In a discussion I was told that God has to prepare the one's heart to be ready to accept him and that Bible doesn't make much sense without this preparation. Do you agree that God so chooses those to who he will reveal himself?
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23Skidoo
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He reveals himself to everyone, but not everyone wants to listen. Some people have hardened them selves so much that he does give up on them, but every person gets the chance.
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Yes, I believe God can only reveal himself to those who are ready to see. Just as you cannot see the sky is blue without first opening your eyes. I'm not sure if I believe God chooses who will and will not see. I think we do. I think it's part of our free will to do so. But from my experience, if you ask to know what our purpose is, if you ask God to show himself, if you really meditate on it, sooner or later he will. That's just my experience.
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God is available to everyone. God does not choose to reveal, in my opion, rather people must choose to have an open heart and be ready to accept what is right there in front of your eyes and within each of us.
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God did not prepare Noah, Abraham or Moses...they already had Faith among a heathen peoples, that's why HE chose them! the next thing HE demanded was Obediance and they had that too... what this discussioner was saying is there are millions who claim or think they know...some God has kept BLIND but HE will reveal KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING to those HE sees is truely trying to know and understand.."open their eyes" i understand this because it happened to me...for yrs i read and prayed but did not get the "big picture" ..and then at a bad time in my life, after being away, i started reaching out to him, it was the only peace i had ,a few minutes everyday..and the next thing I knew i was saying over and over, "how come i missed this, and i had it all wrong, and the pic,just got clearer and clearer...I was Blessed and so Grateful..for HIS AMAZING GRACE...HE does so choose who HE wants to bless but HE would NEVER choose not to help one "draw closer" to HIM and only HE knows that person..so, don't let this hinder u or cause u to stumble...God is personal and this person is "stigmatizing" HIM as if he knew....the best:)justme
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I understand where this comes from. Many people find the Bible too difficult to really grasp. Many unsaved people can and do comprehend it ( in a secular way ) without the Holy Spirit guiding them through it. You can have a head knowledge of scriptures without having a heart knowledge of the same. Reading the Bible without the Spirit's guidance can never bring the full message into focus. The Bible says that Jews who read the Old Testiment by itself have a shroud covering the deeper meanings of what they're reading. In a similar way some aspects of the New Testiment will be missed by those who try to comprehend it without the Spirits guidance.
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23Skidoo, The discussion started with how the Holy Spirit talks to a Believer to reviel things non believers are unable to see. By the way reguarding the thought that Buddists, Muslem, and Hindus make similar claims... Buddists do NOT claim faith in thier beliefs gives them a personal relationship with Buddah. Nor do Hindus claim faith in thier religion gives them a personal relationship to any of thier many gods. There may be a FEW instances where Muslems claim faith in Muhhamed started a personal relationship with Alla, but for the majority of them no such claim is made. A personal relationship with God through faith in His son is uniquely a Christian experience.
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Yes He has to choose us,as ephesians 1:4,5 says For he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world.Having predestinated us unto adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,according to His Good pleasure and will.Also as Jesus said you have not chosen me but I have chose you.Paul said in ephesians 2:1 that we are dead in our trespasses and sins,so how can a dead man in the spirit choose that which is the spirit of God.The bible say's we are spiritually disearned.God has to make us alive,before we can choose anything.
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No. As a theist, I do not accept the position that what humans call God belongs to any one religion. In fact, I believe that most often religion gets in the way of perceiving the godhead. It's bad enough that we come up with all of these inadequate perceptions to attempt to define something that is, by its very nature, ineffable; but then to add the codification and frippery of religion, as though it's really "real" muddies the waters even further. I do not believe that God is a "he." I do not believe that the Bible (or for that matter, the Upanishads, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, Wiccan teachings or any other scriptures or religions) has the definitive version of what God *is.* I do believe that if there is a God, some part of that entity is part and parcel of each and every one of us. If there is a God, it is only "knowable" by direct knowledge of the individual and even that is only the vaguest glimmering of "reality."
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