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[...] I have written these messages for you who don't know God. Their purpose is to lead you
to the knowledge of God, for knowing God is the most beautiful and important experience
that a human being can have. We speak from personal experience, for we have known
God.
Maybe you are an atheist and thus you will say, 'There is no God!' You are greatly
mistaken, for the Bible speaks of the existence of God, and not only the Bible, but also the
creation, which you can see with your eyes, speaks of the existence of God. Therefore
repent of this your evil thought and believe in God's existence and yearn to know Him.
Maybe you are a religious person: you believe in the existence of God and think that you
know Him, but actually you do not know God for you do not love those who are begotten of
Him. For the apostle John states that he who does not love does not know God, for God is
love (1 John 4:8). Therefore, you also – like the atheist – need to know God. It does not
matter if you say you are a Christian; you can say that you are a Roman Catholic, or a
Lutheran, or a member of the Reformed Church, or a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a
Pentecostal, or a member of another protestant denomination; you can be even a Jew, but
since you do not love, you do not know God, for you are dead in your trespasses and
iniquities. It is evident that you do not know God from this also, you do not have the
assurance of remission of sins and of eternal life, for anyone who knows God is sure that
he has obtained remissions of sins and eternal life, not by his own personal merits, but by
the grace of God. [...]
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