What if I don't accept or reject God?
Q: "What if I don't accept God, but I don't reject him either? If I do not
say there is no God, but I don't confirm that he really exists?"
our A: Maybe it all depends on what you really know in your
heart to be true. In other
words, you could be before God someday and say,
"But I never knew that You existed!" And He might
well reply, "Yes, you did. I made sure you did. Deep
down in your heart, you knew that I existed. I know
because I put that knowledge there. Yet you
didn't want to know Me, so you refused to admit that
I exist. You ignored the information I gave you, but
it's there."
More than likely, we're accountable for what we know. The
real question then is what do we really know? How much
knowledge has God placed in our hearts? Whatever it
is, we're called to respond to it. And it's
possible that we know things that we'd rather not admit.
The Bible says that the human heart is deceitful
above all things (Jeremiah 17:9).
Your question seems to be, "What if I just ride the
fence and never make a decision?" That would be fine,
if you truly had no information to go on. But the
Bible says that God's existence is evidenced by the
complexity of the world around us,
and that we are therefore accountable for knowing
that He exists. For since the creation of the world
God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine
nature--have been clearly seen, being understood
from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)
And what if it's gone beyond that?
Many people have said that they sensed,
for years, God "knocking" on their hearts, as if
trying to gain access. If that is true for a person
(and God would know), then making no decision about
Him would be the same as rejecting Him. If He asks
to come into our lives/hearts, there is no middle ground.
Then there's also the person of Jesus Christ. This
man claimed to be God, performed miracles to back
up that claim, died for our sins, rose from
the dead, and left an account of His life for
us to read about. This same person said, "He who is not
with Me is against Me" (Luke 11:23). With Jesus, you
can't ride the fence. He didn't give us that option.
Another thing to consider: the very reason for
this life might be to make a decision for or against
God. If that is the case, then maybe it is impossible
for us not to make a decision. In other words, if we
don't say yes to God, we have therefore said no.
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