I understand what you are saying, and I really think it’s comes down to this. It couldn’t be more simple.

[36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.
[39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.




Yes there are lots of factors and variables, but at the end of the day that’s what it boils down to. But loving doesn’t mean “giving someone whatever they want or always helping them accomplish their goals or whatever else may seem like the “nice” thing to do.” I look at this existence as something similar to a school where we are tasked with making the world better even though we are free to completely disregard our task if we choose. The more we help others and attempt to bring a piece of heaven to Earth and increase our capacity for love the more our spiritual essence will advance. The more suffering we cause the more we’ll have to answer for and the more we’ll regress. The concepts are much deeper than that and we could spend years going over it but that’s a decent start for someone posting this on a busy Monday morning.

This is a value judgment. If you don't think there is any value in talking to the other side who am I to argue?

It's not objectively true. It's something that you determine.

These commandments can only bring good things to yourself and those around you, thank you for sharing them.

God said that we are the caretakers of the Earth, but we are also flawed. We will always be flawed, and not all people know love as they live upon the Earth.

However, one day His kingdom will be built upon this Earth and all will witness Him in His glory. He commands us to love one another, to heal the world.

We may obey him, some may disobey, but all will go to Him when our time comes.I was once an atheist, and I was disillusioned with the church as it had become corrupted by greed and people who speak a false message without love for their own gain.

I was blind, but now I see. Many small things over time have led me here, and at the end I had a profound realization that God is love, and I prayed and witnessed God myself.

I have seen others fall from faith or find it in their lifetimes, people are always changing, but our ego gets in the way of reconsidering our view.

An atheist may not have the same solid foundation, maybe it's something they read in a book or an argument that convinced them, maybe it's how they were raised.

There is no harm that will come to your life in finding faith, it will only perfect you and give you the strength of God.

You see, not even you are so resolute and firm in your perspective, the truth is that people do lose faith or find it when they did not have it. It happens all the time.

All I want is to spread God's love into the hearts of all. I know what it can do, I know how it can lift someone out of a dark and confusing pit of uncertainty.

God is my rock, my foundation. There is no doubt, there is no second guessing. I can feel His love and know it, my faith cannot waiver.

He is love, you may just call Him love as you know it. If you do not know love, then know that I love you and God loves you.

I will pray now and ask Him to guide you towards a perfect love.

If you know love, you know God. That's all there is to it.

Not all know love, and not all know that God is love.

The unloved wander, never quite feeling fulfilled, seeking and searching for something to replace it.

The loved are in peace, a peace that cuts to the very center of your being. The love casts out all fear, doubt, and hate.

Do you know what love is? Do you know what it feels like?

You did not answer, so I will assume that you do not know what love is.

Is this true?

nice that you found god now shut the **** up about it you dumb cringe lord.

people like you are so full of yourselves.

I know you read it, I know that you are too afraid to answer truthfully, otherwise you would simply lie.

Open your heart to love, let it overwhelm you.I love you, and who I am is nothing compared to God.

I will pray now that God will protect you and bring blessings into your life.

Now you read it, but you still can't answer, your logic is not consistent.

There is no need to lie, if you did not care you would not respond.

I love you, God loves you, and I can feel Him working through you now.

Do you know what love is? Do you have the courage to answer such a simple question?

Or are you afraid of love? Are you afraid of its power?

If you can read and respond, you can answer these questions.

If you do not have the courage to answer, I will pray now and ask God to give you the courage to search your heart and find the truth within on your own.

Your façade of apathy is easy to see through, because you continue to respond.

I can tell that you are simply searching for love, I can only do so much, but God's love will overwhelm your heart and deliver you towards peace.

He is waiting in your heart, He is all things, but you have made your heart hard like stone and closed it off to love. He is knocking now at the door of your heart, and you simply have to answer.

I know you are reading this. If you want to see the real truth now, the final truth, if you seek enlightenment and love, then pray to Him now and ask Him to enter your heart.

If you pray sincerely, from the depths of your heart, you will feel His love immediately and it will transform you.

Nah.

Hopefully if I created a thread titled "Darth Vader is real", saying within "I spoke to Darth Vader last night", no one would believe this either. No reason to believe in claims without evidence.

I love you

Ask again for help and I will deliver more loveThe evidence is love, God is love.

Unfortunately, not all know love, and not all are willing to allow love into their heart.

If you know love, you know God. If you have felt love, you have felt God.

You can play semantic games all you want and define words like God to mean whatever, but then what are we even talking about.

If you are equating God with love, then what we are talking about here isn’t some specific entity, out of the Bible say, but rather just adding a second and unnecessary term to something people already know about and merely call “love”. May as well have just have titled the thread “Love is real”. Nothing to do with specific claims in the Bible: i.e. a mysterious being who created the universe in 6 days, and interacted in specific ways with people in the near East some few millennia ago.

I can similarly say: the evidence for darth vader is evil. Darth Vader is evil- that’s what he is. He is all around us. We see human evil, we see naturalistic evils- this is all Darth Vader. Thus Darth Vader is real and also I spoke to him last night.

It is in the Bible, these words are a big part of what brought me to God:It's not my words, it's the words of Jesus Christ.

Love is real, and it seems like maybe you believe in love or have experienced it before.

I'm telling you bro, if you close your eyes and pray to God, from the sincere depths of your heart, and you ask Him to let His love into your heart, it will completely overwhelm you and you will witness Him for yourself.

Nothing compares, it is profound enlightenment. You access a supreme love, you witness and experience all things at once, I say this as a Christian who once left the faith due to these sorts of arguments.

I was young and impressionable, I thought I knew everything. I thought I was intelligent for rejecting faith, but I did not realize that there were people far wiser that still had faith.

I had no idea that God is love until I heard it from Jesus, it can only have a positive influence on your life and the world around you. It gives you a divine strength and allows you to do literally anything through faith.

Not even a seed of doubt remains in my mind, there is no way that I can deny the love that I have witnessed. He is all things, and to know Him is to access the ultimate truth.

As someone who has had multiple near death experience and has ridden the line between alive/dead for a while from my substance use, I feel comfortable saying that God is definitely real. Don’t beat yourself up for straying, we are humans and are not perfect! Honestly I feel that we go through difficult times to make us stronger and wiser. I like what Logic says in his song Lord Willin’ : “ Life ain't picture perfect, we use the negatives to develop”.

Dear Diary...

Nothing in this post changes the point of my last post. Your "evidence" was love that exists around you- this is not evidence of a specific god who did various deeds in the biblical literature, any more than the evil I see around me is evidence of Darth Vader. In the OP you weren't talking to "love", what would that even mean. Claims like "I spoke to god" are utterly unevidenced. I should lend no more credence to that than you would to my claim I spoke to an extraterrestrial being yesterday. There is precisely the same amount of evidence in support of either (none).

Hmm I guess you are banned, and in fairness I realize you cant respond...but to follow up on the ET thing,

If I said "I spoke to an extraterrestrial being last night" - you should not believe me for obvious reasons- it's not evidenced, and is an extraordinary claim. So you shouldnt believe the claim, but at least thiscouldhave possibly happened. Maybe some strange alien landed in my backyard in his UFO yesterday, and I talked to him.

However, it could be argued that someone saying "I spoke to God" (God in the sense of the entity portrayed as God in the bible) could not have spoken to this entity even in theory, as the entity as portrayed in the Bible is logically contradictory in many respects (one book or passage says God's nature is X, another says it's not X. Here is just one list of examples of this:https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.c...opics/god.html). A lot of this is the consequence of the Bible being not written at once by one person, but over many different centuries by various individuals....this is one reason why there are discrepancies). There are also contradictions of omnipotence/omniscience lurking here....e.g. the whole can god create a boulder large enough he cannot move. Something that is contradictory actually does not exist, and so if someone says "I spoke to God" referring to this contradictory entity, you can actually be sure it didnt happen (nevermind just being skeptical of the claim regardless, which everyone should be).

For example, if I didnt just say "I spoke to an extraterrestrial being" yesterday (which you couldnt be sure didnt happen, although you shouldnt believe the claim), but rather said "I spoke to an extraterrestrial being which was both less than 5 feet tall and also greater than 7 feet tall", then indeed you can be sure it didnt happen. Similarly, if I say I drew a triangle with 5 sides, found an integer that is both odd and even, or found a square circle, you would also know I didnt do any of those things without even looking into the evidence aspect.

kind of hard to believe in God when i see footage of people in the 1800s to 1900s and they were living and resting in peace now better then a billion and plus today that are born in extreme poverty because of their parents...

why is OP banned lol

BGC got banned for his faith in God. Damn

Why was op banned? I felt refreshed reading his posts.