Children are born believers in God, academic claims

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T_Laurich

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pickles

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I didnt read the link, as my little laptop get all froze up when I open them. :)
Some might think it sounds crazy, but...
But I do believe that we are born with knowladge of God.
I dont and cannot recall any time in my life where I did not know Jesus, God Our Father.
I have memories even, of being in diapers, crying out and asking Jesus why no one was there, as I was really cold and wet.
I remember talking to God telling Him how much I liked eating ants, I was three yrs old. :)
I remember practicing looking at the sun, so I could see God, as I had heard His light was so bright we could not see Him.
I even have a memory, of being surrounded by soft light, red, and knowing sorrow all around me, not me, but all around me.
I have often questioned if I was in the wormb then, but one can only wonder about it.
I mostly remember talking all the time and about all things to Jesus, to God Our Father, mostly because He was always close, and I needed Him so much.

Scripture speaks to God's Spirit being with John the baptist even within the womb, so, I believe we can know Him, its the willing heart , that is the test of faith that we our called to.

In the end though, what matters, is we in faith believe upon Jesus, and recieive salvation, His love.
Wether we begin work in the early hours of the day, or at the end, we all recieive the same wages. :)

God bless
pickles
 
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Romans 1:18-32
God’s Anger at Sin


18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.


21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.


24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.


28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. 29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. 30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. 32 They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.
 
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Men know the truth about God, but they suppress it. That is why God is righteous to condemn unbelief. Unbelief is not a result of a lack of evidence, it is about people intentionally falsifying the presuppositions through which they filter all evidence.
God showed what his soul was like by creating men in his own image. Men can feel emotions, think thoughts, "go places" in their minds - we have souls in the image of His. What more evidence could God give us? Yet natural man postulates, that, given enough time, Molecules will naturally feel, think and imagine. It is not a matter of evidence, it is a matter of intentionally falsified pre-suppositions.

Rom 1:18-23 For b the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools.
 
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