Feels like coming home

You know sometimes when you hear christian apologist arguments it seems that they are trying to convince people that honestly do not believe there is a God that there is in fact one.  Sorry Emily, I know that was a very wordy sentence.  I love you.  Anyway, one day maybe I will be able to be more concise.  My point is this...Every single human being knows that there is a God.  As I've heard preachers say 'in your heart of hearts you know.'  That is not an oversimplification of a complex matter.  It is just as true as every other line in Scripture that we all as christians hold to.  Every coherent man and woman knows that there is a God.  Forgive me for being brutally honest here,but it has been too long since I have studied my Bible.  Today I opened up and read the first couple of chapters of Romans.  Listen to this........"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them."  (Romans 1: 18-19) 

It goes on to explain how He has shown it to them, but that last statement is enough to see that God has shown all people that He is here.  If I am reading this right, this means everyone.  Chapter 2 explains how gentiles, (that is everyone who were not jews at that time and now) have this knowledge as well even without the law.  Paul through God's inspiration is arguing that even those who have not heard of the God of the Bible know that there is a God.  

In the verses quoted above he says that men suppress the truth by their unrighteousness.  The truth is there but they don't like it, so they press it down deeper and deeper and harden their hearts more and more.  The opposite could be true: that is that they could acknowledge the truth and seek God and He would give them the light they need to come to the gospel.  

I don't want to get away from my main point.  When you tell someone, when hopefully I tell someone here in the next few days about Jesus, we need not worry that they genuinely do not believe there is a God.  They know He exists.  You do not have to worry about that.  As you begin to tell them they will either begin to be drawn to the message and feel like they are coming back home to their wonderful Father that they knew was there all along but didn't want to be with, or they will harden their heart to the God that they know exists but don't want to follow.  Now I do believe christian apologetics have their place.  Sometimes we need to be re-taught the things we already know, and so many lies are flying around us all the time it is good for christian scientists to prove what we already know.  It is true we all know it.  Whether we only know Him as a Being that is out there or as our Heavenly Father, He is here.

I'll leave you with these verses.

Thanks, 

Ryan

"For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.  So they are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their hearts were darkened.  Claming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles."  (Romans 1:20-23)