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Originally Posted by helen lovely
Your life must be very empty life if you believe in nothing. Something tragic will have to happen to make you realize that there is a beyond & a tomorrow that many of us are striving to qualify for constantly. How can you go through life believing that this is it?
"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. Do yourself a big favor & read the book.
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There are some places in scripture where tragedy causes a person to believe, such as Paul's conversion. Most of the time people became believers because they saw miracles of love when people were healed, fed, raised from the dead, protected from "religious" people who wanted to punish them, and so on.
IMO no intellectual gets converted by threats that God will punish them. The good news is that God is love, and He wants to bridge the gap a brilliant mind can create-- faith is the substance that goes in that gap.