I guess I’d have to tell Penn the way I really, finally KNEW that the Bible is right, there is an afterlife and Jesus is Lord and Saviour.
I simply read up on what happened to the Apostles. Their deaths. All but one were killed in horrible ways and could have stopped it, saved their own lives by denouncing Jesus and admitting it was all a fraud. Now, you torture me and I WILL tell you where my wife hides the egg money. I’ll tell you anything to make it stop.
Not those men. They wouldn’t denounce Jesus. They wouldn’t say that His ministry was a fraud. Even knowing that they were going to be tortured to death, they would not turn their backs on Christ.
Now as a former cop, I see that kind of dedication, that loyalty and it says to me that these men believe Him and they WALKED with him. The technology did not exist at the time to fake all that stuff. Jesus is real, Jesus is the Son of God and He is coming back.
That’s how I came to my faith. More of an investigatory way, rather than an emotional way. I wonder if anyone has ever tried that tack with Mr. Gillette.
during wars men walk into whitering fire because they felt the need to protect their ‘Brothers’ or ‘Defend their Country’...here in America they are given the Congressional Medal of Honor.
it is called Uncommon Valor.
I do not think I have Uncommon Valor....but I have never been tested in that way and I am happy that I have not been so tested...
so what does Uncommon Valor have in proving your point about FAITH. I for one do not see it.
That’s the similar way that I came to faith.