I just had to chime in and as they say put my two cents in.
I just had to tell this club.. They sure don't know what there missing. Seek and you shall find...We need to pray for the Lord to bring a great spiritual awakening to them. For once I was blind but now I see. Praise God!
Unless the Holy Spirit enables belief in someone who does not yet believe they obviously can't and won't believe. The apostle Paul addresses this in Ephesians 2:1-10. There he tells us even "faith" is a gift of God! Check it out and ask yourself what someone who is "dead in their trespasses and sins" can do...apart from the "gift of God".
People will try to justify their unbelief with saying things like well if there is a God why is there so much pain, war, destruction and poverty. Liken it to going to a dentist, and then saying I don't believe in dentists. If Dentist's exist then why are there so many people with rotten teeth? The answer is quite simple...according to the dentist he can't help it if people don't come to him to get their teeth worked on. It's the same way with God, he can't help anyone who doesn't come to Him when they insist on doing things their own way. The beauty of it is that He gives us that choice and he doesn't force us. If we come to believe in Him it is our gift from Him.
Tes
