You reason well

Submitted by kman (United States), Nov 17, 2008 at 20:13

You are a man who recognizes sound reasoning but, has no capacity to see the whole viewpoint. You, inspite of your place of birth, learned to reason. Unfortunately your surroundings were extremely limiting.

I was raised, somewhat, in a Christian church. I saw the emptiness and hypocrisy. I bailed and became a stauch atheist at age 15. I live in a free nation where anyone is able to present "their" religion in whatever way they want. History was truthfully presented from all viewpoints. I learned to detect falsehoods, lies, and distortions. Later, at age about 27-28, God stepped in and presented me to a carefully laid ambush. A man that used to be the same atheist as I was had God tap him on the heart.

I got "tapped" and, fifteen minutes later God poured into me. Full blown and perfectly pure "Spirit". In the same moment, he delivered the thought with joy that "I need to get a _". I will let you fill in the blank. I deliver this post to you alone because, you are the only Muslim I have encountered who could deliver logical thought.

I rarely bring scripture out from the Book God presented to me. God made me different so that people would see not only the perfect truth and sense of his word but, his perfect logic, also. I can quote scripture but, God chose me to use logic most of the time. The full and complete God can argue his truth from any angle. He is whole God who is perfect and powerful in every realm.

Before ever buying into any "religion", I investigated all the major ones including Christianity and Islam. I came up with a shallow understanding that further drove me into my strong atheism.

God, again, found a worthless human being who fessed up to his own "worthlessness". Great, fertile ground unspoiled by man's religions and prejudices. It WAS one of those religions but, I was blind until He opened my eyes. I paid a big price for being clueless nevertheless, He got me there.

Islam, as I had always observed, powerfully leaned on their citizenry. They used a gun, sword, or hangman's noose to force subjection. The threat of death in Islamic countries is always imminent.

Mine and many others' God delivered truth, integrity, and love. He said that none of us are deserving of anything but death. He said he valued those who recognized the real value of a real God and gave them some tough choices. You could opt to "opt out". God recognizes "value" in those humans who choose him for the right reasons. One of the gifts he gave the human race was "free choice".

The Muslim god chose to withdraw that. Here, if you don't buy into it, you will pay hard. Do not look at other "religions" and do not question anything your leaders who are appointed by those who grew up in the same narrow field of historical venue. Do not look at any other history. Become involved in your new countries and establish political dominance and then subject that same population to the same ignorance you raised in. In the latter place you will now find Great Britain that has bowed its educational system to totally blot out any mention of the holocaust that the Muslim world allied itself to. Its single minded heart to hate with all its ability to hate, those, that, God chose at one time is very telling. My God doesn't allow me to hate anyone by race, culture, language, or nation.

Satan has always been far more clever and aware than man. He was never witheld from an awareness of all creation because, he was never limited by that thing we humans take so much pride in - that would be that highly worshipped organism that exists bewteen our ears. When God makes a human aware of who he is, he doesn't hold a gun, bomb, or sword to his head. He tells us who he is and then gives us the option of bailing out or climbing in. That is where a true God finds value - choice made from free will - not at the point of a gun or a penis. At the end of "life" God sorts the "wheat" from the "chaff". He is all powerful but, has chosen to withold his revenge/punishment until you have had every choice that life delivers up to you. You have a lifetime to be either drawn by love, truth, and moral value, or, to choose not.

Some think that God is only available to small segments of the earth's population. That's wrong. God knows the heart of every human who has ever existed. If he finds something of value - within the fields of love, moral value, and truth, he in turn is drawn. Any human can be withdrawn from his current nation, culture, or language to a place where God is at. God also, takes people from right where they are at. I know of many Muslims who are deep into Islam and live in Muslim countries to whom God himself steps forth and tells them who he is.

I have tried to carefully present this God without naming him to see what draws "You".

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