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  03-01 “I Will Answer ALL Your Questions.” 03-02 The Will of the Flesh and the Will of Man 03-03 Self-will and Strong Will 03-04 The Danger of Liberty 03-05 A Chastened Man 03-06 Reconciled 03-07 “Reconciled” Response 03-08 “Reconciled” Response 03-09 One Way 03-10 “One Way” Response 03-11 A Checklist For Staying Free 03-12 Everything Jesus Is 03-13 Becoming An Unbeliever 03-14 We Cannot Even Love God 03-15 Seeing The Father 03-16 “You Are Still A Proud People” 03-17 'You Are Still A Proud People: Response 03-18 No More Church 03-19 “Church” 03-20 Because God Did Not Reveal The Truth 03-21 The Death Penalty 03-22 False Teachers 03-23 Leave The Saving To God 03-24 “That They Might Be Damned” 03-25 “A New And Living Way” 03-26 “Hard To Understand”? 03-27 Saving Love 03-28 With What God Is 03-29 Loving The Feelings 03-30 True Fasting 03-31 God Is Humbler Than Man

 

Thought for the Morning
3-13

Becoming An Unbeliever

Pastor John:

Am I correct in saying that God does not believe in anything? Is there any scripture that refers to God believing in something? According to Webster’s, the definition of “believe” is “to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.” Everything about God is absolute so it seems to me that God is not capable of having belief in anything. He already has absolute knowledge of all things in existence. He is beyond belief or believing.

Perhaps the Torah has scriptures that refer to God believing in something. I’ve never read it to know one way or the other. Guess I’m free to believe whatever I want to about its content until I read it. :) I’m sure glad about the things of God I know and no longer have to believe. I look forward to believing less and less about the things of God as time goes on.

Bob

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Hi Bob:

You have read the Torah and studied it very well. “Torah” is how Jews refer to the five books of Moses (Genesis through Deuteronomy). And when you studied the Torah (in my OT classes), you did not see anything in there about God believing anything. He doesn’t.

As far as your last comment goes, I guess one could say that the ultimate aim of a believer is to cease being one, huh?

jdc