Doctrines like Limited Atonement - why?
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Recognition of the Spirit behind the message. I looked around the world and saw that it was magnificently and lovingly made, and when I heard the gospel I recognized the God I was perceiving. My belief in what the Bible says is not because I have come to it logically, but because I have met the One it has talked about. In fact I struggle to believe much of what's in it on a logical, sensory basis.
2 Corinthians 5
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
You keep asserting that to be the case, but have done nothing to demonstrate it. It's not up to us to disprove your position, especially when you so adamently simply insist on it and ignore counterpoints. Belief and faith is a response to the preaching of the gospel, and the response to the gospel a matter of recognition. I didn't believe before the gospel was preached to me but my lack of belief doesn't make me incapable of recognizing the truth when it is presented.