Nice out.
However, what of those who have been there and left because they disagreed with it?
But what did you expereince , a form of godliness without expereincing the power and demonstration of God.
You may have only had a relgion of dogma ,doctrine and rules,but did you receive the Holy Spirit ,the power and demonstration of God's power that converts ,which again is the Holy Spirit
Aww, but the problem lies with your claiming it to be the ONLY truth and expecting others to merely take your word for it.
I'm sorry ,but I will mention to others it is the truth, but it is up to God to reveal it as the only truth to those who come to him in repentance and brokenness.
Paul says that in Cor
1Cr 2:4 And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
But human rationale,pride ,arroagnce and ego have always come between God and man and always will.
It seems in my expereince talking with people on the street or hospitals ,that many tend to forsake their preconcieved notions and doubts when life has struck them or those close to them with tradgedy ,sickness,death etc.
If any so called Christians try to convert or convince you by mere logic that God is truth ,he is a fool, it is their responsibility to declare it as truth , and God's to reveal it as truth.
Skeptics often make it seem like it's truth because we say it is .
At least with me, I just present it and if the person chooses to explore it and call on and receive Christ ,his Holy Spirit wil reveal the truth BY POWER AND DEMONSTRATION
Rather difficult to convince those who are not a part of your choir to accept what you say when you are so busy presenting irrational/illogical excuses to explain why they disagree.
As in Jesus day ,so it is today, that many claims are made as to the reality of a God ,judgment day ,sin ,salvation etc ,people either accept it or reject it, what you do with the information and knowledge you receive everyday from all aspects of life,you will be responsible for,not the one who delivered it.
I find it rather comical to hear people of religion claiming that their particular religion is not a religion.
That is because you don't assimilate the relationship to God that a born again Christian has with God ,compared to the religious people today and in Jesus' day who had merely an external pious form of Godliness through their self imposed practices and traditional practices,but never connected with God through his spirit
For that Jesus, exposed them and said ,depart from me, I never knew you.
Religion is of more an association or union to a particular,tradition, denomination practice, ritual in hopes to gain God's acceptance and appraoval,than it is to a god.
Christianity is based on a personal encounter with God through receiving what he has done for us ,(relationship)not what we can do to for him through religion.
But people in the secular community need to associate Christianity as being a relgion ,so that's what we have. But in reality we have a personal living relationship to God through Jesus. BIG DIFFERENCE!!
Jesus was very expressive of that to the high ruling relgious leaders of his time,where he exposed them for being externally clean ,but dead inside,there was a difference and it's called relationship ,intimacy with God ,as hard as that may be to comprehend.
What I am saying is, there is relationship with God where God reaches down and intervenes with his poeple personally and there is what is widely known as relgion, that is, man trying earnestly to reach for God through self imposed practices ,rituals rules and man made ordinances.
Relationship goes above and beyond religion
My question is why do those who are convinced that their particular holy words are from God seem to think that by default no other holy words could come from God
The Holy Spirit of God reveals to born again Christians what is truth and what is false and that does not mean we throw it in people's faces , or expect you to believe it, it is a personal revelation.
Also whatever is contrary to sound doctrine, referring to scriptures.
But again I won't tell you your wrong ,that is up to you to discover.
But that is what we beleive ,not just intellectually ,but the Holy Spirit confirms it.