| Jay520 said:
So what you are saying is this: Everyone who accepts love is a theist, even if they don't recognize that love is God? Self-proclaimed atheists are actually theists so long as they accept love. That's one of the wilder claims I've heard, but okay. |
I don't care if it's wilder, it's the only one that makes sense. There is only one thing God can be, and that's love. You know why? Because love is the most powerful thing known to man. If can break walls, it can restore homes, it can bring joy and happiness to people more than anything else in the world. The love I'm talking about is the one rooted in total unconditional love for a person no matter who are what they've done.
Everyone will be touched by this love, but the belief is that ultimately some will accept it and some won't, preferring to bathe in death. (death being everything that the evil one lives for, such as corruption, hate, immorality, lust, deceit, and much more).
One day, everyone will have the chance to recognize this love for who and what it is. The choice will be fully theirs. Imho that's the only way to interpret the christian doctrine.
You don't believe the bible, but if we're going to talk about God, might as well open the book.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2%3A1-6&version=NKJV
The holy spirit restrains the evil one and is active in the world. That is a testimony to all living beings today.
Also
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romains+1%3A20-21&version=NKJV
God witnesses through creation.
There is also the witness of the apostles (those crazy evangelists, you know). And lastly, this verse:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A11&version=NIV
One day, no matter who you are, no matter your belief, one day every tongue will confess willingly or reluctantly that Jesus is the one true God. Why? Because when you really sit down to think about it, it really is the only logical conclusion. We have a maker, he is good, he died to redeem us, he is meek, he asks us to love one another, how does it not make sense? I realize we can debate forever, but really bottom line is that every human soul on this planet will have seen the fingerprints of God in their lives, and they will make a voluntary choice to say "Yes I want you", or "No, I don't want you".
I wish I could be nicer in explaining this but it is like rock solid in my mind so it's hard for me not to be strong-minded about it.
