RE: Is it strange that I want there to be a God ?
March 28, 2013 at 1:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2013 at 1:31 am by jstrodel.)
I couldn't live without God. God is my best friend. I can assure you that God is real. Seek and you will find, knock and the door will opened to you. God is real, if you have any questions, PM me. I will write 25 pages if you want. It isn't a problem. Send me what you are curious about.
The Christian faith is true, I want all of it to be true, the mercy, the judgement, the person of Christ. I love God. God saved me and gave me hope that there was more in the world than money and getting a job and pleasure and living an empty life. God has given me meaning and opened my eyes to the wisdom of God. It is really amazing how many good things have come to me through God's agency.
Seek and you will find. It is not wrong to long to be with God. God puts that in people.
But you must respond. Don't be weak. Don't let anyone talk you out of it.
As for the wars and problem of evil, the world is in a state of evil because people have resisted God. They are no longer under the blessing of God, so that now sin affects the course of the world. That is why there are wars, because people fight to control the world. God did not cause all the bad things to happen, but now that they happen, God does punish sin. God is not more severe in God's ways than most governments in history, who have punished some crimes severely, but nevertheless are just and fair.
There really is no philosophical problem of evil. God simply is not required to act in history the way that people would want God to, and if God did, what would happen is the end of the world, because so many things would change that people would cease to have free will and the kingdom of God would come.
Something to think about. Life is complicated.
The Christian faith is true, I want all of it to be true, the mercy, the judgement, the person of Christ. I love God. God saved me and gave me hope that there was more in the world than money and getting a job and pleasure and living an empty life. God has given me meaning and opened my eyes to the wisdom of God. It is really amazing how many good things have come to me through God's agency.
Seek and you will find. It is not wrong to long to be with God. God puts that in people.
But you must respond. Don't be weak. Don't let anyone talk you out of it.
As for the wars and problem of evil, the world is in a state of evil because people have resisted God. They are no longer under the blessing of God, so that now sin affects the course of the world. That is why there are wars, because people fight to control the world. God did not cause all the bad things to happen, but now that they happen, God does punish sin. God is not more severe in God's ways than most governments in history, who have punished some crimes severely, but nevertheless are just and fair.
There really is no philosophical problem of evil. God simply is not required to act in history the way that people would want God to, and if God did, what would happen is the end of the world, because so many things would change that people would cease to have free will and the kingdom of God would come.
Something to think about. Life is complicated.
