RE: Ask a Bible college Student
November 2, 2016 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2016 at 3:28 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(November 2, 2016 at 3:04 pm)Emzap Wrote: We do look at the arguments against Christianity.
I don't think you looked at them quite closely enough...
(November 2, 2016 at 3:04 pm)Emzap Wrote: However, just like any other belief system (including atheism), faith is needed, because not everything can be explained.
Not knowing is not the same as faith. I'm perfectly fine not knowing things I can't know right now, or perhaps ever. I don't need to make up far-fetched explanations, or invoke magical entities and pretend they're somehow objectively true.
(November 2, 2016 at 3:04 pm)Emzap Wrote: There is a lot that we as humans do not know and cannot understand. Generally, as Christians we put our faith in a Bible verse- Deuteronomy 29:29 which says "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law."
We understand that we are not God, and cannot understand everything. The secret things belong to God.
Yeah, those are pleasantly sounding platitudes. "We know what we know and we don't know what we don't know." I don't see at which point god is supposed to be necessary, though.
This bible school you go to - does it cost you anything? Because if so, I know of a way you could save a lot of time and money, and perhaps do something constructive, instead of filtering reality through the prism of bronze age mythology.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw