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 At
the age of nine, most boys know just enough about girls to know that they
don't like them and want nothing more to do with them. The idea of
getting advice on love from someone who has never experienced love and yet
is strongly opposed to it seems pretty ridiculous, doesn't it? What
real insights could this young man possibly have? A man needs years
of experience to even begin to know something about women, and you
wouldn't want advice from just any man on the subject, but only those who
had been successful in their relationships, right? Curiously, the most outspoken opponents of God are
those who have never experienced Him in their lives and yet are strongly
opposed to the notion that He even exists. There's a subtle irony in
putting your energies into opposing someone who you say you don't believe
to exist. Even so, with no experience with God and a strong bias
against Him, what real insights can such people possibly have? This isn't to say that those who claim that God doesn't
exist aren't highly intelligent, well educated and even extremely rational
people.
It just says that without the experience that brings one to faith in God,
their statements are really nothing more than ungrounded opinions. Often they
strike out against religion as an institution rather than God as a person,
because they do not yet know God as a person. If they did, they would
know that He, as revealed in the words of Jesus Christ, is more opposed to
religious hypocrisy and self-righteousness than are they, and in that
knowledge they might begin to come to know Him.
The fool says in his
heart, "There is no God."
Psalms 14:1 A
non-believer is someone whose life hasn't yet been touched by God.
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man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the
Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand
them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you
(religious) hypocrites; as it is written: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.' You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of
men."
Words of Jesus Christ in Mark 7:6-8 For
since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal
power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from
what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although
they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him,
but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were
darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.
Romans 1:20-22 One
with an experience should never be subjugated to one with an opinion.
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