You may not understand John 14:17….. God comes and abides with and within the believer. When that happens, there is no doubt.
The witness within of the Holy Spirit is powerful.
Well there are 4000 recognized religions on this planet and all of them have members who believe just as powerfully as you that they are on the one true path. Yep, no doubts in their mind at all.
And yet simple deductive logic tells you that 3999 of them have to be wrong. So much for the accuracy of powerful feelings.
Well, you are focused on my personal belief and how you think it is not different from someone else's belief. You are not getting the "why" of my belief.
OK.... I'll just repost a response to one who was claiming that there is "no evidence" and leave you all to it.....
".......Well, there is evidence for the existence of God all around us. You either reject it or don’t see it.
Also, as it has been posted before, when the Creator comes to abide “within” the believer, that believer indeed has “proof.”
But, you apparently don’t see and you apparently “don’t have.”
Still, you comment above piques some interest. You state “…. the burden of proof lies with the one making the positive “claim.”….
I think this is nothing but word bafflegab. You may believe that Christians are making a “claim,” but I see it as Christians providing a testimony or witness of our experience.
But, you choose you words carefully and there is one interesting way to look at your post.
Should you be judged….. by a God you claim has not proved His existence….. this God, at your judgment may “play the video tape” of your life and show you literally dozens of times He made His presence known to you…. Only to have you somehow reject the witness.
No one can “argue” you into belief….. Only God can “get you to flip.” I wonder how many times the Spirit has knocked on your door, but you refused to answer the knock. You will say that that has never happened. I would expect that God will show you He knocked dozens of times when the tape rolls."
They still using tape in heaven? No dvd? Hmmm, that's odd. They use VHS or Betamax format?
Why would an omnipotent being capable of blinking the universe into existence give two chits what a being like myself (an ameoba by comparrison) thinks or does? Even worse why would such a being desire to be worshipped by such lowly creatures? That isn't a good look for an all powerful universal super being. Seems a very tawdry human desire.
No, this whole story smacks heavily of what it is. A man made story of which Christianity is but one of many.
