(October 22, 2013 at 9:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You're the ones needing to be humbled.
If I am to judge by the behavior of Christians here, god is unconcerned with people being humble.
(October 23, 2013 at 4:33 am)hobie Wrote: I have sought God earnestly too, but have little to show for it. My Christian friend says that my life is clouded in sin and that is why God does not bother with me. I am vexed about this.
If I am to go by what the Christians here say, the whole point of seeking god is redemption of sin, which doesn't make sense if being "clouded" in sin prevents you from finding him. But the problem with that is if you ask 10 Christians a question, and you will get 10 different answers.
I would say your friend has just created an ad hoc excuse as to why you can't find him and he/she can, so your friend doesn't have to except the fact that he/she has deluded him/herself. The brain has all kinds of defense mechanisms to keep it from accepting that its worldview is false, and rationalizations like that are one of them.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
