, and everyone for the last 2000 years have fallen pray to an evil trick started by Jesus.
You know what, and this is for you, even if it was fake, which I do not feel it is, it is such an awesome feeling, and so peaceful, so full of Love, so perfect, that I do not want to feel any other way.
This is a wierd way of putting it, but I'm trying to relate it to those who do not know what it feels like. Being close to God does not mean your life gets worse, it should get better. Unless you choose to sacrifice yourself for the Lord and put yourself through certain things.
I find the thought of there being no God now, so lonely and cold. The thought that we are all here by chance, and we have no real meaning or purpose for being here, it doesn't matter if we die or live, it wouldn't make a shread of difference to the Universe, is a dry way to base your life. Where does the insiration come from. What are we trying to prove, and to who? If we have no spirit, then why do we feel sad, why do we get inspired, why do we love (not just our spouses), why do we cry, why would Carl Sagan be afarid of dying and want to live, why want to live if you have no spirit? Does a tree care if it lives or not?
Ecclesiastes 1
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher, [1] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
3 What does man gain from all his labor
at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.
Why why why?
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