Yesterday I pulled into a convenience store and headed for an empty parking spot. There was another car blocking my way heading in the opposite direction. That car didn't move and neither did I for a few seconds, but then I realized the other car was planning to back into the parking stall, so I pulled away and parked next to a gas pump. I didn't need gas - just coffee. As it turns out the driver of the other car was a young man, clean cut, and very polite. He apologized to me and then asked me if I knew God. I said I did. He invited me to his church and asked me if I knew Mother God? He said there was God the father and God the mother and I could learn about that at his church. I politely took the information he wrote down on location and time and wondered if I should engage him and tell him there is nowhere in the bible that speaks of Mother God. As I was driving away, I asked myself if I did the wrong thing. Should I have engaged him, told him the bible doesn't talk about Mother God and that he was participating in a satanic religion? How can I know the right answer to that question. On the one hand what you say in this post I agree with, and so I don't usually try to persuade those who I know are embracing a false belief, but on the other hand I wonder if maybe God would want me to redirect them toward the truth. How I ask myself can I have any impact at all on those who are under Satan's control and also under God's control via God's powerful delusion? Then again, how can I know God didn't put me in that very place at that very time for a purpose?
It's hard to know the answer to that question. Two points: I believe that when God wants you to engage, you'll feel that inside and he will give you the words to say. Number two - when things like that happen, when God brings someone to your attention, it can be a signal to you that God wants you to pray for that person. I am an absolute believer in the power of prayer, and I pray to be made aware when there's someone God wants me to intercede for. In fact, I join you right now, asking for that person's salvation and deliverance from false religion. Father, show him the truth we pray.
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Yesterday I pulled into a convenience store and headed for an empty parking spot. There was another car blocking my way heading in the opposite direction. That car didn't move and neither did I for a few seconds, but then I realized the other car was planning to back into the parking stall, so I pulled away and parked next to a gas pump. I didn't need gas - just coffee. As it turns out the driver of the other car was a young man, clean cut, and very polite. He apologized to me and then asked me if I knew God. I said I did. He invited me to his church and asked me if I knew Mother God? He said there was God the father and God the mother and I could learn about that at his church. I politely took the information he wrote down on location and time and wondered if I should engage him and tell him there is nowhere in the bible that speaks of Mother God. As I was driving away, I asked myself if I did the wrong thing. Should I have engaged him, told him the bible doesn't talk about Mother God and that he was participating in a satanic religion? How can I know the right answer to that question. On the one hand what you say in this post I agree with, and so I don't usually try to persuade those who I know are embracing a false belief, but on the other hand I wonder if maybe God would want me to redirect them toward the truth. How I ask myself can I have any impact at all on those who are under Satan's control and also under God's control via God's powerful delusion? Then again, how can I know God didn't put me in that very place at that very time for a purpose?
It's hard to know the answer to that question. Two points: I believe that when God wants you to engage, you'll feel that inside and he will give you the words to say. Number two - when things like that happen, when God brings someone to your attention, it can be a signal to you that God wants you to pray for that person. I am an absolute believer in the power of prayer, and I pray to be made aware when there's someone God wants me to intercede for. In fact, I join you right now, asking for that person's salvation and deliverance from false religion. Father, show him the truth we pray.
I did do that as I was driving away.