And you believe all the above because????Here' the big problemo.
When a person becomes 'converted to christian', the first thing they believe is God is perfect and they come up with these theories.....
1) I'm saved
2) God is perfect
3) what I read and understand in the bible is right.
4) I'm on God's side and God is on my side.
5) God has blessed me with his spirit and teaches me.
6) Because of all the above, it naturally falls that everthing I believe about God is right.
7) When stupid dark heathens who know nothing argue with me, its my duty to put them right.
8) Heathens are wrong, I am right.
9) Heathens are off to hell, I'm off to heaven.
10) Whatever happens, I'm sticking to my guns, you can't sway me because God who is never wrong has spoken to me so you heathens are wrong wrong wrong!
Welp, here's some more news....
A) If you sit in your mothers basement in your underwear studying trading, you will never make as a trader.
B) If you sit in your mothers basement in your underwear studying the bible, you will never know God.
On a dark cloudless night poke your head out the window and gaze upward, there are tiny dots of light in the sky, each one are stars, galaxies, worlds much larger than ours, and more diverse.
With all mankinds telescopes, microscopes, cameras, internet, libraries, a gazillion books, our knowledge is but a grain of sand in the ocean.
You can sit in a huddle with church mates reading and studying the bible, you will never know God, He is not one to be contained by human wisdom.
Think again, the universe stretches for billions of light years, you sit in your suburban house supping cups of tea thinking you know God?
If the devil (if it exists) wanted to cast deception on humans, surely this would be one of them.
A. You received it by divine revelation?
B. You want it to be true?
C. It is what makes sense to you?
Can you even explain all that is necessary for you to exist? Your body is fueled by food that comes from sources you probably know very little about, you have a brain that you've never seen and yet somehow it processes your thoughts without your thinking about how it is processing your thoughts, unless your tired, then you might think about how your thought process is slower than it usually is, but you are not actively monitoring the different communications going on inside your brain that actually become your thoughts. You have all of this given to you, and by Whom? Nobody, you say, or at least nobody that is capable of being known, you say. Yet, how do you know that? You don't even know how you are held together, and if maybe you are secretly a doctor and a trader and you do understand some of how you are held together, you don't make it happen. You don't tell your heart to pump or make your blood flow to the right places in your body, etc.
All of these are the evidence of design just as much as design engineering is required to plan out and then build a computer.
Would you say your trading computer just put itself together, evolution caused it to form? Well, no, you would say, because it's not alive. (Well, we hope it's not alive...with all the AI advancement, maybe....nevermind).
The thing is, evolution hasn't been shown to fill in the missing links. There is some adaptation that involves the re-arranging of already existing genetic material, but it cannot explain bacteria eventually evolving into an elephant. The only explanation that makes sense is that all things were created by God.
The Bible has prophesies that really should be looked into and invalidated before anyone would even consider risking his eternal living arrangement based on the idea that there is no God. God has a very good track record of revealing future events.
The Bible contains truth that makes sense, not because people imagined the truths the way they want them to be, but because God revealed the truths.
In fact, one proof that God wrote the Bible is that the messages within the Bible are NOT what the human heart wants to hear or what we would have come up with on our own!
