RE: RevOxley inro thread
August 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2009 at 8:01 pm by RevOxley.)
(August 17, 2009 at 5:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Hey Rev, I guess we don't need to be introduced
Didn't know you had a wife though. Is she an atheist too?
Hey there H8tr
No, the wife is not an atheist...she is in limbo I guess. Agnostic or Agnostic Atheist might be the most appropriate term...but she isn't really into defining things. I kind of drug her into the faith (I led her to Jesus when we were still in middle school...hehe) and when I started falling away we didn't even talk about it...she just up and told me one day that she didn't buy the Jesus bullshit anymore...and I was relieved to say the least.
(August 17, 2009 at 7:42 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Seems you are very fresh out of the camp Rev. I know it took me years to get over my experience properly. Perhaps 15 years until it really had no influence over me.
In my experience there were no difficulties with the supposed contradictions in the bible. In my understanding what you call something can be interpreted two ways. A lot of what is easily ascribed to God could equally be ascribed to 'not God' or 'chance'. The logic was sound but the interpretation could be loaded.
And then for me belief relies on faith. Belief HAS to be a leap of logic. There is necessarily no demonstrable proof of anything. Of course it is all necessarily personal in nature. I suppose I convinced myself to reject the personal evidence, which is an entirely logical thing to do, given the constricts of the belief.
I think you did an excellent job with that. For what it's worth. You seem to be a pretty centred person to me. Good luck with it all
Thanks very much...I constantly struggle for "centeredess" so it's nice to hear that
