It puzzles me why anybody would be an atheist, although I am a Christian who has had nothing but a hard way to go all my life. After years and years of spiritual and emotional pain and abuse, even my own death, I can honestly say that I love God and His son, Jesus, more than ever myself. I just don't know why folk don't believe in God; to me it's positively absurd that anyone would not believe in Him. In case you don't know, God is as real as you or I.
As a solution to the general problem of unbelief, I will submit to you that the search for the truth begins absolutely, positively with the telling of it. If you made a religion out of simply never telling even the smallest lie, not even to save your life, not even when you do get into any other kind of trouble, you will find God. Never, never, never lie to anyone about anything. Only after you get this way, will anyone's so called holy books be revealed for what they are.
Why does the above work? Because people who never lie are holy men and women or prophets, and these are the only people our Father in heaven confides in. All a prophet is is a man that tells the truth. Not that I haven't lied myself, but very seldom on my own behalf and never really intentionally. Over the course of my lifetime, I have had close to two hundred friends and acquaitances, perhaps three or four of whom I have ever fibbed to, and at this inadvertently, and I am from one of the most dreadfully sinful places on earth.
The thing that made me particularly special to Jesus is the fact that I would never lie to my wife, for she is the most divinely beautiful and holy creature on earth and I am no fool. The reason I do not lie is that, to me, it's not what a real man or woman is all about. This is the one thing the name Tom Adams will always stand for: the truth, the straight scoop, the real deal and never anything else. I have been off the mark several times, but generally, no. In fact, there isn't one I have ever told that was intentional.
Purify yourselves, then read the holy books, especially the Bible and you will see the truth for a change. Non obstante all the rules and regulations found in some of them, remember that any soi-disant holy book that doesn't at least leave you an honest person is a fake. All religion was all about was this; it's the sum total of all spirituality.
Another thing I must point out is that I feel some people are atheists because they don't get the answers to prayer they want when they want them. Consider, however, that wouldn't you have to be God Himself to have things that way given that there are thousands, even millions of people asking for exactly the same thing, sometimes the world itself? Why should any man forsake belief in the living God just because he couldn't get exactly what he or she wanted in the time they specified instead of the time God specifies like some spoiled rotten kid. The fact of the matter is God always answers prayer, and most within a milisecond; it's simply that the answer to half the things folk ask for is "no." Why? The reasons can be myriad but among them is the fact that, in this world, there are some people that are more important than you. Don't want what you can't have. Stay in your place in other words. Just know that whatever response you recieve to your prayer, God positively adores you and has given you the answer that is in your own best interest as well as the world's; this is real faith! This last point is very personal and it should be to you too. Do you have the faith to accept God's answer and move on to the next prayer and to the next and on to what you must do next in life. Never loose faith in the living God again! But what, you may ask matters in life if all my prayers don't? Answer: The Law. The law is what matters!
Please remember that it's better to be poor than a liar, and that it's better to die an honest man or woman than to live on in this world a dishonest one, for the grave cannot hold the honest. These were my basic standards by the time I was six years old.
Behold, and they shall call Him wonderful councilor, mighty god, everlasting father, and prince or peace!
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