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Are there any other Proofs about Christ and other Bible matters other than Bible
gmik:
I just read this thread and am wondering why it stopped?? (yes, I am still playing catch up on the forum from vacation)
Michele and Nancy, that is great advice from Arcturus. Reading and totally digesting BT will probably take a lifetime. Apart from the Bible, it is the best material you can read. Even his e-mails are mini-teachings better than most sermons of Christendom.
In the last couple of years, my emotions and thoughts have been like a roller-coaster ride. High highs and low lows. Why did God do this, why isn't life more like this, why didn't God do it this way, this is too hard, I wish I could go back, this doesn't make any sense, why, why, why........OMG this is so awesome, yes, this is it, this is the truth!, God is so awesome, God knows what He is doing, what a fabulous plan, I can't wait for the All in All....
See what I mean? One thing, well several, staying in the Word, praying to keep "intimacy" w/ God, reading BT, and this forum is helping keep me grounded and at least staying in the middle (not so bi-polar).
For the other "thread" in this thread.
I know a man, who graduated from the University of Michigan grad school as a scientist. Biology/Physics. He became a computer "something" to program the Richard M. Nixon library. This was back in the late 70's. (true story) His wife, my friend, tricked him into coming to a "cool, far-out" prayer meeting. He was stoned at the time (he usually was). Anyway, he got instantly sober at the meeting. And became an instant Christian. (as we knew it then). He would tell us stories about biology and physics-like learning things in one class and going to the next class and hearing the complete opposite. He had a resolute faith that God created the universe, and all in it including all the scientific laws.
Sorry, I got windy.
DWIGHT:
Dear Michele,
Like Gena, I'm catching up on different threads that I missed for the few days that I was away, and don't know why this thread ended.
I think that where you are in the Lord, you have a lot of legitimate questions. Especially living with someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God. The advice given to you about reading all of Rays teachings are good, but unless God reveals it to you, or any of us, it is like reading the newspaper. Remember that there are two billion confessing Christians in the world, and there are only a handful that we know of, who are able to have ears to hear and eyes to see. Your husband is no different than they are when it comes to being blind. When the disciples asked the Lord why He spoke to the multitudes in parables.....
"He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given." Matt. 13:11
Michele, trying to find proof that God or Jesus exist is at best futile. Even the creation, with all its wonders is but a veil to those who do not have eyes to see and ears to hear. How can anyone get faith to believe in God or his Son, because faith and faith alone is the key to open our eyes and our ears.
Romans 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. That's it....the word of God. All of us who were given ears to hear, heard it by the word of God. Not by science or by archeology or anything that you can see, hear or touch physically....it must come by God's revelation and nothing else.
I think this is the hardest lesson for all of us to learn.....
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. I Cor. 2:14
God bless,
Dwight
Johann:
Michele
You will find a lot in Josh McDowell's book: "The New Evidence that demands a verdict"
Take care.
Johann
DWIGHT:
Hi Johann,
Welcome to the forum. You will also find a lot in the book that God wrote: "The Bible."
Dwight
Deborah-Leigh:
I have a copy of Josh McDowell's The New Evidence.
McDowell says quote: " You Can Receive Christ Right Now Through Prayer.........The following is a suggested prayer...."
Then the Sinners Prayer is given and we at Bible Truths KNOW how foolish THAT IS.
Christ chooses us. We can not choose HIM because we are carnal and our minds are at enmity with His Spirit. We rely totally on HIM for our salvation and our election to HIS GRACE and MERCY and FAVOUR.
I have seen many good ideas in the writings of Universalists but all too often these ideas carry error's and heresy. The ONLY writings I have found to be consistent with the Scriptures are right here at Bible Truths via Ray Smith. NOTHING compairs with the purity of the revelations that we have in setting us free from doctrinal errors.
Peace be to you
Arcturus :)
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