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Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
Gotta ask why. Even if it's, as you say, an invention. I used to be an atheist for various reasons. First, I couldn't figure "God" out. Where was He? Why do we die? (I had no big question about why cockroaches, lions, tigers, etc. die. Only why do 'we' die, quite frankly.)Well we do not even know if a God exists or not.. Right now it appears that God is a human invention.
It took me a while to weigh things out after I began studying and examining the Bible. It's almost like crossing the Red Sea -- a rather momentous and challenging occurrence. You probably don't believe that either, I am not going to argue whether it happened or not. I have faith it did happen. I know you probably think it's silly, but I have reasoned it out as too specific for it to have been a fantasy. I have decided that while I do not understand everything in the Bible (and no one now does), life is too precious to think and believe it just happened by chance. And I find the Bible the most believable of all the documents or testimony. Does that mean I understand everything? (you can rightly figure, no, I don't.)
Thank you for the conversation, and while I know you don't believe in God now, may He bless you.