“Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know”
I think this is the door that skeptics need to open. I suspect that many unbelievers aren’t so sure that they actually want to believe. It seems so ingrained in us to hang on and fight for beliefs that have grasped us through upbringing or friends or culture or education. Notice that most of what we believe did not come to us by honest, object inquiry, rather they have simply been placed in us. We take what’s put in us, feel intuitively that it’s right, then find logical arguments to support what we already believe.
Jesus gives us a way out of this mess. He asks, “are you really open to the possibility that there is a God and that doing God’s will is the best possible life?”. If not, you’ll probably never know. However, if you are genuinely open to the possibility that you’re a-priori assumptions about God could be wrong and consider the possibility of a new reality, then Jesus tells you how to pursue that possibility. Begin to follow and in doing so, do so with an openness to actually finding a new desire welling up from within, the possibility that not only your intellect can discover something currently off your radar, but also that your desires can be awakened.
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