By Your Own Words, Disbelief is Your Own Witness As To Why There is No Understanding

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Aug 20, 2008 at 18:14

You once wrote that there was fear that you might fail in your belief in the Quran. You also wrote that you wished you could understand why it is that the faith this reader has in Jesus Christ is as real and valid as it can be, that there is not a shadow of doubt in His abilities to perform His promises, though as a sinner (saved by His grace), my flesh struggles with the commandment to be true to Him. He will win it all, of that I am certain.

It is written in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures that those who do not believe will shake their heads in their disbelief, so even in your inability to understand, you still follow His Word about human nature. Why do think that is? It is because as many time as someone has tried to discredit the Holy Bible with the unfounded accusations of inaccuracy, the Holy Bible stands the test of time.

This is not done by following human standards embroiled in the whimsies of unbelieving philosophies, but by seeking out truth in each and every human being and providing the chance to believe against all human logic meant to discourage belief in Jesus Christ. In the contrary,each person is given the one free moral choice to accept the truth about themselves and open the heart to see that Jesus Christ IS Who He says He is, and that the Holy Bible is the only place where the truth about Jesus Christ can be found.

The reality of Jesus Christ is found in the most simple explanation as this; which human thinking individual would have been able to reveal the testimony of Jesus Christ in a way most everyone (who is not a believer) thinks is humanly illogical. It is why believing in the Holy Bible is necessary to discern His truth and to have a place to allow the Holy Spirit access to the heart. Unless one opens the heart to His truth, all one will be able to do is 'shake my head in disbelief.'

In another post, you have indicated your contentment in what you believe, and for the moment it seems that is enough for you to assume that posture as you try and ridicule the Christian faith. Since the power behind true Christian faith has the spiritual power to to remain true to the believer as the believer remains true to Jesus Christ, it is only a matter of each person to derive their level of comfort in what they believe. For the true disciple of Jesus Christ, He provides the assurance and confidence of faith in Him; it cannot come from the believer, for Jesus Christ Himself is the power.

You may shake your head in disbelief, but it is the heart of Jesus Christ, who saw you from the cross through eternity, and as He was dying on the cross, saw your despair for unbelief. When He died on the cross, the eternal hope is that you may see past the human philosophies that cause the unbelief, feel His love for you that He felt on the cross and feels still, and realize that even the people of that day who watched Him die, shook their heads in disbelief, AS IT HAPPENED. How might one think about what Jesus felt as they turned away? What might one think Jesus Christ feels now as people turn away from Him now?

Mercy is still available now, before anyone draws a last breath and can still call upon Jesus Christ for salvation. Golgotha still stands in mute testimony to His death on the cross. No tomb is found fro Jesus Christ because of His resurrection. No human logic is going to be able to explain any of it, requiring faith in Jesus Christ to gain Biblical understanding of it all.

You shake your head in disbelief. If you really want understanding, you must open you heart to Jesus Christ to see Him as He really is, or you will enter into the afterlife shaking your head still, for not having had the faith to understand.

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