Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play

[Drich]

Drich, I have read your post several times and I still don't understand what similarities you think exist between converting to your faith and marriage.  I am not being sarcastic. I really have no idea what your basis is for the comparison

Before one is married or even seriously dating, that person only knows of marriage through what other people tell them and what they witness other people do when married.

Just like before on knows God, that only way they can know of god is through what they have witnessed and been told.

The proof of marriage (before you get married) is in the successful marriages you witness.

The proof of God (Before you get to know God personally) can also be found in those have already found Him.

That said just because your G-pop and mema have been married 90 years and love each other like they were still in grade school does not mean your experience of marriage will be like theirs. The reality is 1/2 of the marriages fail. Even so that does not stop us for Asking for.. Seeking to find, and repeating this process over and over again (knocking) until our soul mate. Even though we have no 'proof' that person truly exists. We won't know till we find them... Kinda like we don't know if their is a God. Yet, even after a failed marriage we go back and put ourselves 'out there' in hopes of finding that one person to spend the rest of our lives with, which again is A/S/K-ing all over again.

Yet when it comes to spending much longer time than the rest of our lives with God, we often point to our efforts as children and young adults (church/baptism/what not) and say because of this effort and you lack of sucess in finding God, you can conclude their iis no God. Yet if you were to put the same effort in finding that one person to spend the rest of your life with and stopped there, very few of us would even be married..

The primary point is we/you all hold the search for God to a standard that you hold nothing else in your personal life. Could you imagine what would happen to all of humanity if marriage/reproduction was tied to the same standard of proof and assureances needed for you accept God?

The sad thing is that even if God were to meet you where you wanted to be, the bar would simply be raised higher. That is why I think marriage is what it is. So that we can see our own hyprocrisy, and the double dealing we have to do to not A/S/K for God.