(August 25, 2011 at 4:20 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:(August 25, 2011 at 4:15 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: And another thing you said you KNOW god is good because you BELIEVE he has a better sense of justice. Isnt there an obvious problem with that reasoning?
Honey... knowledge is an assumption of correctness. Ergo: it is taken on faith to be true.
So no... it seems 100% tautological to me.
I am in complete agreement! On faith, what you believe can be accepted as something you know.
I've also had many experiences where people have wronged me, especially my father. When I told the Lord how much I hated him, the Lord revealed to me that I had been forgiven for the evil things that I did and that it was hypocritical for me not to forgive. He presented it to me like this: How can you say that you love God, whom you cannot see and hate your brother who you see everyday? It's not possible. I love God, therefore I love all the people who have wronged me, not with my own understanding of love, but with God's love. I think that is a powerful sense of justice (and mercy) that I KNOW is above my own.
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6