Jesus will never be too far from you. Seek the Lord with all your heart and you will find Him. He will direct you in all your ways so that you may depend upon Him.
— Spaniard VIII
Jesus is waiting for you.
Jesus wants to direct you in all your ways.
Jesus wants you to depend on him.
However, Jesus is powerless.
You must seek Jesus for him to be found.
I didn’t know Jesus was lost.
Those who seek Jesus, find him.
And if you seek Jesus and do not find him?
It’s your fault.
It’s never Jesus’ fault.
Why doesn’t Jesus, the all-knowing, all-powerful, always-present God of the universe hide where everyone can find him?
Why is Jesus more like a voyeur or peeping tom, lurking in the shadows, hoping to avoid detection?
I sought Jesus and found him, only to learn that he was a myth, the product of religious indoctrination.
Bruce, you need to seek the “right” Jesus.
How do I find the “right” Jesus?
You need to seek him.
And so the Evangelical circular reasoning continues.
The Bible is true because the Bible says it’s true.
If you seek Jesus, you will find him, the Good Book says.
Yet, millions and millions of people have sought him and come up empty.
Why is that?
If finding Jesus is the singular, most important thing a person can do, why does he make it impossible for people to find him?
Yes, impossible.
The Bible says that sinners are spiritually dead and cannot understand truth.
The “natural man understands not the things of God, and neither can he,” yet Spaniard VIII says we must seek Jesus.
How can a man who has no understanding find anything, let alone Jesus?
The Calvinist says that only the elect, those chosen by God from before the foundation of the world, can seek Jesus and find him. All others need not apply.
Maybe we are apostates or reprobates, people who have crossed the line of no return. We can’t seek Jesus, even if we want to.
So many contradictory statements in the Bible, yet Spaniard VIII has found the “right” Jesus, the “right way that leads to salvation and life eternal.
Are you seeking Jesus?
Have you found him?
I have! I have! I have!
Jesus is dead. His body lies buried in an unmarked grave somewhere on a hillside near Jerusalem.
All this seeking for a dead man?
I choose the living, not the dead.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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This dude again?
as usual Span lies. Christians do love to do the victim blaming when their god doesn’t do a damn thing.
The divine superpower of omnipresence is totally made up. (I will explain.)
The god of the Bible is both all-knowing and all-powerful. So, does he need to be in your house to hear what you have to say? No. He already knows what you have said and you will say. Does ne need to be anywhere near anything to exert his power? Since he created the entire fricking universe from wherever he was, clearly he doesn’t need to be anywhere to exert his power.
So, why do we attribute the power to this god of being everywhere all of the time, when it clearly is not needed? (It also undermines having to go someplace, like a church building, to have him hear you.) The reason is having a supernatural eavesdropper is a tool to control the behavior of church members, a human tool to control human behavior. Ask anyone who had lived in a closed society (East Germany, North Korea, the Hamptons, etc.). You never say anything you don’t want reported because you never know who is listening in.
And, gosh, (gosh is a truncation of the exclamation “land of Goshen” a Biblically-cleansed exclamation) if this superpower was invented by human beings, I wonder about the rest of those powers.
Steve, this is where my belief in the Christian god broke down. God is everywhere and knows everything, including what you need but you have to get down and BEG for it? Hmm, typing that out made me wonder if God is into BDSM.
Jesus is powerless yet turned stones into bread, etc.?
If a deity is truly omnipresent, why would you need to ask it to enter your “heart”? Wouldn’t it, by definition of omnipresence, already be there?