-When in doubt, read the Bible (if it's not clear, i mean that when we you doubt that God even exists...turn to the Bible. It's amazing, what He reveals to you.) Many people who try to disprove the Bible end up, finding God...in the End. Cuse they really "look" in to it, and openly study it with a passion. It's miraculous when God chooses to open up to people.
That's why i realized that the less I read God's word, the more doubts I had about Him. Because I believe the reason is, that each day, im being influenced by the world more and moree...and if i don't keep up with God, then eventually, there won't be much left...of that relationship, that brings me closer to Him (a.k.a. believing Him, which may relate to me having doubts about Him).
- Another topic was, "Why don't non-christians usually NOT have the urge to submit to God"
My thoughts/explanations were:
- People don't like the feeling of being "controlled" (There's a word people use to describe it, but it's not very...appropriate, well it starts with a "b"). THEY wanna be in control, obviously (they have a word to describe it, but it's not nice). It feels like, there's no freedom, there are restrictions and boundaries. But what they do NOT know, is that real freedom is found through Christ. Mhmmm.
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I wonder if your queston about those who do not know Jesus struggles to obey God is because they do not know God? And when you talked about freedom maybe it is the inability to know that freedom is not the "freedom from" but it is the idea of "freedom to." The world that we are living in causes us to desire for a freedom from the things that are "oppressing us" or freedom from doing something. Freedom becomes of a state of limitless opportunities for one to fulfill one's desires. But if this desire reside only for the gratifications of the oneself then the very freeom that one sets for oneself may become something that oppresses because if that "freedom thing" becomes something that no longer serve the gratification of oneself then it oppresses the person to have to do it eventhough when it originally was "free." However I believe when we are looking at freedom in Christ; the focus is that is a free to live. This is the freedom that we have so that we no longer are bounded in sin and have the freedom to live for the purpose God has created us for :)
Consider Galatians 5: 13-15
13You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. 14The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." 15If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
Whoa, Bern! Hi...
cool. Thanks.
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