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I'm writing in my blog again. This time, I'm writing about something very complicated. People might even wonder my spiritual state as they read it. Believe me when I say I'm still Christian. But there is a huge problem with our Christianity. We don't ask questions. We're told to ask questions is to doubt. They say the Bible says this and that. The end. No more discussion. No more questions. What if asking questions forced us to really THINK about our relationship with God and make us realize we can't be on the fence about this. It's either God is and we need Him or God isn't and we don't.
So here's the question - Do we need God? (No, this isn't a question you need to give me an answer to. I already have my answer.) This is what I'll be writing about. I might do a great job, I might do a terrible job. I might come across as blasphemous, even. Good thing I only have 5 people following me and a God who gives infinite grace to my finite soul.
So here's the question - Do we need God? (No, this isn't a question you need to give me an answer to. I already have my answer.) This is what I'll be writing about. I might do a great job, I might do a terrible job. I might come across as blasphemous, even. Good thing I only have 5 people following me and a God who gives infinite grace to my finite soul.
I find many just can't think for themselves anymore. so when questioned they have no answer and resort to the "it is just what it is" remark. maybe some are ashamed they have no answer and don't want to just say I do not know.
edit- I get the feeling I misspelled know for some reason...... maybe it just my lack of English skills.
edit- I get the feeling I misspelled know for some reason...... maybe it just my lack of English skills.
Yeah. Which gives people the fear that they may actually be doubting. And you know, even if they were doubting, I don't blame them. But shoving it off and saying, the Bible says this and that, that's all, it doesn't help. How can you find confirmation in the very thing you're unsure of whether you believe in or not. The Bible says so is not a good enough answer (I think I'm gonna go hide behind a rock because I sense that might get taken the wrong way).
indeed.
a good example would be you read a website about Russian. and said website says the word for Hi is дождь well you do not know Russian so you ask someone hey does дождь mean hi? That person that don't know ends up saying "well that is what is written" but yet they do not know. So if you follow blindly you go to Russia and you end up telling people дождь when you meet them and they look at you funny.... why did this girl just say rain to us?
So if you do your own research, plus asking others who may or may not have an answer eventually you learn that Привет is actually Hi in Russian.
a good example would be you read a website about Russian. and said website says the word for Hi is дождь well you do not know Russian so you ask someone hey does дождь mean hi? That person that don't know ends up saying "well that is what is written" but yet they do not know. So if you follow blindly you go to Russia and you end up telling people дождь when you meet them and they look at you funny.... why did this girl just say rain to us?
So if you do your own research, plus asking others who may or may not have an answer eventually you learn that Привет is actually Hi in Russian.
M
I found out last night that a girl from my high school class died about a month ago. I wasn't friends with her; nobody was. She was heavy, red haired, freckled, and didn't bathe. Girls would ask the gym teacher to give them a different locker in the locker room if they were assigned one near stinky, fat Flo. The popular girls would accuse Flo of being a lesbian, they'd say she watched them change their clothes. Boys in the hall would yell "Here comes Thunder Thighs!", "Make way for Fatty!", "Hey Flo, when's the last time you had a shower?".
People were cruel to her, every day, and nobody stood up for her.
I never called her names...to her face. I never laughed when people taunted her. But I never told anyone to shut up and leave her alone, either.
People didn't pick on me at school, not like that, and not in high school. Of course in middle school someone would occasionally say something mean, but I got off pretty easy as far as bullying goes. Flo...school must have been a nightmare for her.
I guess I'm just feeling guilty, thinking I could have made things a little easier on her if I'd had any guts back then. I guess I'm just wishing I had ever bothered to say hello to her in the hall, or offer to help her pick up her books after someone "accidentally" ran into her.
She died in her sleep. I don't know if she was alone or not. I remember that she liked horses.
People were cruel to her, every day, and nobody stood up for her.
I never called her names...to her face. I never laughed when people taunted her. But I never told anyone to shut up and leave her alone, either.
People didn't pick on me at school, not like that, and not in high school. Of course in middle school someone would occasionally say something mean, but I got off pretty easy as far as bullying goes. Flo...school must have been a nightmare for her.
I guess I'm just feeling guilty, thinking I could have made things a little easier on her if I'd had any guts back then. I guess I'm just wishing I had ever bothered to say hello to her in the hall, or offer to help her pick up her books after someone "accidentally" ran into her.
She died in her sleep. I don't know if she was alone or not. I remember that she liked horses.
K
My "feelings" are that the only reason we even question anything is because we were made in the image of God. I don't mean the body was made in His image either - the body is immaterial; doesn't matter how it was formed, doesn't matter how or if it evolved - just of no consequence. Therefore I don't really think it's our brains or what we consider our "superior" intellect that's asking these kinds of profound questions, but rather the "entity" that IS actually the thing made in the image of God and asking the questions; the soul. I often wondered if it was a kind of basic "mistake" for God to make us in His image (though later in life I answered this) because by doing so, He would have had to know that His "image" would outfit us humans with the thoughts and basic understandings of "deity". What I mean by that is that humans would then be capable of recognizing those lofty thoughts only shared by God. I think that's why we understand things like "perfection" for instance, but are unable to obtain it in a wordly body. We know what it is, but no one has achieved it! I think that's remarkable. I'm digressing, but God would have had to know that humans would have "eaten from the tree of knowledge" because their desire to use the "power of divinity" would have been too great a temptation for the worldly body to endure.
I thought of this as a "mistake" until later in life I realized it was actually a plan. Because knowing that God in His image and perfection is perfect in all things, we would have to conclude then that our "immortal questions and doubts and comprehensions" were ordained! Given that information then, your question concerning these "loftier and holy" thoughts are quite natural and expected and an essential part of Godly growth! Isn't that exciting?!
anyway - just my musings....
I thought of this as a "mistake" until later in life I realized it was actually a plan. Because knowing that God in His image and perfection is perfect in all things, we would have to conclude then that our "immortal questions and doubts and comprehensions" were ordained! Given that information then, your question concerning these "loftier and holy" thoughts are quite natural and expected and an essential part of Godly growth! Isn't that exciting?!
anyway - just my musings....