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All people are accountable to God whether they have “heard about Him” or not. The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature (Romans 1:20) and in the hearts of people (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

Deuteronomy 4:29 proclaims, “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.” This verse teaches an important principle: everyone who truly seeks after God will find Him. If a person truly desires to know God, God will make Himself known.

Do these verses mean that God will reveal himself to those who are truly seeking him in the person of Jesus Christ?

2007-05-25 07:44:51 · 16 answers · asked by Freedom 7 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Schneb
If which "religion" that we associate with has nothing to do with God's judgement then what does the following verse mean?
Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

2007-05-25 09:21:25 · update #1

16 answers

This verse is speaking about those who have ears to hear-- those who do seek the Lord, who are being drawn to Him.
For Jesus tells us that those who do call upon the name of the Lord are those whom the Lord has already given Him!
God reveals Himself to those who seek For him, who look with all their heart! YES! This is glorious news isn't it?

"Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know" Jeremiah 33:3

2007-05-25 08:49:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 0 0

God will send someone to anyone who is seeking the truth about eternal life, and salvation through Christ. But while there are those who are seeking out Christ, satan is doing everything he can to keep that person from being led to Jesus through the countless lies and different stories of confusion that are in this world today, designed for the sole purpose of keeping the sincere Christ seeker from ever taking that final leap of faith, and accepting Jesus as their personal Savior on their faith alone.

Those who listen to what God is telling their heart and trusting in Him, will be led straight into the awaiting arms of Jesus. We must continue to pray daily, that all who seek God's truth and want to secure their eternal future with Jesus, that no weapons formed against them prosper. Prayer is far more powerful than any trick or lie satan can ever come up with. Praise the Lord!

2007-05-25 07:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hello Kait, the whole Bible is filled with exhortations to believers to keep them in the faith and persevering. The Deuteronomy verse was to the Israelites, supposedly a covenanted people of God, who did not listen to his commandments and were a stubborn and stiffnecked people at times. I don't see these verses as God revealing himself to unbelievers who through their own sinful nature do not seek him. He is revealing himself to those who are believers, but these people should know better that he is Lord and they are to walk in his ways, called out from the rest of the world as a separate people.

Yes, God will reveal himself to believers that seek his face as David did in the Psalms. This is called sanctification. But He has no reason to reveal himself except for superficial evidence and a general call to those who will not believe.

2007-05-25 08:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0 0

Those who are so concerned with "what about those who haven't heard" start with a skewed view of God. They assume that
1) God is unable to reveal Himself without man doing it for Him.
2) God will be unjust during the judgment day.
3) God sets unfair expectations.

The scriptures you cite in your details prove that #1 is an incorrect assumption.

Those who assume the above have come to their own conclusions about God--not based on truth. They are not speaking about the living God revealed in scripture, but rather an idol crafted out of their own politically correct imaginations. We see the correct view of God as stated by Abraham in Genesis 18:25...

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

God will not judge us by which religion we associate with, nor what church we attend. God will judge according to the individual heart, and that heart will be judged by the measure of how much revelation was imparted to them.

If you do not believe the Bible, you have no argument because, according to your own philosophy, there is no god, no heaven, no hell, and no impending judgment. To argue would be just being contentious. However, if you DO believe the Bible, then you can also take the following as a promise.

Psalm 19:9
The judgments of YHWH are true and righteous altogether.

2007-05-25 07:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I don't know. The verses point to God, but I don't know about Jesus. After all, the verse in Romans says "all of creation speaks of the existence of GOD, that no man has excuse". The gospel is something different, do you agree? That God's son, Jesus died on a cross for our sins, rose again. I do not know how God will judge people who have never, ever heard the gospel or have any notion of who Jesus is.

I do believe that God is perfect in all His ways, including justice.

2007-05-25 07:48:17 · answer #5 · answered by Esther 7 · 0 0

i do not believe of that an experiential phenomena, like the feeling of indwelling presence of God, is sufficient to unavoidably instruct any non secular perception-- and that i do not reject God. All non secular reports, even if Christianity or different, are followed with the help of emotional reports, and yet that does no longer propose that each and each unmarried faith is valid. And the reason behind questioning the earth is 4.5 billion years previous is not in basic terms depending off of a few lone scientist's words, or perhaps the know a set of scientists who percentage some type of atheistic, anti-god time table, yet for fairly some motives.

2016-11-27 03:01:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Yes, indeed they do!
Newly discovered tribes seek to worship or appease a "supreme Being", who the Bible says is God.

Finding God, tho starts by admitting failure and guilt. God who fashioned our conscience, speaks to us through the Bible more clearly than a satellite transmits to a television set. His message is that we need His pardon and cleansing.

Conscience overcomes excuses for not believing God. An atheist, who rejected the Ten Commandments, turned to Christ because his conscience troubled him for having broken them. God disturbs our conscience. But guilty conscience is not enough: to be forgiven, a person must turn to Jesus Christ, through personal repentance and trust.

2007-05-25 08:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I believe there is merit for this position, since even "His eternal Godhead" is revealed in creation. Since there is salvation in none other than Christ, is it not reasonable that God would find a way to reveal Him, even if it's not by name?

Some former Muslims have reported a visitation by Christ when praying to Him (Muslims allegedly do this as part of the 5th prayer of the day) and it resulted in their conversion.

While I find this a bit suspicious, I have no reasonable grounds for dismissing it.

Tom

2007-05-25 07:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Those who truly seek God, I believe will find Him. But sometimes, we claim to be seeking God, but we are not totally pure. We actually seek our own personal gain. As long as our motives are pure, and it is truly God Whom we seek, then I believe we will find Him. That's why the verse says "with all your heart and with all your soul." You cannot expect to find Him fully, if you are not seeking with your whole heart and soul; if you are seeking Him only partly, while part of you still just seeks self-satisfaction.

2007-05-25 07:50:22 · answer #9 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 0 0

seek Him while He may be found yes,but none can go to the Father unless He pulls them God knows our hearts and when we are looking for Him in honest and truth then He will reveal Himself to them

2007-05-25 07:51:00 · answer #10 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 0 0

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