How can we know that it’s real?

Yesterday I briefly contributed to a thread regarding what criteria we apply to believe in the Bible.

The question was posted by an atheist, probably looking to creating some controversy. I tend not to engage too much in these kinds of discussions, because I don’t think the way to modern people’s heart go through their intellect, but rather through their experience.

And it also leads back to why I believe in the whole Bible being the word of God. Frankly I don’t believe in God because of the Bible. Even both my parents were Christians and I’ve grown up in a Christian influenced society, I’m pretty focused on things that I myself can relate and verify in my own life.

So reading about the great deeds Jesus did, and the people both before and after Him, does not ignite my faith by it self.

The experience of a loving God

My faith comes from the love of God reaching out for me, and touching me, directly in my life. My faith comes from my experience of Him. And then, as I see He reveal more and more of Himself to me, through the Bible, it has proven its credibility to me.

Because I first experienced His love, I believe in both Him and His Word.

And I just can’t get past this love. I can’t forget it and leave it behind. This love has marked me. It makes my faith soar and rise to levels I never believed it could reach. It makes my heart so steady and rested in knowledge of what I do not see.

So my simple contribution to the discussion was that a real encounter with this loving God would blow away any intellectual criteria people might have for not believing the Bible.

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Tags: experience, faith

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