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My faith came after my heart was broken. It was broken because of the plight of people everywhere, even though I personally has experienced heartbreak and oppression much of my life, instead of liiking at my own plight I looked at that of others.
Feeling destitute of hope, I locked myself in a room, I shook my fistto the heavens and said, "You are Who you are. If you are good and there is a good outcome to all of this, I want to know you and maybe even serve you. But if you are not, destroy me now for I am better than You are." I was determined not to eat or leave this room until I had a response.
I fell into a deep sleep. A dream was given me which answered my petition in part.
The following morning when I awoke, nothing seemed quite as it had been before, nothing seemed truly real. A car going down the street seemed foreign to my comprehension, yet I knewwhat it was.
Crossing the Quad at my university, I was talking to the One who anwered my prayer in the ight previous. I was saying in my heart "Man is evil. Man is awful. Man is wicked. Waita a minute, I am a man too, YOU are IT, You are ll." Suddenly everything turned to light and that light entered into me. I was led, quite literally, to an opened Bible in the back of an on campus coffe shop. It was bound in light blue, so I had no clue as to what it was. I picked it up, and I began to read , adn I found myself saying that is true, tat is right, wow, that is fantastic. I looked to the top of the page, it was a wring named Isaiah. It was teh Old Testament.
From that moment I could not put it down. I read Isaiah, then I read Revelation followed by all the rest of the Old and New Testaments, and as I read i realized it was only confirming what the Holy Spirit entering me had already taught me. Other tudents would come up to me in the Union and ask mea bout what I had jsut read. I found a card with what I had just read and highlighted in teh bathroom tucked into the frame of the mirror.. The gift of knowledge came to me on many occasions when sharingt the Word with others..
I continued reading the Word, quitting my classes two months before my graduation. Three of the years previous I had been on the DÇeans List, so my academic achievement was not wanting. I went to the Rocky Mountains and camped out all the summer and two more insucing jsut to keep reading the Bible. Noting in it about Salvation was truly new to me because when the Holy Spirit entered me on campus I understood the message that everything is going to be just fine.
God is not proveable, except perhaps in the sense that if we trace what science knows back we come to a place where it seems there must have been "something" that cause that origen..... I can tell yo without any compunction that no man can prove anything about Elohim, for He and His ways are not the ways of me.
Psa 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Its all good Brother this thread is probably not your cup of tea, Faith is believing not only the physical bible speaks but that God the spiritual bible speaks to people who are scientist as well. I know that some may think it's from the devil these post of things though others here at CC that see it as a God to the cognitive human intellectual that endeavors to know knowledge of creation.
To say the exsistence of God cannot be proven or approached empirically(observed) would discredit faith to begin with. Did your faith come about by just knowing the bible teachings? or did your faith come about by a life experience with God that isn't written in the bible? If the answer is both than I'd say each person can have that same experience in different ways just because the experience or knowledge one has gain doesn't mean that same experience and knowledge applys to all.
