RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
November 27, 2016 at 10:08 pm
(November 27, 2016 at 12:09 pm)johan Wrote:(November 23, 2016 at 7:14 pm)Balaco Wrote: I was taught that God doesn't give us undeniable proof of his existence as a test of faith...those with righteous minds would find him. Joker and any other Catholics, what are your thoughts on this?
This is one of those things where the authors of the bible (people wrote it BTW) seemed to forget that not everyone has a short attention span and that some of us actually remember what we read. Case in point, the omniscience of god:
Quote: tells us that even the hairs on our head are numbered. No matter how carefully we keep secrets from others, we have no secrets from God.
God makes it so there can never be undeniable proof of his existence and he does this as a test of our faith in him. But god knows everything there is to know about us.
Picture for a minute what your life would be like if you could know everything there is to know about everything. You'd sit down at a restaurant and when the server brought out a menu you could just wave your hand and say I already know what's on the menu, I'll have the meatloaf but I'll have it with some broccoli instead of the carrots that come with it. You could also then tell the server hey, you should really have the brakes checked on that old Corolla of yours and get your son into a dermatologist before that skin tag on his back turns nasty.
Now ask yourself why anyone with that kind of reality would need to give people any kind of a test of faith. You wouldn't because you'd already know who had faith and who didn't.
From what I understand, the tests of our faith are moreso for our benefit so that we can determine our strengths/weaknesses, and grow closer to God by asking for his support.
