How To Have Faith When You Don't Believe In God?

 

The Holy God Most High Summons Everybody To Apologise

God is utterly perfect devoid of even the slightest tint of bad in His actions or thoughts.
Sovereign God is the inventor of love, purity, holiness, patience, honesty and so much more than that. And that is how He created our planet.

Who Then Is The Most High God

It isn't a plan that God simply made a decision to do, to make things more complicated for humans, it's who He is. God can never be something else, or act another way. Every one of His laws are there to safeguard His disposition and to watch over humans.
These governing laws were instituted INTO the whole universe, and of course, formulated into the human race.
God can't do anything that is inconsistent with His Integrity. One could consider it the 'indestructible governing laws of the cosmos.'
So, the Sovereign God of the Holy Bible is the Great Builder God of the whole universe, as well as the architect of the littlest piece of an atom, which is indiscernible to us. The Word of God tells us this of God Most High:

I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols. (Isaiah 42:8) The LORD your God is a raging fire, a God who does not tolerate rivals. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
For the LORD is high above the nations; his glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
All the angels stood around the throne...and they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!..... (Job 38:4)
Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!..... (Job 38:21)
?Can you tie up the chains of the Pleiades, Or untie the cords of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
The LORD said to Job: Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. Job answered the LORD, "Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, but I have no answer?twice, but I have nothing to add.?..... Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just? And do you have an arm like God? And do you thunder with a voice like His? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job replied to the LORD: ?I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me. I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee. Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.? (Job 42:1-6)
"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them! (Matthew 5:3)


The majority of people today, have only heard about God, they haven't genuinely met Him.
Then for what reason, do people haughtily require all the answers from the Great God, to everything we don't agree with? Naturally, the significant concerns we have of the blameless that suffer and of true justice are valid, nonetheless not to the degree where we can command the Supreme God to provide you and I an explanation of His supposedly poor handling of life.

The Creator Is The Owner Of Their Own Personal Creation, Lawfully

God Most High not only owns the whole cosmos, but He also owns us also, and all He wants is that which is His. His command is to be devoted to Him back. It usually is difficult for you to accept, but this planet is His business, and He is able to build it however He wants. If we made it, we can make the terms and conditions. But, the Most High God tells us:

'and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Never forget these commands that I am giving you today.' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

Almighty God In No Way Wanted Manlike Robots For Family, He Sought After Personal Beings

God may perhaps have removed every risk out of this world, to make life more comfier, but only by making all of us as submissive robots. But that is most assuredly not what the Creator God desired.
God Most High wished for an individual endowed with free will and are able to willingly decide to love Him.
A living being in some ways, similar to Himself.

If You Bestow People With Free Will You Can Lose Them

Yet, the risk with giving your created creature their own autonomy, is that they may well forsake you, and that is precisely what we have done.
This is a problem, consider all those instances we commit or think think or commit which are bad, often called wickedness in the Scriptures, they entirely assault God's character and holiness, and once again, you can say desecrating the Fixed Laws of the universe - the ordered universe He produced. These bad things have divorced us from God.

'"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable? who can know it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can notice every mistake? Forgive my hidden faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Imagine it like this disgusting contrast. A fresh sterile and clean wipe taken out of a fresh unopened pack to deal with your bad bleeding laceration, now, contrast that with a previously used, dirty wipe having been walked and sat upon for many days off the doctor's room floor or seats. Tell me how are you feeling? Blech, dirty. Well then, that is only a glimmer of how God Most High is repulsed by our actions that are bad, even the seemingly insignificant matters we do bad and sinnful attitudes, that dishonor His righteousness, and attacks the immutable laws of the cosmos.
And that includes the things we consider insignificant, such as: foul language, despising somebody, deceit, being ungrateful to God and failing to obey Almighty God, and a range of other things.

Each One Of These Bad Things Are A Shortfall That Have To Be Paid For, To A Sin-Loathing God

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

These things dishonor the sublime purity, holiness and supremacy of God Most High. For any instance we perpetrate one, it is giving God a punch in the head. In the Bible, contained in His Law, The Lord declares that it is bad to steal, have you at any time stolen anything you wanted? The Lord proclaims that we honor our mother and father. Did you ever show disrespect to your mother? The Lord declares not to use His Name in vain or carelessly. At any time, have you ever blasphemed His Name? The Lord declares do not crave others belongings. Have you ever coveted to have another person's lifestyle, home, husband or things?

Sovereign God from whom not anything is hidden. And, every single sin has to be punished. The day is coming when every sin MUST be convicted and judged, or you could say, reconciled to be in harmony with the abiding laws of the universe. Or as the Holy Bible describes it; to assuage the wrath of God. This may come as a shocker to most people, given that they have been told that the Sovereign God loves everyone a great deal, that they think that Almighty God can hardly be outraged with somebody because of any bad things they are doing.

Over and over I hear people, unaware of these basics, say ?But, Your God is meant to love us? What's this extra command on purity??

To which I answer, "Yes, He actually does love humanity, but still you are not able to possess the love side of God and take no notice of the sinlessness side. It really is out of the question. It is openly expressed in the Bible, and people are hardly ever told about this key fact. Sadly, these days pastors mostly only tell the pleasant teachings, not the whole disagreeable truth.
You cannot comprehend the Everlasting God by using our human values, requirements and behaviour. Sovereign God really is ?not of this world? and He tells humans exactly who, He is and how He operates in the Word of God. Asking that He abide by our rules, only gives us a useless hope in something that is not genuine and shall collapse eventually.
Some people incorrectly find fault with God for the calamities in life, however, it is in no way God?s inadequacy. He produced it all immaculately, The first humans wrecked it and we continue to screw up. They assault God's character and holiness; the 'indestructible governing laws of the cosmos.' God could not simply come in and make all things nice for everyone. The timeline or progression of things that He set in motion, has to be completed.
All debts of sinfulness must be paid for.

But, God made available a plan of action for all our evil to be punished, to satisfy the legal conditions of God's uncompromising Law, the established law of the cosmos. That spectacular plan of action, was the crucifying, death, burial and being brought back to life of His Son, Jesus Christ. And, this spectacular plan was performed for everyone to see before all creation ? humans, angelic beings and the Devil.
Jesus Christ was the perfect sacrificial payment that is able to pay the bill for your bad stuff; thinking, attitudes and ways. Absolutely nothing else would pay for our bad stuff.
The Bible says:

'Because all of them have sinned (done bad stuff) and are deprived of the glory of God,' (Romans 3:23)
So, merely being a 'really good little boy or girl? and doing many 'good' things will not rescue humans from the significant consequence of the evil thinking, attitudes and ways, only the Lord Jesus is able to. If all one does in their lives is be the perfect man or woman and maybe even going to church, that won't rescue anybody and will never enable anybody to go to heaven. Meaning, going away to Gehenna, that's hell:

'But the product of sin is death and the gift of God is eternal life in our Lord Yeshua The Messiah.' (Romans 6:23)

It's a fact, it is not being good that saves humans, you have to repent of all of the bad things you have done, and live fully for the Most High God. I will clarify this further in a minute.

Because of this I find that being at a funeral of a non-Christian disturbs me intensely. Which is also the reason my chief concern during life is revealing to people about who God actually is. To inform people who do not go to church, and more than that, to others who actually do go to church but still haven't yet effectively fully understood what it was really about. The misconception of God is not uncommon, and is due to the fact that the preaching they heard was ambiguous or it was jeopardised by the erroneous ideas of modern political correctness, from teachers incessantly endeavoring to make the Eternal, Changeless God to look as though He is simply a lovable, warm grandpa type god, devoid of His awesome purity and the punishments of evil sins. That is definitely a man-made god from their imagination.
Repeatedly I observe agnostics asking ?So how can God be like this, I thought He loves us?? Sure, but we can't avoid God's punishments of evil sins, when His Book declares a lot more on the subject of His holiness and punishments of evil sins, than His love.
You cannot appreciate the Eternal God using our principles and practices. Sovereign God actually is ?not of this world? and He shows humankind who He is and how He governs in the Holy Bible. Expecting Him to adopt my principles, simply offers us a dangerously mistaken picture of the Creator God.
And consider, you have no means to hide it from God when you are not real. God is aware of all your thoughts.

Surrender Entirely To God And Our Very Own Debts Have Been Paid In Full

In order to have your trespasses acquitted and be spared from the lake of fire, is to acknowledge how wicked we really are before a Most holy God, and to tell God that we are ashamed of what we did bad. And after that to totally surrender one's life to God, and be subject to Him as our manager for the rest of our lives. That, is the true matrix of humans in the world He made for Himself:

'And He was saying to all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and let him take up his cross every day, and let him follow Me.' (Luke 9:23)

Jesus Christ hasn't say ?Just live your life as a good or fine person, achieve various good things for other individuals, and you will live with me in paradise .?
No, this is what Jesus stated regarding when you're acquitted of your sinfulness:

'Now about certain persons who consider themselves to be just, while disdaining others, he told also this parable:
Two men went up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-farmer. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice in the week, and I give a tithe of everything that I gain. ' "But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not so much as lift his eyes to Heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God, be reconciled to me, sinner that I am.'
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Teacher of the law in this parable does not commit the so-called ?really bad' sins like grand theft, as we like to say, but he was not forgiven by God.
Yet, the taxman actually did do ?really bad' evils but was acquitted by Sovereign God, due to the fact that he really apologised.
It is a humiliating experience to say that we have been and are, wrong and to yield our lives fully to God. However, devoid of it we are not able to be protected from our wrongdoings, we must come to Almighty God very humble and powerless. Jesus Christ said :

'And Yeshua called a boy and stood him in their midst. And said, Truly I say to you, Except ye be turned, and become as young children, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

A Person's Deficit Cannot Be Paid For By Being A 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 Desire Reality Of Hell Or Give Up Your Daily Life To God?

'And He was saying to all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and let him take up his cross every day, and let him follow Me.' (Luke 9:23)

To ?Take up your cross every day? indicates, we must serve in a self-sacrificing manner day by day for our new faith.
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 reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)

'but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear.' (1Peter 3:15)

To paraphrase: Jesus Christ becomes your boss. Your entire life. And as the Bible teaches, we live for Jesus Christ, learning the Bible, talking with God each day, informing other people who God is, and helping people as we are lead to. God Most High, is our mission and cause for the remainder of our existence.

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