How To Believe In God When You Don't?

 

The Holy God Most High Calls Everybody To Say They Are Sorry

God is all together righteous devoid of even the tiniest hint of wrong in His actions or thoughts.
God is the architect of honesty, love, patience, holiness, purity and much, much more. And that is exactly how He made our world.

Who Is God Most High

It is not something that God just decided to do, to make life difficult for people, it truly is just who He is. God can never become something else, or act another way. All His commandments are there to protect His nature and to watch over us.
These principles were built INTO the entire cosmos, and of course, formulated into the human race.
He is unable to do anything that is inconsistent with His Character. You could think of it as the 'unalterable laws and regulations of the whole universe.'
So, the Sovereign God of the Holy Bible is the Great Builder God of the entire cosmos, as well as the builder of the littlest element of an electron, which is invisible to us. Now this is what God's Word says of the God of Heaven:

I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8) For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealousGod. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
High above all nations is Jehovah, Above the heavens is his honour. (Psalm 113:4)
Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
All the angels stood around the throne...They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God, (Revelation 7:11)
Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding... (Job 38:4)
Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!..... (Job 38:21)
can thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said: And the Lord God answered Job, and said, Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it. And Job answereth Jehovah, and saith: -- Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth. ?I have spoken once, and I will not reply; Or twice, and I will add nothing more.?..... Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified? Or hast thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job answered the LORD, and said: I know that Thou can do every thing, And that no purpose can be withholden from Thee. You ask how I dare question your wisdom when I am so very ignorant. I talked about things I did not understand, about marvels too great for me to know. You said, "Listen now, and I will speak. When I question you, you will inform Me." ?I had heard of You only by the hearing of the ear, But now my spiritual eye sees You. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes. (Job 42:1-6)
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)


The majority of people at present, have only heard about God, they are yet to really connected with Him.
Then for what reason, do some people arrogantly require explanations from Sovereign God, to the things we don't agree with? Of course, the important doubts we have of the suffering innocent and of proper justice are appropriate, but still not to the level where we can demand that the Almighty God Most High to offer humans an explanation of His presumed unsatisfactory management of our life.

A Developer Is The Owner Of Their Unique Invention, Lawfully

Sovereign God not only owns the whole universe, but He also owns us as well, and what He wants is that which belongs to Him. His command is to be devoted to Him in turn. It may be difficult to accept, but this planet is His enterprise, and He is able to construct it however He wishes. If we made it, we can lay down the rules. However, Almighty God tells us:

'You are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

Humans Have Not Been Created As Bots Or Even As Pets But Rather As Family

The Creator God could have removed every dangers from this world, to give us a problem-free life, but only by building each of us as dutiful robotic machines. But that is certainly not what the Creator God sought.
He sought after beings endowed with free choice and are able to voluntarily decide to be devoted to Him.
A being something resembling what He is.

If You Furnish Them With Independent Choice You May Lose Them

Yet, the danger with assigning your produced being their own independent choice, is that they may forsake the creator, and that is definitely what we have done.
This is a critical issue, consider all of the occasions we do or think think or do that are bad, often also known as sinfulness in the Holy Bible, they utterly trample on God's order and sanctity, and again, you may possibly say violating the Unchangeable Laws of the entire cosmos - the ordered cosmos He produced. These trespasses have divorced us from God.

'"The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.' (Psalm 19:12)

Think about it like this nauseating contrast. A fresh sterile and clean swab taken out of a fresh sealed packet to clean your badly bleeding cut, in comparison with a used, dirty swab having been sat and walked on for a few months from the doctor's area seating or flooring. Tell me how are you feeling? Eww, gross!. Well then, that is just a hint of how God feels about the things we do bad, which involves the so-called minor things we did bad as well as wrong attitudes, that offend His perfection, and goes against the unchangeable laws of the whole universe.
Even the wrong things we regard as minor, for instance: pride, withholding forgiveness to somebody that maltreated us, ignoring God our Creator, resentment and blaspheming God, and a range of other things.

Bad Stuff Needs To Be Put Right And Almighty God Is The Debt Collector

Our sins are debts to God:
'and forgive us our debts, as we have also forgiven our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

Each one of these bad things are a violation of the beautiful purity, honor and rule of God. Each time we act one, it is punching God in the face. In the Bible, contained in the Ten Commandments, God proclaims not to speak His Holy name in vain meaning, dismissively. At any time, have you ever blasphemed His Name? God proclaims never to envy stuff that belong to others. Have you even once coveted to have your friend's life, home, wife or stuff? God proclaims that it is wrong to steal, have you at some time, stolen anything in your life? God proclaims that we respect our father and mother. Have you ever talked back to your father or mother?

Sovereign God knows everything. And, ALL bad thing MUST be put right. A point in time will come when every bad thing WILL be judged, or it could be said, settle an account to be at peace with the unalterable laws of the entire cosmos. Or alternatively, the Word of God calls it; to satisfy the wrath of Almighty God. This may well come as a surprise to most people, given that they have been told that The Creator God really loves each person so much, that they believe that God Most High can not be outraged with anybody due to some evil they are doing.

Regularly I hear people, unaware of these basics, asking ?Huh! I was told that God really loves people? What's this added requirement on holiness??

And I enlighten them, "Without a doubt, He actually does love people, except people are unable to hold the love part of God Most High and snub the perfection part. It's unworkable. It is openly proclaimed in the Bible, and people are seldom told about such things. Regretfully, in this time in history preachers mostly only tell the pleasant teachings, rather than the entire distasteful teaching.
People will never know the Eternal God by means of our worldly values, feelings and behaviour. He absolutely is ?out of this world? and He tells us just who, He really is and how He rules in his book. Insisting that He abide by our rules, only gives us a futile hopefulness in something that is not true and shall crash sometime.
Humans wrongly fault God Most High for the things that go wrong in the world, but it is not at all God?s doing. He made it all superbly, Adam and Eve ruined everything and we continue to screw up. They trample on God's order and sanctity; the 'unalterable laws and regulations of the whole universe.' God could not just come along and make all things nice for humans. The directives or process of things that Sovereign God started, has to be concluded.
Each and every sin debt has to be paid for.

But, God made available a strategy for our sin to be paid for, to pay the legal requirements of God's abiding Law, the unchanging law of the whole universe. That glorious strategy, was the crucifying, death, burial and the raising back to life of His Son, Jesus. And, this glorious deed was carried out openly before the audience of all creation in the universe ? humans, angelic beings and the Devil.
Jesus was the unblemished sacrifice that can pay for our bad stuff; thoughts, conduct and attitudes. Absolutely nothing else could pay for our own bad stuff.
The Bible says:

'for all sinned (done bad stuff), and are coming short of the glory of God;' (Romans 3:23)
So, just being a 'good little boy or girl? and have done many 'good' things can't save people from the grave penalty of the sinnful thoughts, conduct and attitudes, only Jesus Christ can. If all we do during life is be a good man or woman and that can include going to church, that will not save anybody and won't allow for any person to get into heaven. Meaning, going to everlasting pain, that's hell:

'For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

No, it is not doing good that saves us, you need to repent of all of the sins you do, and live fully for the Most High God. I shall clarify this with more detail in just a moment.

For this reason I find that going to funeral services of a non-Christian really troubles me. This is also the reason why my major aim in life is telling people about what God is really like. To tell those who never go to church, and more than that, to folks who actually do go to church but still never correctly understood the real truths. The false impression of God is prevalent, and is for the reason that the teaching they heard was unclear or it was affected by the unsound beliefs of modern man, from preachers continually endeavoring to cause the Unceasing, Unchangeable Almighty God to seem as if He is just a sweet, huggable grandfather form of god, without His intense righteousness and the judgment of bad things. That's a bogus god from their make-believe.
Over and over I hear atheists questioning ?So how could God act like that, Christians say He was the God of love?? That is true, but you will never dispense with God's judgment of bad things, because His Book pronounces much more regarding His piety and judgment of bad things, than His love.
You cannot appreciate the Timeless God through the use of our thinking and our existence. He correctly is ?out of this world? and He declares to humankind who He really is and that He rules in the Holy book. Imagining he may adopt our standards, only offers us a hazardously unsound view of God.
And keep in mind, there is no possible way to fake it if you don't really mean it. Almighty God is aware of all one's thoughts.

Give Yourself Totally To God And All Of My Bad Things Have Been Paid

The sole way to have your sins forgiven and get a ticket to heaven, is to recognise how vile we are before a Holy God, and to tell God that we are ashamed of our wrongdoing. And after that to completely give up your own being to God, and be subject to Him as boss for the rest of our life. That, is the correct framework of our existence on the earth He built for His pleasure:

'And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.' (Luke 9:23)

God never said ?Now live as a good or nice person, do many good deeds for other people, and then you will not ever be sent to the lake of fire .?
It's a fact, this is what the Creator God pronounced about when you're pardoned of your transgression:

'Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else:
"Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican. ?But I fast twice in a week and I tithe everything that I possess.? But the publican stood afar off, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me, I am a sinner.
I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.?' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Pharisee in this story is not committing the presumed ?bad' sins like murder, as we like to say, yet he did not receive forgiveness by God.
While the tax gatherer does do ?bad' wrong things but was pardoned by God, for the reason that he genuinely repented.
It is a humiliating action to admit we have been and are, evil and to surrender our future absolutely to God. But without it we wouldn't be protected from our transgressions, we have got to come to Almighty God submissive and weak. Jesus said :

'He called a child, had him stand among them. And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

One's Liability Can't Be Paid For By Living As An Extraordinarily Good Person

'For by grace ye are saved, through faith: and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not by works, that no one may boast.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Do You Want The Lake Of Fire Or Surrender Your Life To God Most High?

'And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.' (Luke 9:23)

To ?Carry one's cross daily? meant, we must be living in a self-giving fashion every day for God.
The Bible also says:

'Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. (Romans 12:1)

'but reverence the Lord God in your hearts, and be always ready to answer every one that asks of you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.' (1Peter 3:15)

Therefore: Jesus Christ will become your owner. Always. And as the Bible instructs, we live for Jesus Christ, reading the Bible, praying day by day, informing others about the Creator God, and helping anyone when lead to. The Holy God, is our assignment and reason for the remainder of our life.

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