I like being here to express what I know all mankind needs, and I think I can help you, but on the other hand I do feel like the freed prisoner returning from viewing the sun, going back into the cave in order to help free you. It is incumbent upon me to do so. I must put myself in your shoes to see where you separate yourself from God. I must see how you visualize those shadows on the cave wall, and how you interpret them. Because it is therein I can help you see how the chains can be taken off of you. To be released from the chains in the cave of the limited world sinners know, a leap of faith is required at some point. No matter how good the evidence for God in the shadows, the choice is still before you yet to choose. If the choice meets the condition in your heart of hearts required by God, you shall be saved. God has already placed that desire in your heart, but you must activate it. I call this the "activating the free gift of faith" already stored in you by being made in God's image.
If I am created and I don't have the power to condemn anyone to hell, then I don't condemn you to hell, but merely impart what God's Word says, that hell is needed for the resurrected-unsaved to separate you from those who do want a relationship with Jesus.
Where few would likely give you the time of day, my time is for you to show you that Christ is the answer and always has been. I would rather go broke than see you unsaved.
Is it not true in antiquity that Christianity is more well documented than any historical records? So we do know something about it wouldn't you say? For example, if 95 to 99.9% of scholars say there is some things we can be certain about such as Paul really believing and really wrote Gal. 1 & 2, 1 Cor. 15, then shouldn't we take a look at what he said and see where that takes us? Can we at least not come halfway on this point? After all these were real people writing their real experiences, not intended to be fictional stories as popular fiction is today.
If the Word of God is and God created the universe, then doesn't it affect you? even if you deny that it would.
With regard to other religions is there not the problem of contradictions? not only because Jesus said the only way to be saved was through Him, but because other religions teach things that are so opposite to one another surely they could not both be true. Take for example Buddhism and Hinduism. These religions say you could come back as an animal and receive an eternity of reincarnations, but if so, then how is sin ever really dealt with and does not this violate what we observe practically in society which is an exponential progression of conscience? This disallows an eternity of reincarnations. Morever, these religions don't mention an uncreated creator, but they have many gods. Step 4 of the Proof disallows this remember, because you would not still be sinning by now if there was an eternity of the past of gods creating gods from which you would be derived from.
And Islam says Jesus never died on the cross, yet all the documentation we have is His death, so how does Islamic faith have any credibility to alter the Word over 6 centuries later? If nobody mentions Jesus did not die in the first two centuries, then does some writer six centuries later all alone in a cave by himself seeing shadows on a wall have any basis for saying otherwise?
Step back for a moment and ask yourself if there is a God, would He not reveal Himself in creation? Would He not at some point enter into His creation to deal with the sin problem? Should we be prejudiced to Him because He chose a particular century in which to do so and first reveal Himself to a particular nation that was in slavery longer than any other for over 430 years? Perhaps they would be more willing to listen and to impart His will for a time before He entered into creation.
Some things to think about.
