Seeing God (e-book) (used book) | David Nelmes | bookbook.eu

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When you question your beliefs, question the Bible, or question the requirements within the church, these are signs you are seeking the truth and are willing to see things differently. Your loving and eternally patient Creator hears you and has provided a way for you to step away from any confusion and heaviness and walk towards experiencing a loving and peaceful life. This book is one of His answers for you.

I know where you are because I was at those same crossroads. I was raised with Evangelical Christian beliefs, and this created a very firm and unchangeable depiction of who God was. As I grew older, I often struggled with how the Bible depicted God's unloving need to kill and destroy, and how his unforgiving nature could only be appeased by conforming to his demands and swearing obedience to his requirements ... or else. These splinters in my beliefs eventually led me to see past what was written about God and that allowed me to embrace what I felt the real God was sharing with me, that He loved us beyond our capacity to fathom, and that forgiveness was totally unconditional, and already applied without request or demand.

It was liberating to no longer have to ponder whether God was a forgiving God I could love or a demanding God I should fear. Seeing God more truthfully allowed me to see that God is a God of unconditional love, and that He does not teach through fear or use fear in any way. I was beyond excited and immediately began to write articles about this new perception.

The answers you may find in this book are based upon a core concept which is clearly illustrated in an excerpt from one of my articles -

By Being Willing to See, You Will Discover a God of Love
There is nothing God requires that you do. There is no payment or sacrifice he requires or desires. There is no path to discover by racking your brain in trying to figure out what it is that God would have you do. There is no physical thing in the entire universe that you need to give God or to those who claim they follow God. There is only one thing that God desires from you and that is for you to Be Willing.
Be Willing to see clearly.
Be Willing to choose differently.
Be Willing to set aside what the world has taught you.
Be Willing to be what he would have you be.
Your willingness creates an opening in your being that allows the Holy Spirit to Do things. It allows the Holy Spirit to heal you, teach you and guide you. Learn to Be willing and you'll truly see what God Can Do.

My articles showed a loving and peaceful God, and often pointed out the specific contradictions where he is shown otherwise in the Bible. Some of my articles included a little Bible bashing or Christian bashing, however, this was simply due to unresolved anger at the time. For the most part, my goal was to both express the joy in what I was discovering, and to help those who were experiencing a similar desire to see their beliefs and God more truthfully.

My new perceptions in God were sometimes helped by performing an exercise where I learned to "Step Back" from my position or viewpoint and allow myself to see the bigger picture and a new interpretation of what I believed were the facts.