(March 20, 2013 at 11:00 pm)radorth Wrote: I can't speak for all Christians, but there were times I knew that I knew that I knew. It was those moments which left an abiding faith that God is more real the material world. So in the same way unbelievers can't get rid of doubts altogether, I can't get rid of my faith.
The other way of knowing IMO is that certain scriptures suddenly have new, applicable meaning you were too dumb to appreciate before.
Necropost. There's nothing in the rules that say I can't reply to a necro post, so here I go:
You most certainly can get rid of your faith. First, you can begin by recognising that your warm feelings are a result of your emotional ties with your religion. Nothing more, nothing less. Secondly, if you enlightened yourself about how your religion fails in every way (historically, Biblical composition, morally, philosophically, scientifically (depending on how literal your interpretation is...)) then the only sane option you have left is to let go of your culture's default belief, because who are you to be lucky enough and be born into the right god's culture? Convenient, eh?
Scripture is always warping around what the believer wants it to say. I believe the term is "cherry picking".
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
