Hal

to the whole passage?

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

I asked in the title:

"Evidence" in God: why are some...

and continued the question in the body:

Why are some people like this:

(and then wrote an example of someone surprised by their house burning in a wildfire.)

How many people are just like this:

Many years ago watching the evening news during Western U.S. wildfires, a news crew recorded some people arriving by car to their house site, getting out of the car and just being truly surprised.

Some other people also recorded by camera in that same report on the same neighborhood looked totally unsurprised.

But some where just standing their in amazement or shock.

The camera recorded one saying:

"I...just can't believe...it burned our house."

She seemed to feel other houses would burn instead, but not her house.

Or maybe fire only is thought to burn houses?

Are many people like this about God -- no indications of any kind will convince.

Any could read and see Jesus saying truth after truth about life.

Maybe hear from a stranger or even close friends testifying about God.

It can't happen they feel, somehow.

It can't be. Just can't.

Would *you* feel your own house just *couldn't* be burned in some large area wildfire you heard was coming? Just impossible?

"So in everything, do to others as you would have them do to you"

Then is a person "Christian" during a moment when they are doing the opposite of this command of Christ to us?

What do you think the passage means, exactly?

Please write an answer less than half a page long, if you will, unless that just isn't possible. :-)

...that He should answer?

Would you in that situation?

Here's the guidance He sent for us --

"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

Does that make more sense?

Calculus.

First formulation of theory of universal gravity.

Origin of Big Bang hypothesis.

Electromagnetism

Origin of quantum theory

This list surprised even me, since before someone asked what have Christians helped invent, I hadn't realized it was so many of the biggest breakthrough in Physics. The only giant breakthroughs left out of this list, up on this very high level, are....well, just Einstein's. Just General and Special Relativity. There's a lot more in physics, but this is the highest level of the most decisive stuff.

Surprising?

I have to admit, I'm actually surprised.

-- what would that look like, in actual examples?

Please give at least one or two specific examples that help illustrate.

If you do use a specific scripture quote, please also say if your think this is every type of love-in-action in your view, or if there are additional ways we should do.

-- what would that look like, in actual examples?

Please give at least one or two specific example that helps by showing another form, for instance. If you do use a specific scripture quote, please also say if this is every type of love-in-action in your view, or if there are additional ways we should do.

"15 If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master. 16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them."

Deuteronomy 23: 15-16

By how many years did this pre-date the U.S. Underground Railroad?

Next, what is a term for believing in a proposition without proof for the proposition?

we "reject God's Word" if we have a different idea about how much time passed between the "days" of creation in Genesis chapter 1 than they do?

What is the best, most Christ-following way to respond to another believer who tries to judge our *faith itself*(!) based on their own particular reading of a non-crucial timeline question like that??

Example: From GotQuestions.org, in an otherwise good answer about forms of idolotry the writer throws in his pet theory with a big judgement:

"We reject God’s Word and His description of how He created the heavens and the earth, and we accept the nonsense of evolution..."

Wow. How do you personally handle this from another believer?

Here's one, but please show me more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_aCjR5ZFA

...no footage or trace of him but only rhetoric about him?

Would isolated quotes ripped out of context like this help you? --

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” -- Obama

Pretty easy to spin an isolated sentence even to make it seem to mean something very different then it actually seemed in the full speech.

So, why do we so readily imagine, why fantasize we'd know what it means without the full speech or many of the paragraphs or full topic section surrounding it?

Is it because we are deeply tribal, and it's only about following/obey/bowing to our tribe ideology? We want to align our knowing to what our tribe commands us to know?

"Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt." Exodus 22:21

"I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' Matthew 25:41

How might these verses relate to deporting 'illegal' aliens, foreigners, strangers, such as undocumented Mexican immigrants?