It is a common tactic of non-believers to blame Christians for their lack of belief, but Scripture says they do not believe because they are blinded by the god of this world, that their pride of life and lusts of the flesh govern them, and they threw off knowledge of God in favour of those things. In other words, Satan is their master, and they are incapable of accepting what Christians say because such truths are spiritually discerned. Jesus said, "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil." What has been said to the OP is offensive for that reason, as he calls us delusional because we claim to know something he does not, complaining about our arguments from authority while he holds up this authority and that authority, all of whom argue from ignorance, some claiming nothing can be known, so what is he really trying to tell us, and how does he expect to dissuade those who know by claiming nothing can be known? God wants to be known, Jesus promised He can be known, Scripture attests to this fact. The whole of Scripture points to Jesus Christ and the OP will not even answer a simple question regarding Him. God promised that if we search for Him we will find Him (Deuteronomy 4:29). Who will look for what one believes does not exist in the first place?
Thank you, magenta!
Someone that actually has a brain and isn't afraid to use it.
God bless you very much! ♡
The bible says to love the Lord with all our heart and all our MIND,
which you've shown you do over and over, even in this very thread alone,
but we are obviously dealing with a
deliberately nattering nabob of negativity.
Hey, Krakka, You're not fooling everybody here.
I really don't care if you think I'm self-righteous, or want to use me as an excuse for being anti-christ.
I've given you the gospel enough times, as have many ppl here for quite some time. And I've prayed for you, all without asking a thing in return. You are not interested in the truth and you know it, and your little game stinks.
There's a young lady on this site that has recently received the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior, and is truly seeking her Lord and what being baptised entails.
She has more humility in her little finger than you've got in your whole self, and all your bragging about your intellect isn't helping you any.
You have a very funny opinion on the meaning of self-righteousness, also.
There's really only 2 kinds of righteousness, self and God's.
Since you have yet to receive the righteousness of God which is by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are obviously still seeking to establish a righteousness of your own, but in the end, without Jesus, that's all you'll get, and that's very sad.
I did say in another post, that the way of salvation is still open to you, but I guess you missed that, too.
But I'm not into nice-isms with you anymore.
You've shown no respect for that anyhow, and
I've had enough deception in my lifetime, I don't need yours, too,
and even though the bible says to speak the truth in love, it seems some some christians think that means sweet-talking drivel.
But the truth is, those who are opposed to Christ are speaking sweet-talking lies that might even send ppl to hell if believed, so where's the love in that?!
I nearly fell off my chair when one recent poster said it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, as long as you treat ppl with love.
Now, that person is new here, and I will guess, probably nice and well-intended, but we're people who know that Jesus is the One who claimed to be, (and proved He is), The Truth, so right and wrong are of utmost importance.
Everyone is self-righteous and missing the Truth to some degree
in their life. But then Jesus changed all that. Now, those that are saved are at different stages of growing in His grace and knowledge and conformity to His image. As we often say, we're not yet perfect, we're forgiven.
But we know our Savior loves us and purchased us at the highest cost, His own blood, and by His grace and mercy, He's leading us and will bring us home, Hallelujah! And He gives us different gifts and different levels of faith and ability to use them.
Patience with those who are antagonistic to the Truth, Jesus, and my brothers and sisters in Christ, is not my strong suit.
I don't need to be instructed about God, let alone
empty philosophies of man, by someone who doesn't
believe in Jesus.
We were all unbelievers once, and have been set free
from that sin. We have no need or desire to go back into
the darkness that Jesus gave His life to release us from.
Until you accept that He loved you enough to die for you, too,
you also are still in darkness.
If you honestly want to be set free
and believe in Jesus, I would be happy to be your friend,
and help you, and call you brother in Christ, even,
but until you show a genuine interest in being saved,
you don't come across as a seeker of the truth, but
more like just a blow-hard who's full of hot air.
(There, that's my 'nice' for the day)