RE: What planted the seed?
April 2, 2012 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2012 at 12:20 am by FallentoReason.)
There were two huge problems I had with my faith.
I was a born again Christian but one of the problems I had was knowing that evolution was true and trying to make sense of the Bible at the same time. Where does one draw the line between poetic descriptions of the world and events that supposedly happened like the content of the NT? There seems to be a continuity from cover to cover in the Bible that made me doubt if one could even draw that sort of line, between symbolic theological verses and real life events.
The second thing is based on the fact that no matter how strong my faith was, I never had anything happen to me that I could remotely call an encounter with God. Even the seperate parts of the trinity I never tangibly felt. So I just found it odd that the Creator was incredibly shy with me...
So over the past few years I've had my ups and downs with my faith but the thing that made me snap out of it beyond any point of return is a missing messiah that I can't find historically. Also, considering the vagueness of who wrote what in the Gospels and even some of Paul's letters, I think the probability that the sources are true witnesses is close to zero.
I was a born again Christian but one of the problems I had was knowing that evolution was true and trying to make sense of the Bible at the same time. Where does one draw the line between poetic descriptions of the world and events that supposedly happened like the content of the NT? There seems to be a continuity from cover to cover in the Bible that made me doubt if one could even draw that sort of line, between symbolic theological verses and real life events.
The second thing is based on the fact that no matter how strong my faith was, I never had anything happen to me that I could remotely call an encounter with God. Even the seperate parts of the trinity I never tangibly felt. So I just found it odd that the Creator was incredibly shy with me...
So over the past few years I've had my ups and downs with my faith but the thing that made me snap out of it beyond any point of return is a missing messiah that I can't find historically. Also, considering the vagueness of who wrote what in the Gospels and even some of Paul's letters, I think the probability that the sources are true witnesses is close to zero.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
