Reply to "Praying for Rain"

Hi GB,

Uno has declared, "Your religion has deluded you so much that you will completely shield yourself from any and all contradictory evidence that you are wrong.  That is just plain stupid."

And, you correctly respond to his huffing and puffing:

Over the days that I participated continually in the forum I've always wondered why atheist and non-believers are so  prevalent in a forum that seems dedicated to something they either reject or don't believe in or about a God or Deity that they say doesn't exist or that they don't care about.

Each of you, in your own way, seek to do battle with God, you seek to defeat God to overwhelm God -- to be supreme to God and that impossibility resonates within your conscience.  That inner created soul/spirit within you,  that same one that will still exist after your physical body dies, longs to know it's creator and without that right relationship with God, it's creator, is an unsatisfying thorn in your flesh.  It eats you alive that there is some need for God that you cannot squelch.

So, you seek to do battle with that urge and need, in effect do battle with God who is convicting you with His Holy Spirit, by doing battle with God by proxy.  You cannot silence God or defeat God so you battle is carried to those who represent God, those who call themselves Christians or believers, on here.

You may present a case on here where you seemingly prevail over God or where you feel you have prevailed over some other Christian who disagrees with you but what you are doing is trying to silence that inner call, from God, that lets you know that there is something else that you do not grasp and that is a right relationship with the (your) creator.

You cannot battle God -- so you battle those that are called by His name.  You seek to demean them or ridicule them in your attempts to do the same to God hoping that will give you the feeling of overcoming God.  Yet, it does little to actually end that inner torment that you deal with every second, every minute, every day.

I do truly believe that many of you are here for that reason.  You wish to overcome and convince others, including convincing yourself, that you have overcome and defeated God.  You seek to blame "our Religion" or claim we are deluded by belief in a God that somehow you cannot experience or know.

The reason you don't know God is you have never met God or given yourself over to God and allowed God to introduce  Himself to you and reconcile your inner spirit with His Holy Spirit.

There may be a few that are here (who) only to be (as) destructive as they can and abusive as they can.  But, I believe  the real reason is what I said above.  There is an inner battle being waged with God's Spirit within and you seek to overcome God by overcoming His proclaimed servants.

You wage a battle by Proxy for you cannot overcome God and stop that inner torment and inner decision that  you deal with daily.  The only way you will overcome that torment is to allow God to speak with you and humble yourself enough to listen.

Jesus Christ died for us to have that ability to actually communicate with God directly and not have to go through a priest or a Holy of Holies.  Through Christ, and our acceptance of His Sacrifice on the Cross for our Sins, we actually have direct access to God and can experience the magnitude of being before God.  There IS no question about "IF God exist" -- for that is answered in a most demonstrative way, by God Himself.

Debate and verbally wage written battle with words as much as you want on these forums, with those of us who call ourselves Christian -- but know that God does His own dealing with people and the real question you must ask, and answer, is whether God is actually the one dealing with you.  For that inner void and vacancy doesn't go away or get better on it's own -- or by any prevailing, one way or the other, over people who say they believe in God.

I have no way of proving any of that (what I have written about atheists is true).  But, I fully believe that to be the case for some of those here -- and why they are here so often -- and in every topic.  They are here for a need.  And (it is) one which cannot be squelched by calling any of us demeaning names or seeking to prevail in an open debate.

GB, all I can add to this is:  AMEN!   AMEN!  AMEN!

Thank you for so clearly stating what is abundantly obvious to all of us.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill