RE: Science and religion
March 24, 2013 at 12:32 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2013 at 12:33 am by jstrodel.)
(March 24, 2013 at 12:26 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(March 23, 2013 at 11:59 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Because everyone who lives a holy life experiences God and enjoys God. God is enjoyable and knowable. The person that said they lived a holy life did not. Living a holy life is not following a bunch of rules, it is enjoying God.
If you never enjoyed God, you were never saved, or at least never experienced holiness. Holiness is not self denial, holiness is experiencing the glory of God.
It is not like following religious rules, it is like being married. God is a good husband. The people that say they have lived a holy life have not, to live a holy life is to be married to God. If you are married to God, you know it. If you claim to have done religious things, you were never married to God.
If you lived a holy life, you would know it. Holiness is being married to God. It isn't religion, it is rules, etc. Holiness is when God comes and lives inside of you and opens your eyes to His glory. God is glorious.
Anyone who says that they have known God but been unimpressed with God has not known God.
Most Christians that go to church now and again are not really living a holy life. Holiness takes a lot of work. The person who lives a holy life would die for God. They would want to, God changes your heart. It makes everything else feel less important. You die inside. It is a big deal. You would know if you felt it. I don't think it is easy for people to leave.
It is very easy to leave psuedo-Christianity, or religious Christianity. Many people in life give up seeking God, that is too bad, it is there loss and weakness. God is findable, and does not make people wait in the dark their whole life to know if God is there. But to know God, requires holiness. Most people don't want to be holy, so they go to hell. It is too bad, but God wants people to come to heaven to be His husband.
I see a metric fuckton of platitudes and assertions above.
Prove it.
You can't, though, can you? Because it resides exclusively inside your head.
Read the history of the Christian church. Learn about the men who were missionaries and spread the church and built orphanages and soup kitchens and traveled to the ends of the earth. Read about the martyrs and monastics and the characters throughout history that have lived the authentic life. And then live the same way that they lived, with the same level of zeal and intensity. There is your proof. You will see the same things happen to you, like I have. You can feel your heart burn inside and see the shekinah glory and see the miracles and the power of the Holy Ghost. It is real.
Or you can do this. You can take all that history and knowledge of the Christian faith, and you can greatly tame down the gospel to make it fit your sins and your easy American way of life. Then you can claim all those stories were false and there is no proof, since you tried Christianity and it didn't work.
Well, what did you do when you were a Christian? Did you live for the glory of God every day? Did you consciously recognize that everything in you had died and you have no use for the world around you except to love Jesus Christ?
If you never lived this life, your opinions about Christianity mean about as much as a guy with an IQ of 98 who smoked weed through math class and got a C and said "math sucks". Well, it may suck for him. I think math is beautiful.
The fact that you smoked weed and got a 98 does not prove that math sucks. It proves that you suck. The same goes for religion. Religion is basically performance driven. Salvation is not performance driven, but religion is. If you want to experience the glory of God, it is not God that needs to stop sucking, it is you. The reason that you failed at math is not that math sucks, it is that you suck.
