Why I Have Faith

[th1bill]

I was born into this world just before WW II ended and, like so many of the Baby Boomers, I was not raised as a Christ Believer. I, therefore, self professed myself to be an Atheist.

Faith, now there is a little understood and much misused English Word. Since I am no longer self-mobile, I am found to be lying in my Adjustable Bed, Mechanized Recliner Chair or my Self Propelled Wheel-Chair. If I had no Faith in our Heavenly Father, my life, like every other Human Life on this Earth, is a life filled with, largely, Unclassified Faith.

Being a Master Carpenter, Tradesman, Woodworking Hobbiest, I have built everything from Flying, CL, FF, & RC, Wood Airplanes to Homes and Apartment Complexes. In these endeavors, I worked from Self Built Scaffolding, constructed from Pine 2x4s supporting anything from 2, 2x6 to 2x12 Yellow Pine Scaffolding.

I admit to being a bit of an extremist, after all, during my three Volunteer Tours of Combat Duty, it was not uncommon to find my feet on the rear of the Left Skid of my UH-1H as I and our Gunner, on the other side, talked the Pilot or/and Copilot down into the Triple Covered Jungle to keep our Tail Rotor out of the limbs reaching out for that little lifesaver/killer.

My Pilots, most, were often 19 year old High School Graduates that had just completed their Warrant Officer and Flight School Training. They were Dumb Kids with the hearts of Lions and forever have my, most, earnest respect.

Me, I was the 23 and 24-year-old man some called Pop and before Yashua ha'Mashiah spoke to me, with and without my guitar I lived my complete life on one form of faith or another.

With all this truth, so many attack this position that is experientually gained. And yet, on examination, they life by faith that God is not.

 

[Born Again 2004]

I was born into this world just before WW II ended and, like so many of the Baby Boomers, I was not raised as a Christ Believer. I, therefore, self professed myself to be an Atheist.

Faith, now there is a little understood and much misused English Word. Since I am no longer self-mobile, I am found to be lying in my Adjustable Bed, Mechanized Recliner Chair or my Self Propelled Wheel-Chair. If I had no Faith in our Heavenly Father, my life, like every other Human Life on this Earth, is a life filled with, largely, Unclassified Faith.

Being a Master Carpenter, Tradesman, Woodworking Hobbiest, I have built everything from Flying, CL, FF, & RC, Wood Airplanes to Homes and Apartment Complexes. In these endeavors, I worked from Self Built Scaffolding, constructed from Pine 2x4s supporting anything from 2, 2x6 to 2x12 Yellow Pine Scaffolding.

I admit to being a bit of an extremist, after all, during my three Volunteer Tours of Combat Duty, it was not uncommon to find my feet on the rear of the Left Skid of my UH-1H as I and our Gunner, on the other side, talked the Pilot or/and Copilot down into the Triple Covered Jungle to keep our Tail Rotor out of the limbs reaching out for that little lifesaver/killer.

My Pilots, most, were often 19 year old High School Graduates that had just completed their Warrant Officer and Flight School Training. They were Dumb Kids with the hearts of Lions and forever have my, most, earnest respect.

Me, I was the 23 and 24-year-old man some called Pop and before Yashua ha'Mashiah spoke to me, with and without my guitar I lived my complete life on one form of faith or another.

With all this truth, so many attack this position that is experientually gained. And yet, on examination, they life by faith that God is not.

Not understanding how FAITH is a FREE gift of God...you appear to have none and therefore are an ATHEIST, I agree!
But, that can change before you die!!!

 

[th1bill]

Not understanding how FAITH is a FREE gift of God...you appear to have none and therefore are an ATHEIST, I agree!
But, that can change before you die!!!

We, humans, are the recipients of Faith, the moment we are conceived. I am a Friend and Follower of Yashua ha'Mashiah, a.k.a. Jesus, the Christ. If you mistakenly believe faith to have been purchased of earned by yourself, I will pray for Ruah to open the Holy Scriptures to your eyes, there is little else I can do for your lack of understanding.

 

[Born Again 2004]

We, humans, are the recipients of Faith, the moment we are conceived. I am a Friend and Follower of Yashua ha'Mashiah, a.k.a. Jesus, the Christ. If you mistakenly believe faith to have been purchased of earned by yourself, I will pray for Ruah to open the Holy Scriptures to your eyes, there is little else I can do for your lack of understanding.

Good Luck @th1bill , you'll need it!

 

[th1bill]

Good Luck @th1bill , you'll need it!

Never wish me good luck, there is no such thing and every person that truly fears The Master knows this is true. There is nothing in this Space/Time Continuum that does not or has not passed through the hands of YHWH. He does not cause Evil but does allow us to be tested by the Evil One, that Old Dragon.I wish you well and fruitful study.

 

[th1bill]

I had hoped this topic would not grow into a monolog because this is one issue that affects every Believer and Nonbeliever. I have been informed, more than a couple of times, that some people live without faith in anything and some without belief that there is a Supreme Being and some claim, thus, there cannot be any Faith.

That last one typifies the Extreme lack of Critical Thought Processes in the Brains of some individuals, and is the easiest to dispatch into La La Land. We have all sat on Wood Chairs to eat our meals from. Growing up in the Wards in Houston, I took a seat on what ever was available.

We sat on old chairs, boxes, and the floor to eat Beans and Rice. Once, we purchased a set of New Set of Pine Chairs. They were stained to look like Red Oak, and the Spindles and Legs were just as delicate appearing as the ones in the Red and White Oak Chairs.

I never noticed anyone examining the Pine Chairs, and when the legs worked loose, Dad dipped Match Sticks in Elmer's Glue and hammered them into the joints to repair the damage. We used the chairs for a couple of more years before they went to the curb.

People, family and visitors had faith in those spindly legs and believed they would hold their bodies from crashing to the floor. Most of the Lost World appears to be Atheists and, without conclusive evidence, they believe that from nothing, the Universes Sprang into being, complete with all the Complex Elements of Plant and Animal Life. And they believe these elements joined and mixed themselves... in exactly the correct proportions to produce Carbon Based life.

I, as a student, in Junior High, believed the Theories were fact because they were taught as such. They are Theories because they are this, or that group's IDEAS. They collectively agree that this or that is the best attempt to explain the presence of Human Life because there is so much contradictory evidence, and reasonable people will agree that this Time/Space Continuum must have had an engineer that can and does exist outside our Plane of Existence.

People that live, believing these theories, IDEAs, have so much more Faith than I.

 

[Born Again 2004]

I had hoped this topic would not grow into a monolog because this is one issue that affects every Believer and Nonbeliever. I have been informed, more than a couple of times, that some people live without faith in anything and some without belief that there is a Supreme Being and some claim, thus, there cannot be any Faith.

That last one typifies the Extreme lack of Critical Thought Processes in the Brains of some individuals, and is the easiest to dispatch into La La Land. We have all sat on Wood Chairs to eat our meals from. Growing up in the Wards in Houston, I took a seat on what ever was available.

We sat on old chairs, boxes, and the floor to eat Beans and Rice. Once, we purchased a set of New Set of Pine Chairs. They were stained to look like Red Oak, and the Spindles and Legs were just as delicate appearing as the ones in the Red and White Oak Chairs.

I never noticed anyone examining the Pine Chairs, and when the legs worked loose, Dad dipped Match Sticks in Elmer's Glue and hammered them into the joints to repair the damage. We used the chairs for a couple of more years before they went to the curb.

People, family and visitors had faith in those spindly legs and believed they would hold their bodies from crashing to the floor. Most of the Lost World appears to be Atheists and, without conclusive evidence, they believe that from nothing, the Universes Sprang into being, complete with all the Complex Elements of Plant and Animal Life. And they believe these elements joined and mixed themselves... in exactly the correct proportions to produce Carbon Based life.

I, as a student, in Junior High, believed the Theories were fact because they were taught as such. They are Theories because they are this, or that group's IDEAS. They collectively agree that this or that is the best attempt to explain the presence of Human Life because there is so much contradictory evidence, and reasonable people will agree that this Time/Space Continuum must have had an engineer that can and does exist outside our Plane of Existence.

People that live, believing these theories, IDEAs, have so much more Faith than I.

You come to this table , with your own ideas based on your own life experiences.

I too have my own ideas , based on my previous experiences and ,until recently, I would agree with you completely.

I am not and never have been one to be controlled by my situational experiences.
-but-
@ 17 yrs. ago I was transformed by "real life" experiences that ,after that , those same experiences still gives me the God given faith to go on,
The Bible gives me support but it is those experiences that is proof to that all about Jesus is real!!
I say unequocally, this is very real to me: He knocked, I opened and the rest is history!

 

[th1bill]

You come to this table , with your own ideas based on your own life experiences.

I too have my own ideas , based on my previous experiences and ,until recently, I would agree with you completely.

I am not and never have been one to be controlled by my situational experiences.
-but-
@ 17 yrs. ago I was transformed by "real life" experiences that ,after that , those same experiences still gives me the God given faith to go on,
The Bible gives me support but it is those experiences that is proof to that all about Jesus is real!!
I say unequocally, this is very real to me: He knocked, I opened and the rest is history!

Your Witness sounds much like mine. In Vietnam, we were attacked with Mortars and small Rockets, somewhere around 2 or three on the morning of 11/3/'66. I found my Best Friend blown into pieces and scattered, some outside that tent.

So it was that at about Seven AM, I, a Self Proclaimed and raised to be an Atheist, was watching the sky turn color as the Sun rose. I considered my fellow Texan, Paul E. Hienen, to be closer than my Brother, Joe. I looked at the sky and, with flooding tears I screamed out my anger at the God that I ¿did not believe in?

The very next moment I heard that still, quiet voice say, "Why curse me, you don't even believe?" As I examined that situation, I realized I had been Called of God and I, like a good soldier, I got very drunk, for years and ran from the God I knew to be alive and speaking.

Twenty-three years and a month later I was doing a One Man Gig in Porky's and the lady from the Houston Fat Stock Show ad Rodeo Association walked in the door and watched the show for the better part of that set. After I took to the Rest Room and sat down, ext to the stage, she cake over, sat down, and told a me that she could make me Nashville Star.

I watched her do that for Clint Black, wishing I was in his boots, so I knew who she was. I laughed at her words and without explanation, I told her she could not and sipped my Wild Turkey.

She walked over to the Bar Maid and after a few words took to a Bar Stool and observed as that little lady told me that she had been asked to explain who she was and that she was not, "Trying to get into my britches!"

I rolled with laughter and told her that I knew her from her work with Clint Black and that December the thirty-first was my last Gig because I was going to serve God. As she left, she stopped, hand on the door, looked at me, and shook her head.

I had chased that dream for better that twenty-five years but I had run from the Call of God on my life for better that twenty-three years and I wanted the Peace and Joy Unspeakable promised by Yashua ha'Mashiah.

I had purchased a copy of the KJV but, every time I tried to read it, it was gibberish. At midnight, on the thirty-first, Ruah filled my heart and I left the Cub with no pay check ad a bad reputation for not doing the last two sets.

I read the scriptures, they made sense to me and I began serving my LORD.

 

[Gregoryp]

Not all have the understanding of the word of God, they reject it. These are lovers of the world, so God has sent them a deception and now the world is under judgement. No amount of cajoling, arguing or reading the bible to them will ever give them faith. They simply done have it, many are called, few are chosen. And then there is the elect, which is not the conversation to have here.