In Reply to: Re: atheists and agnostics posted by kindagentler on January 19, 2004 at 17:36:49:
I can relate to that. I considered myself agnostic because I had decided that God didn't exist. To me it avoiding the whole subject made sense. Later on, when I discovered the richness of the spiritual journey, I also realized that my spirit had been alive and well in spite of my personal position.
I have tried to reconcile this with the salvation prayer I learned in TF along with John 3 and all I can think is that What is born of the spirit is spirit, that being born of the spirit is through God's will. It seems to me that such little prayer was pointless in my case and it raises the question, how could this be? Was I just one of those who were supposed to received Him, which were (are) born not of the will of man but of God? Is this some sort of predestination? By the same token, maybe some are not predestined and eternal damnation follows...
Man! Is this arrogance!?