Funny you wrote about Job, that's the book I was just reading. Personally, I thank obama for motivating a return to my seeker's ways. He may have indirectly saved me by screwing things up so badly.
I posted the following on the thread about famous atheist/former atheist Antony Flew, but it might be better posted here.
As for evidence, you cite a lot of the most recent science, yet you remark that your discovery of the Divine did not come through "experiments and equations," but rather, "through an understanding of the structures they unveil and map."
Yep, this has been my path as well. In trying to understand the physical world and the rules by which it operates, I was lead to the Designer who built it and wrote the operating system.
The last book I read, "Heaven is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back" and current book I'm reading, "Heaven is Real, But So is Hell" have given me the answers I've been looking for to prove the truth of their titles.
And, both have more than lived up to their titles. After all I've learned through study and experience, I am 100% convinced of the reality of Heaven, Hell and the wonders and the consequences laid out in the Bible.
It's absolutely real. And we are almost out of time.
Flew is lucky to have found the truth before it was too late. I found way more than I wanted to know about what happens to atheists, and everyone else who turns away, by reading "My Descent into Death: A Second Chance at Life".
Parts of Howard Storm's experience still shake me when I think about them. I think that at some level I know his experience was real and awaits me, too. It waits for all of us who take that path.
What I read in Vassula Rydén's book tells me that we really don't want to experience the consequences our behavior has earned for us.
I've been wondering when it would hit His fan and apparently we won't have long to wait. We've pushed all of His buttons and have just about used up our Grace period to return to Him and His Mercy.
Next comes His Justice...did I mention how very, very unhappy He is with us? Time is running out...
One speculates at great risk that “almost all” God’s patience is gone... at least with respect to anybody else. I can’t tell anybody that. What I can tell them, however, is that if they are not earnest about getting on God’s rocket ship, then the devil’s rocket ship that they are riding (with its way stations of flesh and world) IS going to carry them to a hell that was architected for the sake of demons, not men, but men can go there if they will not grasp God’s saving hand.
I have the same sense. This generation is a foolish one...