instead of that book? What are you trying to prove? We all know these so called"answers" you post, they're completely unoriginal. If your faith was true, you'd be able to answer like a real person instead of an AI robot programmed with verses--why don't you just admit that you don't understand what you claim to believe in? that when you try to answer from your heart there's nothing there? That you're lost too--New times roman in black on white is a cold dead slip of paper in your hand, providing no real comfort--they're only words, words you can't even make your own--why should we imagine you believe?
2007-04-05 06:34:06 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hi Hayden!
I hope you know by now that I try to live my faith rather than preaching it. I am no expert and there are alot of things I can't even pretend to understand. I do know that I am to love my God with all that I am and love my neighbor with that same strength. I do my best at that and I try to be a Godly light where I am planted.
I will re-read your question though several times to see if I can find any of me in there, because you make an excellent point.
I knew you "felt" special to me for a good reason. Thanks for the thought-provoking lesson!
2007-04-05 14:17:33 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am very certain of my faith.
My faith is in The Almighty, all Loving God of the Universe.
My Faith doesn't come from reading the Bible, I believe the Bible because of my Faith.
Before I invited Jesus into my heart, I never understood the Bible it was like trying to read Chinese. So I very rarely read the Bible.
Now that Jesus is in my life I am able to read and understand the Bible.
The Bible is Holy, it is God breathed, You can't read the Bible with a natural mind, it's Spiritual.
Jesus said He would send the Holy Spirit, who reveals Truth and helps us understand and guides us through our life.
If we quote verses out of the Bible, it's because its Truth.
The Spirit of God leads us to His Word to reveal Truth.
I don't know your beliefs, but I bet you believe it, because you read books or someone taught you and when asked why you believe, you quote stuff out of your books.
The Bible is not a Book you read like any other book, You have to study the Bible with an open heart and mind and ask God to reveal His Word.
I know what it's like to be lost, so I know I have been found.
Jesus Christ changed my life/heart and I will never stop telling people what He has done for me and what I have seen
Him do in other peoples lives.
I can give you brief examples for the reasons of my Faith in my own words.
When I was separated from my Dad because of a hurricane and I didn't know where he was, if he was dead or alive for 6 months and I prayed to God because I couldn't understand why He would allow loved ones to be separated , and I needed to know that my Dad was OK.
A week later my Dad showed up at the church where we were staying as a shelter, and we were in a different city.
That's my Faith.
When you're on a mission trip in Mexico and you see over 500 people get fed, and you know you only have enough food for about 200, and you see the last person get a plate of food and you still have food left over.
That's my Faith.
Read Matthew 14:13-21 Jesus feed the Five Thousand.
Whether you believe or not, that's up to you, but don't ever say we don't have proof of our Faith.
I have seen and heard what my Lord is able to do.
That's My Faith
2007-04-05 07:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by Spoken4 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is power in the Word of God to convert the soul. It is Divine seed. A pebble planted will not an oak yield, but an acorn will. They are only words, but they are God's words; the same words that created the physical universe. It was not the big bang, but the little articulation. Of course, if an acorn is 'planted' on a cement slab, it will be squirreled away and never take root. Likewise a hard heart cannot begin to perceive or receive the Word of God. So we prefer to scatter acorns rather than pebbles.
2007-04-05 06:51:19 · answer #3 · answered by Frak 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hey, you are only telling me about yourself, and not too much about anyone else. If I as a Christian could only tell you things not out of the Bible, then how would you know that you were going to get a straight answer that was scritpural. I don't do either one all the time.
A Christian claims that the Bible is the source. . . . have you not been to class much? Don't you know that the source of an idea or concept is what keeps us from total idiocy? That is; deriving all thought and fact from ourselves? Those verses are there to compare to what it is that we are saying; it's not us making this stuff up, it's here in the Bible. It's what is supposed to be God's word to humans.
2007-04-05 06:52:26 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith is not about understanding, it's just about believing. And about the AI robot, it sounds like a scene from THX1138. Interesting.
2007-04-05 07:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by Luis Pachon 007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a former athiest I understand your frustration. To an athiest, somebody quoting the Bible isn't any distinctive than somebody quoting Moby Dick. To the athiest, the Bible is merely yet another e book between many written by ability of guy, so which you will likely no longer share the enlightenment which you have have been given been envisioned to journey while quoted scriptures any further than you're able to while quoted the different textual content cloth from historic history. one element being athiest did deliver me is information of the athiest approach. i attempt to chat in words and theory-methods that the non-believer can understand and contemplate for themselves, besides as believers. while talking of God, or possibilities previous our information, it is totally out-of-the-container. In my experince, quoting scripture to a non-believer will easily halt any extra dialogue on possibilities.
2016-11-07 07:17:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of the problem is they think since you are asking you are asking for proof.
I believe is enough for me,
some people feel by quoting the bible it will help you by
saving you. However if you totally hate faith then it is a mostly wasted effort. See you are asking questions about something you nothing about and are likely getting answers from people who truely want to help you.
But however by mocking faith and God you are making the faithful mad as hell at you. You are doing yourself and others a complete dis-service.
God Bless,
althought I know it means nothing to you.
2007-04-05 07:05:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only good thing a Bible is for is beating someone over the head with it a few times. As I see by the lecturing bible thumpers answers here, I think they may need a whack or two.
2007-04-05 09:17:16 · answer #8 · answered by Lynnemarie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, once and for all. To be a christian is to believe that the bible is the word of God. And speaking from my own heart and mind, I have felt the comfort of God apart from the Bible. I have also been in despair and God has guided me to the exact words in His bible that gave me all the comfort I needed. In other words, what good would a God be who couldn't or wouldn't communicate with His people. Why don't you admit that faith is something that you don't understand but feel compelled to judge? Perhaps it is the conviction of your own sin that breeds your hostility and insensitivity?
2007-04-05 06:40:10 · answer #9 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I had a personal encounter with Christ and a relationship with him ever since. I am absolutely certain of my faith and the one who gave it. I am not a mindless robot, I have a very high IQ and can reason out his word as well as read it.
2007-04-05 06:43:28 · answer #10 · answered by lix 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋