This one comes up sometimes and it at first seems like a really simple question to answer. The question being, do people need a degree to believe God and/or say he's right, or instead, to not believe him and/or claim he's wrong. The answer is no, you do not need any degree to decide if you believe God or not. The reason you don't need a degree to believe God or not, is that God was already right thousands of years ago when he said what he did billions of years ago. At both times, no degrees were around to confirm or deny his having done what he said he did, or to confirm that he was the source. This is because degrees are a relatively recent occurrence, they've had no effect on what God said or did all those billions of years. God's own statements confirm that he is right, they match what his creation shows. God's statements have never depended on whether or not people agree with him, or claim he's right or not, since again, God was right long before anyone else existed. The point of all this is simple, God is vastly more intelligent than any of us, vastly more powerful, and having a degree or not, that won't save you, since it won't be useful as an excuse for rejecting God. Why? If you decide that someone with a degree is right in their rejecting God, you're putting your trust in their degree, assuming that said degree outweighs what God had said. Basically, you're putting your trust in what someone else said, over what God said, hoping that they weighed all the facts for you. By doing that, you end up weighing the judgement of others, putting them in the scale, and then ignoring what God had said. It then becomes an issue of people not specifically bothering to know what God said or trying to understand it, but instead trying to gauge whether or not others understood what God said in relation to what they learned to obtain a degree. It really drops down to one issue, will you believe God and consider what he said, or will you believe others? Those others may or may not understand what God said. They may claim that a degree answered whether or not God was right, when typically most degrees have little or no background towards finding out what God said. The scale begins to grow. Instead of weighing whether or not God was right, you begin to have to weigh whether or not others were right about God. For instance, did the others know all they needed to know? Did you include enough of the right people? Did you miss some people with more information than the ones picked? Were some of the people biased in how they decided issues? So now it's become not just an issue of judging people known to be right, now you have to judge whether or not they were even good enough to include in the decision. You have to begin to weigh whether or not the people put in the scale, should even be in the scale. The scale then becomes HUGE, it includes all the people, events, and knowledge for the entire world over all time, and you have to judge it... just to see if God was right. Instead, why not see if God was right directly? Why not see what God said, and decide from that? There's a HUGE scale out there that many people don't see. That scale is in Jesus's hand and it's slammed to one side. It shows that God was right. The entire world could fit in that scale, and the scale would still say God was right. But it's incredibly difficult for people to both see the scale, or to realize that they can't balance the entire world in the scale just to see if God was right. The best thing to do then, is to see what God said, and to then decide to believe God based on that. God made it all, Jesus died for our sins.
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