RE: Ask a Catholic
June 6, 2015 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2015 at 6:22 pm by Randy Carson.)
(June 6, 2015 at 5:53 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
Quote:Some are living immorally and don't want to give up the sex, drugs, pornographyAnd you're just in christianity for the cookie at the end. While your summary isn't indicative of atheists in reality, it is indicative regarding your suspicions of others....and we form those suspicions......by reference to ourselves.
The question becomes...why do you want to live immorally, /w the sex and the drugs and the pron so badly...that you can imagine that desire as having some ability to modify a persons status of belief? You seem to think that a person could want to smoke a bowl -sooooo much-...that it would actually turn them into atheists......lol......buddy, that can only tell us about you...not atheists, or atheism.
When a person realizes that a Holy God exists, a choice must be made: to pursue that God and become like Him as Christians are called to do or to walk away.
Many choose the latter because their attachments to girlfriends, alcohol, porn, etc. are too great. They count the cost and decide that they do not want to give up the things they love in order to have the greater thing which is God. But until you can see that what you give up is nothing in comparison, you will prefer the lesser things.
Matthew 13
The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
44 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls,46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.