Apparently many atheists think Christians are all nuts enough to imagine ourselves a friend. Man, if that were possible, I wouldn’t have gone through my whole life-struggle that I talk about in my testimony (see the about me tab). And let me tell you, don’t think I didn’t try! I only had my brother growing up and we moved a lot. I remember watching things about imaginary friends on television, like how DW had Nadine in Arthur. So I remember one day thinking I would try it. I played with my toys and imagined someone playing with me, but I couldn’t see anyone and it was no fun. No name, figure, face, nothing. It was the same as playing by myself. I knew nobody was there, and I quickly gave up on the idea that same day!
If you pray to a toaster, a statue, or Pikachu, that will have the same effect. No answer. If you pray to God and do it sincerely, He’s the only One who can and will answer. God is loving, but He’s also just. He’s holy and will not allow sin to enter His kingdom (hence the need for Jesus). He created us and His two greatest commandments are to love Him and love our neighbor. Just because He loves us and we love Him does not make Him weak or a pansy. He is an all-powerful mighty God and we’re just like ants. Do you sit there and cry because you accidentally stepped on an ant? God doesn’t have to care about our tiny selves, but He does. Our minds can’t possibly comprehend everything about Him because we’re finite and He’s infinite. Do you know why he flooded the world? Because except for Noah and his family, EVERY human heart was nothing but wicked. The end times will have people and things be “as in the days of Noah,” and modern times only seem to give more credence to the Bible prophecies. It is MAN’S fault that all this sin exists in the world, that’s not the way God created it to be. One day believers will experience a world with no more pain, suffering, tears, death, etcetera. For now, the mess we are in is not God’s fault because He didn’t make everybody make all those bad choices. We have free will and some people do bad things. The slavery in the Bible is actually more like indentured servants, people that worked to pay off a debt. The world would probably have less people that are homeless if people were still allowed to work off their debts in this way. If you’re referring to African American slavery, yes that is terrible but again not God’s fault. If you read the Bible, God says MULTIPLE times to look after the foreigners because the Israelites were once foreigners themselves in the land of Egypt and not to mistreat slaves (for example if one ran away from a bad master, they were to let him escape). Have you ever heard of William Wilberforce? He was a Christian man who spent more than 46 years making speeches year after year until he FINALLY convinced the parliament to abolish slavery and by the time he did that he couldn’t even attend because he was so sick and on his deathbed. That is persistence and God is never absent though some things take time. He felt God told him to do it, though he didn’t see results right away, and in the end succeeded. Moses and the Israelites wandered 40 years in the desert till they finally reached the Promised Land. And do you know why? Because they were still disobedient toward God, otherwise they would have reached the land sooner. Read the Bible to know what it actually says rather than what people say it says. The holocaust is another issue I won’t really get into other than to say that in comparison, the communist governments are responsible for more deaths. Compare the claimed 6 million to more than 180 million and then ask yourself why there’s not more publicity for the latter? Why the focus on this one after all this time? I and others think it actually has a lot to do with Bible prophecy, but if you don’t trust the Bible, I can’t help you much there (yet). God is not imaginary, nor cruel. Why do human beings think they’re so entitled and have the right to demand things from the God that created them? Who are you to tell God what to do and how He should do it? If an ant or spider crawls in your house, do you hesitate to kill it? I try to take spiders or cockroaches outside when I can, but just like many wouldn’t hesitate to spray or step on a “pest,” what makes people think that God would hesitate to “smite” anyone? A human being inherently has more value, but to God we’re still a creature. He made us. You’re like an ant to Him. And yet, he knows each one of us and cries with and for us. Jesus wept for Jerusalem and Lazarus, even when he knew he would resurrect Lazarus moments later. God doesn’t rejoice when a man dies, but wishes everyone to be saved. It’s our choice. Your mom wouldn’t let you come in the house all muddy. You’d have to get hosed off first. Well, God will not let anything unclean enter heaven. Jesus has to cleanse you of all sin first. If you try to wash yourselves, you’ll always “miss a spot.” God was merciful enough to do it for us. Accept the gift. Did you take the time to read over my post on evidence against evolution and for Creation? Or did you completely skip over that? If this is the first you hear about any of these things, then please do go back and read about why Creationism is actually scientific and rational while evolution is not as scientific as you might think and there is actually mounting evidence against the theory. Thanks for reading! Comments are closed.
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