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I don't exactly know what you mean but I do remember being close to your age when a realization hit me: "I've been lied to"
I started looking at everything differently....I saw my family in turmoil and my parents hiding behind their newspapers. My anger at them evaporated when it dawned on me that 'they've been lied to also'.
I reckon this is when your mind REALLY starts opening up to what's going on around you. You start seriously looking outside of yourself
So yes, there is a lot of spiritual desolation and we are 'trapped' in this world for a short time, but we don't have to spend our whole lifetimes in spiritual desolation
I started looking at everything differently....I saw my family in turmoil and my parents hiding behind their newspapers. My anger at them evaporated when it dawned on me that 'they've been lied to also'.
I reckon this is when your mind REALLY starts opening up to what's going on around you. You start seriously looking outside of yourself
So yes, there is a lot of spiritual desolation and we are 'trapped' in this world for a short time, but we don't have to spend our whole lifetimes in spiritual desolation
Western society, which is mostly found in North America and Europe, is largely bereft of true Christianity. I once saw this picture while surfing the web:
That's the current state of faith in the Western world. And when they say "God," they aren't necessarily speaking of the Christian God. They could be speaking of Allah, or YHWH (Christians believe this is our God, I'm just making a clarification), or they have an idea of God that doesn't include things like being engaged on a personal level/sending people to Hell/etc. Notice how America believes strongly in God? Yet how much of that do we see it in our world?
The problem is, over the last several decades the church has become less interested in carrying out its duty to exemplify to the world what it means to be holy. And cultural revolutions have made it more common to live in a worldly manner, rebelling against and throwing off "overbearing institutions" like religion. Yes, we are pretty spiritually desolate I would say.
That's the current state of faith in the Western world. And when they say "God," they aren't necessarily speaking of the Christian God. They could be speaking of Allah, or YHWH (Christians believe this is our God, I'm just making a clarification), or they have an idea of God that doesn't include things like being engaged on a personal level/sending people to Hell/etc. Notice how America believes strongly in God? Yet how much of that do we see it in our world?
The problem is, over the last several decades the church has become less interested in carrying out its duty to exemplify to the world what it means to be holy. And cultural revolutions have made it more common to live in a worldly manner, rebelling against and throwing off "overbearing institutions" like religion. Yes, we are pretty spiritually desolate I would say.