Jesus said if someone does not believe the word of God,they will not believe even if someone rose from the dead and told them.
If someone does not want to believe,they will not believe,and you cannot persuade them no matter what you tell them.
But some people are not to that point yet.
You cannot always reach out to people by saying Jesus loves them,for some people do not respond to that.
Sometimes you have to go about it a different way.
You have to show them that the word of God is the truth,and then they will accept Jesus.
Prophesy is a good way to show them that the word of God is truth,for only a God would know the whole history of mankind.
21Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion(Isaiah 41:21-29).
God told us the whole history of mankind,and said no other man or religion would be able to do so,proving that He is the one true God.
17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them(Romans 1:17-32).
God said creation testifies that there is a God.
In the Bible it tells us of all the world powers that would be from Egypt,until the antichrist.
They knew the earth was round.
They knew about jets.
They knew about cars.
They knew that children would be rebellious in the last generation,unlike any other time before.
They knew Israel would become a nation again after they were dispersed into the nations.
And many other things they knew before they happened.
You have to show someone the word of God is true,and when they know the word of God is true,then they will accept Jesus.
Some people may not believe that creation testifies that there is a God,but some might,but they cannot deny prophesy,which only a God could tell us the whole history of mankind before it happened.
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