Where Is God?

To deny the existence of God is to deny the existence of self. It always amuses me when non-believers claim that Christians are narrow-minded. How more ignorant and narrow-minded can you get than putting your faith in the denial of truth? Believing facades, pretending that your life is ok, living with contempt and bitterness and deceit. It's a self-preservation reflex mechanism and an unwillingness to change sinful behaviour, not to mention godless indoctrinations that discourage people from even questioning that what they have been told is based purely on fearful denial.

Christians know that we are of spirit, soul and body - the world often doesn't even accept the soul. We believe in freedom, righeteousness, integrity, boldness, hope, joyfulness, love... the world is enslaved to immorality and selfishness, and is dependent on balancing everything on the point of false pretenses. Everything is not ok if you don't accept salvation, no matter how much you pretend otherwise. And no matter how much people spout their unbelief in the supernatural, dependence on the physical and the non-existence and -relevance of spiritual truths, it doesn't change fact and it doesn't change Truth.

Someone might ask me to prove the existence of God. Well that's just stupid. He doesn't have to prove our existence, does he? You don't "prove" that something is there when you can't say where there is. It goes beyong the feeble limits of human understanding to comprehend an uncaused cause as immense as God. You can't put him into a box and you can't just state that he isn't there simply because you are afraid of the implications and in your very, very limited knowledge and experience in this broad universe, you just haven't come across any "proof" - when it stares us right in the face every minute of our lives!

The entrance of sin into this world - through disobedience - also brought with it such arrogance that was gifted to humans that unless spiritual revelation is attained, God himself, most worthy of everything we can give back to him, is completely and utterly denied. What a cop-out. This life is so short! It's illogical to live your entire life without questioning what you are told, what you experience. Now that's ignorance. Belief is based on an individual conclusion of inputs. To believe such a profound lie as human evolution and atheism doesn't necessarily make you gullible - unless you are also presented with the truth. Ahh, the power of choice.

So why do so many people reject God? The simple answer is, they are weak. Weak-minded, weak-willed and lacking in understanding. But it goes beyond that. When you bring God into the equation you also bring into light human weakness and all of our shortcomings. You show just how frail humanity is, how proud we are, how much we depend on short-term fulfilment in the light of an eternal destiny, how evil and corrupt our souls are, how much we pained God before he sent Jesus to take our place.

It's not a matter of asking forgiveness and accepting salvation as a ticket out of hell. There is so much more to this life than choosing to believe in God and rocking through to heaven. He wouldn't have given us physical bodies, emotions, intellect and the ability to choose without a good reason. And in knowing that we would get to the point where there is so much blindness and demon-worship (Islam, Buddhism, Mormonism, New Age beliefs, Hinduism, Shinto, etc.), it still came down to one thing: in the end, it's all worth it :)

The choice is, and always will be, yours.

-Timotheos
Apologetically speaking

I have this thing against anyone of the mormon "faith". It's not a hatred towards the people, but in my spirit it just saddens me whenever I see those badge-flashing, suit-wearing pagans. So lost. So deceived. So ignorant. Just one more of Satan's laugh-in-your-face schemes...