He does guide and direct us by illuminating the way. "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105 He knows of every possibility we could make, but it never states he makes the choice for us. He guides with his eye and with his teachings not with his hand or his wrath. It doesn't state that God is in control of our path, just that he knows of our path and wishes us to follow the path we should take. It doesn't assume we individually have a destiny. It assumes that he had a purpose, very different.
A good leader, leads through example and a good teacher teaches with understanding not ignorance. Our insights and percetions are miniscule compared to omnipotence, that's why we should rest on our partial understanding. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Corin. 13:11. The time frame of mankinds reasoning ability is miniscule compared to the span of time in the universe, we are still in our infancy.
You are free to reject or accept God at your whim. I'm sorry God hasn't revealed himself to you. We as Christians aren't trying to verify God's existence, we accept that on reason and faith. Some of us do attempt to verify the aspects of God's available to our understanding, but that's simply defining the why and the how of God, not the what. You guys can qualify faith as blind or reasonable or talk about degrees of belief all you want. I don't believe in God because of blind faith, or anything else for that matter. I believe in God because of reason. I have faith in God's purpose and plan for me.
A good leader, leads through example and a good teacher teaches with understanding not ignorance. Our insights and percetions are miniscule compared to omnipotence, that's why we should rest on our partial understanding. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Corin. 13:11. The time frame of mankinds reasoning ability is miniscule compared to the span of time in the universe, we are still in our infancy.
You are free to reject or accept God at your whim. I'm sorry God hasn't revealed himself to you. We as Christians aren't trying to verify God's existence, we accept that on reason and faith. Some of us do attempt to verify the aspects of God's available to our understanding, but that's simply defining the why and the how of God, not the what. You guys can qualify faith as blind or reasonable or talk about degrees of belief all you want. I don't believe in God because of blind faith, or anything else for that matter. I believe in God because of reason. I have faith in God's purpose and plan for me.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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