I believe in God
Many people say they believe in God but it is really just a god in their own making. They have carved an image in their mind of the god they want instead of believing in the God that exists. The main reason they do that is because they love their sins. They dont want a God who tells them "what to do", but would be fine with one that only gives them what they want [like a genie]. Where all your sinful hearts desires are met. That god is Satan. Not the only true and living God. So what you are doing in reality is called idolatry.
God has created us to fellowship with Him, to know Him, follow Him, love Him, glorify Him, and be with Him for eternity. We were created perfect & with an identity [in His image] and for a purpose. But we cant live that out rightly because sin entered the world at the Fall in Eden when Adam sinned. Our relationship with God was severed, our spiritual life died, and death entered as did corruption, sin, illness, disease, struggle, and death. Everything is broken, even man's relationship to man.
If the original design [Adam] gets damaged [fallen] then in the manufacturing machine [creating babies] they all turn out defective, until the one in charge [God] fixes and restores it.
This sin nature we all have is why we cannot live perfectly and in righteousness like God and how he designed Adam. This is why when we look at the moral Law in the 10 Commandments we see God's holy character and nature, and understand that we cannot live up to that in thought word or deed.
God is perfect and holy and just and righteous and nothing sinful can stand in His presence and live. He must punish and eradicate sin. And 1 sin is enough to damn us. Scripture tells us the wages of sin is death.
So we earn our wages just as a criminal in court does.
But that isnt the end of the story. YHWH is a God of compassion and love, of grace and mercy. He went to extreme lengths to redeem us from the curse, to save all who come to him in truth. The humble who repent of their sins and trust in the completed work of Christ (that pays our sin debt to God [the Just Judge]) will be saved. Their debt will be fully paid. By his Grace we are forever fully forgiven, recieve a righteous nature, are gifted eternal life, and love God, lovingly happily obey Him, live for Him, and long to be with Christ in heaven.
The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 6:23
God will change our heart at conversion from one who hates God and loves sin, to one who loves God and hates sin.
Once we have a true understanding of God and the Gospel, we can see what an immense gift God has offered us...and it should cause us to desperately immediately grasp at it [recieve it gratefully].
I do hope you come to understand this well and that God saves you.
Satan wants you to go to Hell and suffer eternal punishment and God's wrath because he cannot be forgiven nor redeemed. He decieves humans and leads them to their destruction. But if God has opened your heart & opened your eyes today, I pray you will run to the foot of the cross for mercy and grace and be freed from the chains of the sin nature that enslaves you to sin and Satan.
Live free in Christ.
Don't let anything stop you from being made right with God today.
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