Bible Question:
Where should I turn? I am 14 and I have no idea what to do. I Have done some bad things in life but when I was younger I could ask for gods forgiveness. After this year I have become confused. I dont know how to explain my confusions. I wanna belive in god but then it comes down to facts. When it comes to death ppl belive they go to heven. What is heven? What if when ppl die they just die? What about reincarnation..... Pls some1 help me out with this cuz i dont wanna live a lie. I dont wanna queshtion this for all me life. If god is real where is proof to bakc that up other than the bible and stories of what happend. If there is 1 god than there should b 1 religion right? I asked my mother that queshtion and she said that ppl ahve diffent ways of looking at god. That makes him sound like and imagainary freind....... |
Bible Answer: I would note to other posters that daluvapassion15 asked for proof "other than the bible…" Using the bible to prove God's existence is circular reasoning. How can you prove the existence of God by using a book that you must first recognize as being from that God in the first place? daluvapassion15 : I suggest going through the following little bit of simple reasoning first to help you see that there has to be a Supreme Being. 1. Logical absolutes exist - to say they do not is to affirm it - "2 plus 2 equals 4" is always true in any universe and can never be false 2. Logic is conceptual - it is not a property of matter - it does not exist in nature : rocks, molecules, atoms etc. are not logical things - they just exist as matter 3. Since logic is conceptual it can only exist in mind or thought - therefore mind implies the existence of the meta-physical; i.e. that which is beyond the mere physical universe 4. Mind or thought must imply personality like reason implies a reasoner 5. Since logical absolutes exist and logic implies mind there therefore has to be an Absolute Mind from which and by which they exist are defined Simple huh? Furthermore : That Mind must have a personality or self-consciousness We can see then any absolute being necessarily refers the being we call GOD. The Absolute Mind, the Creator. It is quite reasonable therefore to expect that this Being who has created all things in the physical universe, having given every rational soul a mind like unto His own, that He would communicate with us. He would do this to insure that we do not conceive of Him as a mere created existence like some idol or creature. He would also do this to express His own nature to us. Since all humans have a thing called the moral sense - the notion that right and wrong really do exist and are not a mere invention of society -we may reasonably expect Him to have given us this since to know the difference between that right and that wrong. But the human race is full of suffering and evils of all kinds as is witnessed by all men’s experience in this world. The existence of evil, therefore, also gives this God a very good reason to reveal His existence to us in more than just a meta-physical way that our human frailty could easily miss. That revelation is in fact what we call the bible - a series of coherent writings from ages passed by people of different times that give witness to God and claim authority from God. Of course there are a ton of books claiming to be of divine origin these days. So how do distinguish bewtween the true and the false ? A good man named John Wesley once gave a very simple proof for the bible being the true word of God. He said, "The bible was either written by good men and angels, bad men and devils or God. Good men and angels could not have written it because they would not lie and say 'thus says the Lord'. Bad men and devils could not have written it because they would condemn themselves in it's pages. This only leaves God" Simplistic, I agree, but still a good brief proof. This forum's members could give you an excellent start in that books' authenticity and truth as versus the Koran and others. There are tons of posts here referring to biblical authenticity. Remember that there are around 23,000 copies or more of the original New Testament manuscripts MSS around today. All dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD. There are only about 7 copies Julius Caesars "Wars of Gaul" in existence and are all dated around 1000 years after their writing. We have an enormous amount of evidence for the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead, his works and life. Christianity is the only true "religion" because it is the only one that can deal with a man's past, with a persons wrongs against God and others. It is the only one claiming to have a leader that is NOT DEAD but ALIVE ! I hope this helps. "Look unto Me and be saved all the ends of the earth". |