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In these cases I believe that God still reveals Himself to them through nature as it says in Romans 1:20 Maybe not by making a Bible appear out in the middle of the jungle, but somehow.
Way would Paul be preaching the gospel to the saved?
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God made sure people all over the world have a inter knowledge there is a God... He instilled that in them.. They are with out excuse...
With this I will leave you to your thoughts .. to go farther would derail the thread.. seems about every continent has a story of a flood..
Gen_7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
My question is does everyone have a chance at some time in their life to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior? Does the Holy Spirit reveal to people that Jesus is the one and only and they either choose to accept or reject him? I don't think that some people just get it intellectually and others don't. Many of the people that we witness to say that they don't believe in God because they don't see the evidence for his existence, or that there may be a god just not the one in the Bible and sometimes in a different god altogether. So if someone has had the knowledge of God revealed to them but tell you they don't believe, are they actually saying that they don't want to commit their life to the Lord at least at that point in time?
Only one of those stories points to the God of Israel. How would anyone know that unless they were told? God can't realistically expect people to make that connection. It's just not possible.
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Not sure I understand your point, Gary.
My question is does everyone have a chance at some time in their life to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior? Does the Holy Spirit reveal to people that Jesus is the one and only and they either choose to accept or reject him? I don't think that some people just get it intellectually and others don't. Many of the people that we witness to say that they don't believe in God because they don't see the evidence for his existence, or that there may be a god just not the one in the Bible and sometimes in a different god altogether. So if someone has had the knowledge of God revealed to them but tell you they don't believe, are they actually saying that they don't want to commit their life to the Lord at least at that point in time?
Sounds like this person has faith but in the wrong place.When I started the thread I was mainly thinking about people who have heard the Gospel, access to the Bible,etc... I had recently had a chance to witness to some people and listen to the reasons why they don't believe in Jesus. Most of them were agnostic and not atheist. They had doubts about whether certain parts of the Bible were true or not. A friend of mine that is agnostic says he "questions everything" when it comes to the Bible and religion in general. Guess what he does believe to be true.....Aliens...he has so many doubts about the Bible but, believes that all our advanced technology was given to us by aliens and that certain people in the government are really super intelligent aliens that have taken on the form of a human. What is interesting is that he admits that he has no proof that his alien theories are true either.
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God made sure people all over the world have a inter knowledge there is a God... He instilled that in them.. They are with out excuse...