And none of that requires a leap of faith, right. You have to actually establish that God did raise Jesus from the dead. Unfortunately, people say they don’t believe it.Then where are you? Youthen have to establish that what the book said was right, then people ask to prove that, all of this reqires leaps of faith. It’s circular, because all someone has to say is prove it, and you say because it’s written, then people say prove what was written is correct...etc
If that is what you call forensic evidence of the forgiveness of sins,I hope your not a lawyer. It’s not even posible to prove sin exists!
I’m sorry, but your just not going to be the one human on earth that can prove any of this and end up with millions of converts that finally believe. This conversation has been going on forever, you have nothing new to bring to the table.
I know this means a lot to you, so you should of course keep pursuing it, there are worse windmills to be tilting at.
Good nite and thanks.
The nature of the motive for sharing my opinion with you could be (primarily) one of two types: internally directed or externally directed.
That is, either I’m doing it for myself or I’m doing it for something other than myself. Other than myself could include the sake of God, your sake and the sake of truth.
As we discussed earlier, belief initiates not from intellect but from will.
They say the very demons themselves know the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ factually, but they reject belief in the sense that they reject the ethos of belief in Christ. Like “Do you believe in Rock and Roll” doesn’t mean do you think it exists, it means are you with it in your heart.
Some hearts choose to deny God. Some only think they do this, not knowing that down the road they will turn to Him, for whatever reason explainable only through the mystery of free will, a reason known only by the Holy Spirit.