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As far as not liking it, a reply or an answer, there are plenty of Christians that try and attempt to give you first hand personal experiences with God.    Stories from former atheist, non-believers, Christians from all over the world who through faith did put their trust in Christ and afterward was rewarded by the gift from God of God's Holy Spirit dwelling inside along with their created spirit.  Thousands if not millions who testify of personal miraculous changes to their lives caused by the presence of God's Holy Spirit.   Yet those testimonies are met with unbelief, statements that these people are deluded or don't know what they are talking about.

 

Fact is that these Christians experienced something that an atheist or non-believer never will and that is God's presence which dramatically altered their existence.  It makes total sense, though, that they would deny God would exist or claim such testimonies are delusion as it didn't happen to them so it has to be false.  For some that denial is an external one for within the inner spirit/mind they feel the tug of God's Spirit's conviction.  Conviction from something that they claim doesn't exist and cannot exist so, for some, they continue to deny it until one day that inner call totally disappears.  I personally believe God has patience on each of us but that there is a point when God stops speaking and calling unto someone.  My personal prayer is that when God is calling that one that they yield to God and His Calling in their own silent way.  I truly believe that is why some are here, on the forum today, they are seeking answers the real answers to questions only they know and that I believe only God, their own spirit's creator, can answer and fill that void that is there.


In the end when it's all over and done everyone comes to the point of physical death and afterwards the undeniable answer.  Cry Pascal's wager all you want but that is just an attempt to ease the realization that if you make the wrong decision and find out you were actually wrong then you will be facing the very real realization of what your fate will be, facing a deity that was once reaching out to you and knowing that you were cold hearted to God's one communication with you, a conviction and invitation to reconcile with the creator.  Sometimes i wonder who certain ones who protest the most are trying to convince, Christians or their own selves, their own conscience?

 

Through history Christians have gave their lives for a reason that was more than just faith or hope but because they knew something to be real and valid.  These were not people fighting a jihad or Spiritual war but gave their lives instead in peace instead of renouncing their faith in God or their testimony in Christ/God.  There was some real reason they were willing to die and that reason was the Holy Spirit of God.

Acts 5:38-42 (CEV)
{38} So I advise you to stay away from these men. Leave them alone. If what they are planning is something of their own doing, it will fail.
{39} But if God is behind it, you cannot stop it anyway, unless you want to fight against God. The council members agreed with what he said,
{40} and they called the apostles back in. They had them beaten with a whip and warned them not to speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.
{41} The apostles left the council and were happy, because God had considered them worthy to suffer for the sake of Jesus.
{42} Every day they spent time in the temple and in one home after another. They never stopped teaching and telling the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.  


For Christians who suffer ridicule and demeaning realize that vs 41 applies to you also!


Romans 8:6-11 (CEV)
{6} If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace.
{7} Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God's laws.
{8} If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.
{9} You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.
{10} But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins.
{11} Yet God raised Jesus to life!God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.

Our inner sinful nature is hostile toward God and therefore the Spirit's conviction. There are only two ways to silence God's call, the Holy Spirit's conviction.  One is to yield to it and repent, put your faith in Christ and yield to God.  The other is to wait until God stops dealing with you.  It is up to each individual to make their own choice and then to live, and physically die, with that choice.

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