mrewanThe only answer I can you is faith,read the following and maybe you can understand.There's nothing else I can do or say that can convince you,so again faith,is my first and last answer.Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."Without that title deed [faith] it is impossible to please God. If you do not believe what God has written in His Word, why would God bless you? You would be calling God a liar. To receive the rewards that God has promised in His Word, you have to diligently, or sincerely seek after God. You have to have fixed in your mind that every part and every verse of God's Word is true, even though you don't understand part of it. However what you do understand, you follow in detail. God is telling you that without "faith" in Jesus Christ there is no way to please God. None whatsoever. Even though you are unable to see Him, you have to be able to believe that God exists, and that His Word is true. God created everything, yet today the so called scholarly world treats God as though He just doesn't exist. Put this thought in your mind, say when you went home to your family that you provided for, and your family treated you as if you didn't exist. They wouldn't talk to you, answer you, and used your name as a curse. Would you try to bless them for their treatment of you? of course not. Well God doesn't like it either. "FAITH AND BELIEF"Throughout your life, you have no doubt heard: "Just have faith and believe." But what does that mean? Believe in what? What if you are not sure if you believe or not? I mean, you want to do the right thing, you want to be a "good guy," and you may have even tried to think about believing in God and Jesus, but with all the false churches and religious weirdos around nowadays you were turned off. I can't say that I blame some people for having trouble with their faith, what with all the lies and contradictions we see among the so-called religious institutions of this day. It was satan's plan from the beginning to dilute the truth with an onslaught of lies and heresies till it gets to the point where a person who is newly exposed to Christianity doesn't know what to believe in anymore.It should greatly upset true Christians (righteous indignation) when they see the false and greedy teachers/preachers perverting God's Word for their own benefit. And when I say "true Christians," I don't' mean the phony apostates that are so prevalent now. The reason a true Christian should be upset at them is because that through their lies, false promises, false teachings, and the misrepresentation of God's Word they cause people to turn away from God and cause them to not believe that He even exists. When the lies of the false teachers/preachers fail to come to pass, the people blame God. But God never told them that he would stand behind the empty promises of the rip-off artists that have inundated God's ministries.Perhaps right about now you are saying to yourself: "If this author is trying to get me to believe in God and God's written Word, The Bible, he sure is going about it in a strange way." That would only be true if I believed that man saves man. However I know that it is only God who does the saving, no man has any power or effect over that except that God will it. You would not even be reading this if it weren't God's will that you somehow ended up in front of this particular Bible study. And maybe this Bible study won't do you any good, but maybe it will. God knows.It is my desire that you who perhaps don't believe, would read the facts contained in this study and be caused to begin to search more truth out in God's scriptures, but I realize that our Heavenly Father calls whom He will when He will. And I refuse to candy coat the truth for anyone, I will not lie about my Heavenly Fathers Word. And if I error on any particular point, then I pray His forgiveness, for when one teaches God's Word he becomes responsible for what he says, especially what he says to a beginning Bible student. On judgement day, God begins the judging at those who teach His Word. In other words, it is an awesome responsibility that unfortunately many take oh-so lightly. God doesn't take misleading His precious children lightly! It is prophesied in the Bible that in the end times, of which we are in now, there would be a famine in all the nations and kingdoms (the world) [Mt 24:7, Mk 13:8, Lk21:4], and that famine would not be for a lack of bread and water (food), but that it would be for hearing the true Word of God [Amos 8:11]. Has this not come to pass? I mean, sure, there are a lot of people in this end generation that claim to be coming back to God; but the famine is for hearing the TRUE Word of God, not for hearing empty words about God, there is plenty of that to go around. These days when you tune into television and cable access channels you see a plethora of "religious" programs, but what do the greatest majority have in common? They are empty words by empty people. They are either what is called "prosperity ministries," or they are what amounts to nothing more than a infomercial for some large denomination, and then of course you have the "off the wall" nuts talking in circles. None of these are teaching the True Word of God. There are some good ones mixed in, but they are far and few between. "The "prosperity preachers" teach that if you believe in God and Jesus, then God will reward you financially. They encourage you to "plant seeds of faith" ie: send them money, and God will give you more money in return. They have many catch phrases and even twist scripture to fit their "message." They are thieves and liars, and their followers are greedy and insincere phonies trying to con God. They are not in a Church or Ministry of God, and they most certainly aren't conning God, it is they that are being defrauded by their false teachers/preachers, and they end up losing what little money they did have. Good for them, they deserve no better than poverty for trying to use God and Jesus as a get rich quick scheme. Like Jesus said: "They have their reward." And I assure you, it's not the reward that they have in mind. So where then can one find God's True Word? It is within God's written Word, The Bible. Your Heavenly Father assured that you would have the operating instructions of your soul (The Bible), and that it would be complete and faithful. Of course you must believe the promises and instruction within the Written Word in order to receive them. This present Bible study will endeavor to document the authenticity of God's Written Word and to assure you that the promises of God contained within it, are a promise from your Creator Almighty God directly to you, if you will only but believe. You can read the rest here[url="http://biblestudysite.com/belief.htm]http://biblestudysite.com/belief.htm[/url]Weather you choose to believe or not,do no that one day you will stand before God.I don't need an explanation,but you will have a chance to explain it to Him.