God loves and God loves to prove Himself
I love that I was made by, am loved by and am guided by a God that does not ask me to take Him on blind faith. Faith is not belief in the existence of God despite the absence of proof. There is plenty of proof. Proof is not the problem. Faith in God is not just believing that He exists, it is believing that He exists and that He loves us and is worth turning our lives over to. And He gives us back our lives, but better, whole, complete, satisfying and meaningful beyond the bounds of our immediate mortality, which is time.
God loves empirical proof and hard facts.
But faith is not the result of facts, it is the result of reason. We perceive facts and are naturally inclined to process them (even if that process says to us that the facts aren't worth processing, which is a powerful statement of processing in itself), or reason through what we have observed and that is clearly represented every time someone is saved by professing that Jesus is their Lord and Savior.
For the first step of salvation is conviction, the irrefutable, empirical fact that we are in total, complete, desperate need for a savior.
When confronted with the unsatisfying, terrible truth about myself, I chose, through reason, to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
But, as a Christian, I am no longer living as one guilty and condemned. I am now righteous and clean, justified to be in close relationship with a God that did not ask me to believing blindly, but proved Himself to me, even though He did not have to. He wanted to, because He loves me.
Romans 1:18-20
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
and some of my favorite verses...(from the mouth of Jesus)
John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God is in the business of saving, and desires that all be saved, but that doesn't mean that all will be saved. But anyone can be saved if they would believe and follow Him!
God loves empirical proof and hard facts.
But faith is not the result of facts, it is the result of reason. We perceive facts and are naturally inclined to process them (even if that process says to us that the facts aren't worth processing, which is a powerful statement of processing in itself), or reason through what we have observed and that is clearly represented every time someone is saved by professing that Jesus is their Lord and Savior.
For the first step of salvation is conviction, the irrefutable, empirical fact that we are in total, complete, desperate need for a savior.
When confronted with the unsatisfying, terrible truth about myself, I chose, through reason, to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
But, as a Christian, I am no longer living as one guilty and condemned. I am now righteous and clean, justified to be in close relationship with a God that did not ask me to believing blindly, but proved Himself to me, even though He did not have to. He wanted to, because He loves me.
Romans 1:18-20
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
and some of my favorite verses...(from the mouth of Jesus)
John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God is in the business of saving, and desires that all be saved, but that doesn't mean that all will be saved. But anyone can be saved if they would believe and follow Him!
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