🇺🇸 The TRUTH is no longer hidden, people are hiding from the truth. 🇺🇸
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Thanks for the story. I think you are likely more helpful than the pastors i've talked to because this is more than theology, its righteousness, historical, political and more.
Your experience jives with what the best christian suggestions to my experience is- that it is about open mindedness and acceptance, not logic.
I could say that these experiences you had can easily be explained by confirmation bias, desperation, random circumstance, or placebo effects. But then again an actual divine experience would be a purely personal experience that would have the appearance of being non provable. And that the non provable nature means only the very open people will discover it.
I still have many logistical problems with religions, but I will explore my feelings and consider being open to him. What do I have to lose?
I thought the exact same thing you do. It's confirmation bias. However, I honestly had NO IDEA that what happened to me was a thing. I wasn't in church. I wasn't coached by anyone trying to convert me. I had to research after the fact and found out what happened to me is very common. Which astonished me even more.
The best way I can answer your question is there can be no love without free will. Take away our free will, and we are nothing but robots. God doesn't want us to be robots. However, with that free will comes evil. Man is allowed to commit sin because of the free will that God has given us. God also exists outside of time and space. What we see as a linear timeline isn't what God sees. So it does not matter if we give our life to Christ when we are 18 or on our death beds when we are 90. Also, when you are truly saved you desire NOT to sin. We will always be sinners to a degree and there is nothing we can do to stop it. It's human nature. It's a lifetime struggle to be better people. So, while I don't believe that a truly saved person is going to commit truly evil acts like cold-blooded murder or rape of a child. They may struggle with substance or porn addiction. None of us are worthy of being saved. But Jesus Christ saved us anyways.
I appreciate the input.