why I believe...

[Christina]

God has a plan to save all his children that choose him.But to accomplish this the human being has to be shown that he can not do it on his own. There fore we are allowed to create our own problems and attempt to fix or ignore them. God expects us to be men /women of good faith and it is faith you seem to lack.Faith - The ability to believe what you can not seeAdam and Eve could see God when they called him did it save them? God knows the human mind and we would never be happy if we felt we were just all cared for sheep. Therefore we must learn what it is we do want and do not want the best way to learn this is the way you teach children, Have you ever been a parent? Would you not teach that there are consequences for their actions.God gets no joy from the way the world is,it breaks his heart. But as a parent I can tell you the hardest thing to do is sit back and watch while your child make mistakes, but it is how they learn. You can tell a child 100 times not to touch the fire but he will never learn till he gets burnt. It is the same with God. He lets us touch the fire. not because he doesn't care, but because he does.Better to let us touch the fire while he watches over us then to leave us unattended.It seems to me you are not going to find your path till you stop questioning the existence of God. You wont give him the one thing he asks for Believe upon me,and give me your love.Yet want him to make all things right in your eye's. is that not an arrogant request? God didn't make the world this way we did. And he has full intentions of putting an end to it but in his time for his reasons,for his plan just like any good parent. This will be when he deems its best for ALL his children.

 

[betchevy]

I am appreciative of your openess and answering this for me, as I asked. I am touched by your seeking for knowledge of God. I think God does know your thoughts and is in the process of answering your prayer, whether you have even thought you were in prayer... Abraham began his relationship with God in the very same way you have, by rejecting the gods of his father.Nebuchanezzer was a man who was not a believer in the God of Abraham and Moshse when we first learned of him. But the Bible says God used him to scourge His people.... why would he use this man? Nebuchannezzer's very name mean one who seeks knowledge...He came to know the living God and even wrote a chapter in the book on Daniel.Your premises are interesting and I would like to discuss those I do believe you are on track with 1, 2, 3, and 4, but fall short from there on...because God make the universe milllions of years ago with laws, rules and those must be followed even by Him. That is why God cannot answer prayer imediately... God created beings ,souls He loved. They rebelled...God love them and did not want to destroy them...he stopped everything and renewed the earth and put these souls into flesh to try to redeem them to give them all a chance to repent. The rules still must be followed.6 and 7 are also true, but your premises as to immediacy are not... this age must be played out to the end all souls must have a chance and so this earth age must continue until its is done. Then begins even more of living in this time of decisions...the millenial age is 1000 years of teaching, learning and at the end trying and God will destroy evil once and for all...when evil has performed the service God needs him to perform ...the final testing of the souls who have had every chance available to truly know God and the rules...then after the test...all who fail will finally be destroyed. God does not want to destoy any... He loves us all so much... outside this flesh we are so wonderously beautiful...I again am thankful to you for bring truly open...I hope you don't feel I am being sanctimonious in my reply... I too rejected the gods of my fathers and like you searched...God gave me a wonderful gift.....A desert with only Him to rely on....I didn't realize the wonderful nature of the gift at first, but looking back... I see His love all over it...I will be praying you also find Him and the knowledge you seek .....