RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
June 14, 2016 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2016 at 9:50 am by Whateverist.)
(June 14, 2016 at 6:19 am)alpha male Wrote:(June 13, 2016 at 4:38 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Why the hell would anyone want to try?
Someone who is occasionally tempted back should try to reconcile the contradictions. If they're real, they'll hold up, and temptations to go back would likely decrease.
Along those lines I often wonder why so many Christians blindly accept the bible as their owner's manual for God. It is obviously an unwarranted leap and intellectually it should grate .. a lot. But everyone clings to it. I personally find that clinginess to be the exact opposite of faith.
Those who have an apprehension of God, something internal that they relate to in prayer, sell it short when they impose what the bible says onto it. My advice is keep the God and ditch the book. Let the God you think you believe in tell you what it is, not a musty old hodgepodge of ancient writings.
Seems to me believers have three choices. Choice #1: they can honor the presence of God they think they feel and have faith that it will reveal what they are ready to receive when the time is right while walking in humility rather than bragging about their spiritual riches. Choice #2: they can sell that out for the 'authoritative', church sanctioned "Idiot's Guide to God" and then join the chorus of the self congratulatory. Or Choice #3: they can conclude it is all poppycock and just go on with their life.
