I never understood this type of thinking.
God is not obligated to reveal all of His ways to us. We are finite, human beings......created by God in His image and for His good pleasure.
There are some things that have to be left up to mystery in Scripture......why can you not accept that truth?
2007-09-25 01:14:34 · 36 answers · asked by primoa1970 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The evidence for God is all around us in His creation. I'm not blindly accepting anything. It's been proven to me and to millions of other born again Christians
2007-09-25 01:30:02 · update #1
This is why they cannot accept the things of God:
1 Corinthians 2:14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
-God tells us that those who do not know Him are not OF Him.
It is only up to God to OPEN their eyes. And we who believe need to always have a defense, to always be prepared in sharing the gospel with them. But if they want to turn it into fruitless controversary, we need to end it. It is only up to God after that to open their eyes and soften their hearts through His Spirit. -- To take the veil off!
Most people want "logic" and they want man's logic. They do not understand because what they read does not seem logical to them. But what does Isaiah 55 say? God says His ways are not our ways nor His thoughts our thoughts. God is ABOVE us! He IS JUST. He IS FAIR! Man does not see it that way, because their heart is closed to His message and to His understanding. And it is only through hearing the word of God that faith can grow ( Romans 10:17)
And it is only by the drawing of the Holy Spirit that one can come to God-- they cannot come on their own ( Romans 3:10 and John 6:44)
Just goes to show the power of God even more in a persons life when they DO repent and believe in Christ! Because we know it is ALL God, and none of them!
To those who do believe in the Lord Jesus Christ:
John 14:17
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
2007-09-25 05:43:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
We don't really require an explanation for everything. We can accept not knowing everything. It's made up explanations that bug us (many of us at least).
When there is something that we can't explain, we search for possible explanations through research, experiments etc. If we can't find explanations, we just accept it that we don't know and keep trying.
What religious people do when they can't explain something is think "God did it!". We just don't assume that.
We don't assume that there is some sort of a god out there doing all those things we don't understand. You may feel like you have enough evidence to be sure that there is a God. We feel differently about it and won't believe it till we see it.
2007-09-25 03:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the reason for the universe is a random vacuum fluctuation interior the singularity. the reason for the singularity might have been an excellent fall down. The universe did no longer precisely "initiate". it rather is purely an journey. A play starts off while the curtain rises, besides the shown fact that it would not recommend there wasn't some thing there until eventually now that 2nd. The omniverse became present until eventually now the super Bang. The omniverse does no longer have a commencing up, as a result it has no reason. It has existed for eternity. this is achieveable that it will at last run out of steam. So, whether it rather is existed for an eternity it would not recommend it rather is going to final for eternity. besides the shown fact that, you may choose to anticipate that it could have had adequate time to expire of steam, yet it rather is for sure no longer actual. we are right here. So, in case you choose to anticipate it rather is going to at last run out of steam, ok.
2016-10-05 08:02:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Primo, you ask why can't one accept the truth, but they can't because they don't know the truth. It is only by explaination that they can become believers. It is good that the non-believer requires explainations, I would hope that it leads them to being a believer. You are right in that God isn't obligated to reveal His ways to us, but I believe He does reveal to the non believers to get them to search. It is only by searching that they will learn the truth.
2007-09-25 13:24:14 · answer #4 · answered by Angelica1951 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some are true seekers after God and are wanting answers to help them find the peace and joy that a life serving Him can bring. Others are being intentionally provocative to start an argument or just asking inane questions to stir things up. Both groups need prayers that God will open their hearts so they may come to believe and accept Christ.
2007-09-25 02:29:54 · answer #5 · answered by Country girl 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It takes a small mind not to want to understand everything around you. Consider that you may think that you're absolutely correct in your beliefs, but that not so long ago people were 100% certain that the sun orbited the earth. Today, most American are 100% certain that Paul Revere made the midnight ride shouting "the British are coming".
These are just a two examples of why one would not just "accept the truth".
Or you could put it in your terms: God created us this way, ask him.
2007-09-25 01:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Personally, I actually kind of admire faith in others. Where I'm coming from as someone who is chronically undecided (and to be honest not too concerned about it) is in order to accept one ideology would be to deny another. If I'm going to throw my hand into any of those circles I would only do it if it really spoke to me. A huge part of faith is being honest with yourself and sheerly having the ability to believe. I think a large portion of people who do not subscribe to a faith, be they athiest or undecided, need answers to produce faith. Something concrete to separate one idea from another.
2007-09-25 03:53:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Primo, the unbeliever evaluates the world by finite information, not by godly perception (i.e. spiritual eyes). Everything is either black or white; there is no such thing as gray (this is an interesting position, given their contradictory belief that "moral absolutes" don't exist!) So to them, our inability to explain certain mysteries of God sounds like evasiveness.
2007-09-25 01:59:53 · answer #8 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
i think b/c they are blind to spiritual truths. Not having had their eyes opened to things of God they regard them as foolishness.
It will be fun to have things opened up more and more; mystries revealed more and more as eternity presses on in the New Earth, eh?
Don't worry, be happy, it's all going to be WORTH it!
2007-09-25 05:23:42 · answer #9 · answered by karen i 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh-huh.
So who's truth are we accepting blindly? Krishna? Buddha? (Oh, wait, he encourages independent thought and questioning, never mind.) Zeus?
You see the problem. All theists claim truth. None of them have any more proof than another, and are insulted when we don't accept THEIR claim to truth and ignore everyone else's. Pure ego, my friend.
Edit: Sure, it's been proven to you and is obvious. And Hindus have had their gods proven to them and they find them to be obvious... I'm sure you see where I'm going. We have no more faith in you than we do in them in the absense of concrete evidence. Taking one theists' word over anothers' is just silly.
2007-09-25 01:25:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋