Where to Find Truth in a Corrupt World

One of the most common types of answers regarding God questions is “Well I don’t believe that”  or “I don’t believe there is a God” or “If God loves us no one would suffer” and so on.  It’s as if by saying I don’t believe something that this actually makes it untrue.  And if it’s untrue why would I believe it.  Great reasoning. 

I remember when I was an atheist I used those kinds of excuses as well.  And that justified it for me until someone said to me “Gee you talk against the Bible so much have you ever read it?”  When I said not really they said “So how do you know what you are talking about?”  And I remember like it was yesterday… They Got Me.  What could I say.  So I decided to read it to give myself more ammunition to argue with.  Then I would be able to back up what I said. 

But a strange thing happened when I started to read it.  I found that I could neither prove or disprove it.  All I could do is accept it or deny it.  And deny it was what I had been doing for years.  But that didn’t mean that it wasn’t true, it just meant that I didn’t think it was true.  The more I read about Jesus, the more I started to related to him.  I agreed with many things he said, I saw that he really cared about people, that he really wanted to help them.  So I began to see that he was not evil but good and that he wasn’t against us, he was for us.  So I didn’t have to get my defenses up because he wasn’t threatening to me.  He wanted me to be his friend and he wanted to be mine.  Well this sure threw me for a loop because he was not what I thought he was.  

This went up and down for a few years, sometimes I got back on my “I don’t believe it” rant and other times I kind of did until one day I was laying in bed thinking about all this and I said “Ok God I give up.  Take me I’m yours”  This is exactly what I said.  And this was the start of the most incredible journey of my life which has continued until today.  I had found a world within a world.  I started going to church, reading my Bible, and talking with God every day.  And my life changed.  Dramatically.  And the only thing I regret about the whole thing is that I didn’t do it much sooner.  So if you are one of those people who deny God like I was, try reading about Jesus in the New Testament and see what you think.  You may be surprised.  And it just might be exactly what you were always looking for but didn’t know it.