RE: Trouble dealing with family about my unbelief
May 13, 2011 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2011 at 2:22 pm by everythingafter.)
(May 11, 2011 at 8:56 pm)tackattack Wrote: Frankly, I find understanding through faith to be in a large part about timing. Perhaps you had never had God reveal anything to you as you are supposing.
My problem is why does a person have to ask for God to reveal something to him for years with no answer? What would such a revelation be like? A thought that I think might have come from God? A feeling in my heart? An audible voice? Most adamant believers don't even claim to have heard something so concrete. So why is such a revelation of his truthfulness apparently so hard to perceive, even for someone who wants to believe?
(May 11, 2011 at 8:56 pm)tackattack Wrote: I can understand that you personally see no evidence for God, but are/were you looking?
I'm not sure what you're asking. I already said I was looking, or at least I was at one time.
(May 12, 2011 at 8:14 pm)Zenith Wrote: Perhaps He was following a higher objective. If He knew that He could have sent His son later in order to fix things, then the creation of man would have worthed it.
But wouldn't the very need to "fix things" imply that God erred on the first plan? This, it seems to me, would negate his divinity.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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