Joseph007 said:
HereIStand said:
I'm evangelical, not agnostic. If you find yourself to be agnostic now and your wife is a Christian, keep your beliefs private to the extent that you can. This would be for the sake of your wife and for your honesty. If agnostic, then the God of Christianity could exist and be true to His Word. Your wife might be right. You don't know.
I guess my issue is that every religion is based on believing in that religion's mandates for eternal life.
There isn't any actual proof that any one religion is correct. How does any one know that they are right? Every one that is religious believes whole heartedly that they are correct and their belief system will get them to heaven.
How do you know who is right? You just believe......
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Isaiah 41:20-23
20 so that all may see and know, consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it. 21
?Submit your case,? says the LORD.
Present your arguments,? says Jacob?s King. 22 ?Let them come and tell us what will happen.
Tell us the past events, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome, or
tell us the future. 23
Tell us the coming events,? then we will know that you are gods. Indeed, do something good or bad, then we will be in awe when we see it.
Christianity isn?t based on a
blind faith. The Bible is the only book in human history that repeatedly gives
detailed prophecies that have been fulfilled
literally and continues to be fulfilled
literally centuries in advance. Only a
true God knows what happened at the beginning and can tell what is to come. The Koran, Nostradamus, Buddhism,
nor any other religion has the element of prophecy in them.
Throughout the
Book of Hebrews, the writer is showing the Jews that there is a
better covenant (Heb 8:6) and those who
reject it and go back to Judaism
are not saved. Hebrews 10:1-4 declares that the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins and Hebrews 10:26,27 states that If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remains no more sacrifice. 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:29 states that those who have ?trodden under foot the Son of God? by
rejecting His sacrifice (Heb 10:1-4) and counted the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, has done despite (profaned) the Spirit of grace.
Rejecting Christ insults the Spirit who worked through Him (Matthew 12:31,32).
Hebrews 10:39 implies that there were some Hebrews who
drew back to perdition (destruction) by rejecting the sacrifice of Christ but others
?believed to the saving of the soul.? Very simply,
it is your choice to accept or reject the revelation God has graciously allowed you to receive.
Not believing God is equivalent to calling Him a Liar (1 John 5:10).
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that comes to God
must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
Try establishing any sort of friendship without faith. Walk up to a woman and introduce yourself. When she tells you her name, say, ?I don?t believe you.? Watch her reaction.
When she tells you where she works, say that you don?t believe that either. Carry on like that for a while, and before long you may be nursing a black eye. Your lack of faith in her is a strong insinuation that she is a liar.
If she, a mere mortal, feels insulted by your lack of faith in her word, how much more do unbelievers insult Almighty God by refusing to believe His Word. In doing so, they are saying that God isn?t worth trusting?that He is a liar and a deceiver. (The Evidence Bible)