Sola Fide
February 27, 2011 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2011 at 4:55 pm by Handprint.)
I'm not really sure how to begin.
After my best friend died, I began to look into Christianity, and "became" one for a while. It was hard for me to deal with the passing of my friend.
I just, more and more, for a long time, just have felt what other Christians were telling me was a bunch of crap. Why do Christians need fellowship? Because, they don't actually believe their own crap, so they need validation from others who believe in the same stuff.
Why don't I see God in my daily life? Because, there IS no God! Suprise!
Welcome to the land where you have to fight your way through absurdism and your own short-comings to make yourself into who YOU want to be. Praying, sure, go do it, maybe it has some sort of psychological reinforcement/comforting value to it, but other than that, eh.
Wow I am actually in a place where I can say how I feel after being quiet for so long listening to annoying evangelicals.
I truely feel that Christians, once they decide what they believe, try, desperately to find proof that affirms this, by creating complicated theories and philosophical arguments about why God exists.
o.O That's always how I felt, even as a Christian, that I was forcing the world to conform to my beliefs, rather than embracing something which was true.
Truth and Truth in the religious sense are two entirely different things.
I'm so glad I found this place where I can say all of this.
The title of my thread says it all. Sola Fide. It's what I've listed my religious views as on my facebook.
Only by Faith. Which means to me, only by faith can you believe in a religion. Because, rationally, it doesn't make much sense to me. :/
After my best friend died, I began to look into Christianity, and "became" one for a while. It was hard for me to deal with the passing of my friend.
I just, more and more, for a long time, just have felt what other Christians were telling me was a bunch of crap. Why do Christians need fellowship? Because, they don't actually believe their own crap, so they need validation from others who believe in the same stuff.
Why don't I see God in my daily life? Because, there IS no God! Suprise!
Welcome to the land where you have to fight your way through absurdism and your own short-comings to make yourself into who YOU want to be. Praying, sure, go do it, maybe it has some sort of psychological reinforcement/comforting value to it, but other than that, eh.
Wow I am actually in a place where I can say how I feel after being quiet for so long listening to annoying evangelicals.
I truely feel that Christians, once they decide what they believe, try, desperately to find proof that affirms this, by creating complicated theories and philosophical arguments about why God exists.
o.O That's always how I felt, even as a Christian, that I was forcing the world to conform to my beliefs, rather than embracing something which was true.
Truth and Truth in the religious sense are two entirely different things.
I'm so glad I found this place where I can say all of this.
The title of my thread says it all. Sola Fide. It's what I've listed my religious views as on my facebook.
Only by Faith. Which means to me, only by faith can you believe in a religion. Because, rationally, it doesn't make much sense to me. :/
