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By Greg Vanden Berge 10/5/2011
It's easy; just
make a choice to love God. There are plenty of questions that can be
answered and some that cannot. When it comes to religion, you can
answer as many questions as you want to, simply by using your emotions
or beliefs.
I prayed for
something last night and received it.
This is a vague
statement and really isn't much different, than the title of this
article. There’s more than one answer, to both of these questions and
believe it or not, it would be extremely difficult, to provide any
rational evidence, to support most answers.
Anyone can say
anything, about something and then make someone else, believe it. We do
it all the time, even though we shouldn't. The statement,” I love God
with all my heart” is no different than saying I love nature, I love my
friends or I love to eat ice cream, unless you can validate the
experience.
This is where the
test comes in, even though most religious people wouldn't contemplate
this experience. The moment they tested God and their experiments
failed, they would be faced with a horrible thought.
Do I continue
believing in God or trust the results, of our experiment?
If you prayed for
love and feel like you received it, how would you ever know for sure,
where it came from?
If you prayed for
$100 million dollars and received it and then prayed to end worldwide
starvation and your prayers were answered, now we’re getting somewhere.
This is something that we can sink our teeth into, because we could use
events like these, to validate our prayers.
We would have
tangible results and we could continue to pray for things and receive
them. There's a big difference between praying for emotional items and
things we can physically touch or witness.
So when you ask,”
How does one love God with all his heart soul and mind,” the answer is
simple, how ever you want to. You just tell everyone that you are and
that's just the way it is.
You simply make a
choice to believe you’re loving God with all of your heart, soul and
mind, because there isn't one rational individual, who would ever
question you.
They can't, because
it's an illusion you're creating in your mind, not a reality based off
of something tangible. However, there are plenty of people who will
share their opinions, but that's about it, unless they can be
validated.
Anyone who provides
you with a formula or method, on how to love God, with all of your heart
is probably blowing smoke, up your bottom. Let me guess, they're going
to support their methods, with Bible verses.
This is all fine
and dandy as long as they can validate the Bible verses or any
information they’re using, to support any claims that you're making.
Are they going to
provide you with an exact method to follow that leaves no room for
rational doubt and works on everyone?
If there isn't a
way to validate something, then it will remain a belief, until it can be
validated.
If there is more
than one way to answer a question that cannot be validated, then you
aren't answering the question and it will remain a belief.
Don't let anyone
tell you how to love God, unless they can rationally validate the
existence of God and their methods. Religious people need to use their
minds and start asking questions, rather than accepting everything they
hear, like it's coming from God.
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