SkinWalker said:
It's funny how "messages from god" become more and more obscure and vague in direct proportion to the technology and advancements of society.
When only a few, elite people possessed the technology of writing and the ability to record an event was limited to anecdote alone, the Judeo-Christian god spoke directly to his/her cult followers. Now, in an era of cameras on every cell phone, voice-recorders, and methods of measuring most observed events, god only speaks to those we are least likely to listen to anecdotes from.
Speaking to god is considered prayer. When god speaks to you, it's schizophrenia.
The problem you have is your perception of Christians is distorted by Christians. God doesn't agree with religious people. Does he hate them? Maybe, but I don't claim to know what goes through a mind of a being who created the universe. I don't like "Christians" because they give the term "Christian" a bad name. Corinthians and Romans talks about these "Christians"
"Christians" put God in their own box to their own level of understanding. They want to believe that things like Haley's comet is a sign from God. Who knows, I don't care really. Everything is relative with "Christians".
The one thing that I have found in my journey is that if you don't believe in God, you may as well kill yourself because sinning (ignoring everyone and everything but yourself) day in and day out is pointless to eternity, and doing good is pointless to eternity. Everything will pass away and we forget the works of good men who were our fore fathers, just as I will be forgotten.
So, if you are going to believe in a god, then the God of Abraham is THE God because it is the ONLY one that is the least poppycock with circumstantial evidence that it is the truth. It is the ONLY ancient belief today that was not made in the last few hundred years. It is the ONLY belief where one could have a good (even if controversial) argument that every prophecy told has come to pass.
So, we are left with the choice. Do we believe or not. Do we follow God or not. That has always been the choice for milleniums.
If we choose to believe and there is a God, we have everything to gain.
If we choose to believe and there is no God, we have lived a great life that will echo an eternity.
If we choose not to believe and there is a God, we have everything to lose.
If we choose not to believe and there is no God, who cares (we are dead anyway).
So, the best choice is to believe in the most evident religion, in the hopes that it is true. That is the beginnings of having faith.
I find it ironically exciting to see that the more someone tries to disprove Christianity, the more they find the truth in it.
I sought the truth and I found it by looking for evidence to disprove the existence of God. It was not an easy road afterwards, but I follow God today. I am a screwup and a sinner, but I know I am and I want to do better for the good of God and mankind.