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Richard…I’m posting this here on the home page as well since I don’t know if you’ll get back to the article to see my reply and I don’t have any way to contact you.
 
I see that you are seeking for God and you hinted
\nthat you knew him at one point. I don?t know the extent of your
\nknowledge of God or your relationship with Him but I can assure you of
\nthis?if you are seeking Him, He does reveal Himself (Deut 4:29). The Bible tells us
\nthat God is near to those who seek Him. He comes close?and in no wise
\nwill He hide Himself, but reward the seeker with His revelation (Acts 17:27; Heb 11:6).  
 
This
\nself-revelation is not to get you to join a new club or religion. He
\nwants you to live a good life filled with good works and a God honoring
\nfamily?but none of that matters if you personally are not right with
\nGod (Rom 8:6-8). 
 
In His revelation He seeks men to repent and turn to Him
\nbecause there is no way that men can please God in their family life,
\ntheir work life or their personal life on their own accord. There is
\nonly one way that God affords His good pleasure to a man and that is by
\nfaith (Heb 11:6). Faith isn?t something you work at or pray that you?ll get but
\ntrusting Him. You must look to God as the only one who is trustworthy (Heb 10:23),
\nthe only one who offers salvation and access to His presence, the only
\none who can turn your state of not being a friend of God to being a
\nfull blown son of God?not by teachings or morality or going to church,
\nbut by believing on the One that God sent to fully reveal Himself to
\nmen.  
 
God has revealed Himself in many ways but when the Son
\ncame He revealed God to men in His entirety (Heb 1:1-2; John 1:18)):. The Bible says that if you
\nbelieve on the Lord Jesus Christ you will be saved?and we?re not
\ntalking about an empty belief here in a religion or a church. We?re
\ntalking about repenting of your sin (1 John 1:9) and looking to Jesus and what He
\ndid on the cross as your only hope of peace with God, trusting that
\nChrist has paid the price and that now you can be saved (Rom 5:1-12). 
 
It
\ngets even better Richard. God, who is rich in mercy, in His revelation
\nhas shown that Jesus Christ not only died, but He rose from the
\ngrave?powerful and proving to all mankind that God is right and men are
\nwrong. This is the point Richard, men are at the crossroads?do they
\nbelieve or don?t they? Where do you stand?  
 
I would love to
\nemail you privately if you want to discuss this in further detail, but
\nI?ll tell you now that you don?t have to do a fancy prayer or any
\ncatechisms or sayings to get saved. Repent of your sin?that?s the hard
\npart, realizing that you (just like me) are a sinner?then pin your hope
\nand trust to Jesus Christ and He will save you because He has already
\nprovided a way for you to be saved (John 3:16). If you want to write me, contact me
\nin this comments section or this one<\/a> or email me at webmaster@biblearchive.com<\/p>\n

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Richard…I’m posting this here on the home page as well since I don’t know if you’ll get back to the article to see my reply and I don’t have any way to contact you. I see that you are seeking for God and you hinted that you knew him at one point. 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