Anna Diehl #fundie 924jeremiah.wordpress.com

Consider this: people are told that God says that if we seek Him with all their hearts, we will find Him. So if you’re searching for Him, and you want to find Him, isn’t it possible that your mind will simply imagine that you’ve found Him? If we humans are so capable of deceiving ourselves, how can we tell the real God from our own wishful thinking? Wouldn’t it be more logical to try and search for God without expectations or faith as a safeguard against self-deception? Isn’t the whole idea of having to have faith to please God a bit of a set up? These are the questions we will address in this post.Certainly there is a very real principle that we can find evidence for anything that we want to believe, and it’s important to think seriously about this issue. All we have to do is look around the world and we’ll find scores of people who are all convinced that their religion is right, even though those religions all conflict with each other. And then within the Christian Church, you will find scores of Christians who adamantly disagree about various attributes of God. Is He really all-powerful or can His will be thwarted by His own creations? Is He the One inflicting pain on us or is He always looking away while some other party has their way with us? Some Christians say God is incapable of lying, others say He lies a lot. Most Christians say that Yahweh (God the Father), Jesus & the Holy Spirit are three expressions of a single Deity (the three-in-one Trinity theory). On this site, we teach that They are three separate Deities and that the Trinity theory is a bunch of baloney. Much of what we teach on this site counters the teaching of the mainstream Christian Church, and with so many Christian denominations bickering with each other, clearly Christians are rather confused about who their own God is.

So where does this leave you? You certainly don’t want to put your faith in a delusion. And you don’t want to believe in some warped version of God because you’re listening to folks who are in denial about certain aspects of Him. You want to know God as He really is, or forget it. Delusions take us nowhere. To pray to a God who isn’t really there is a complete waste of time. To try to serve Someone who only exists in your mind is ridiculous.

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