(January 9, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Steve Shives started doing one of his "reading a christian book from an atheist's perspective", and mentioned how when people suffer, they just need faith that they'll come out of it stronger. Except that Yahweh never comes down and reassures people in the process that they will be stronger through suffering, and indeed some people are destroyed by suffering instead of being molded into something greater. I'm sure that some christians will say that they pray and get reassurance and answers, yet not everyone does, and such reassurance isn't always clear about what the end goal is.
Those darned mysterious ways that are incomprehensible. If he is so mysterious and incomprehensible, what is there to make him trustworthy? He supposedly rewards you in the afterlife, but we have no connection to the afterlife from here.
What I say about the prayer and revelations from his is that if all pastors claim to worship the same good. All of them would be revealed the exact same thing and there would be no disagreements about what is a true Christian and stuff. But no, they know the true God...
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it isn't in our nature to think of a God, it is in our nature to seek answers and the concept of God is most influenced in this world.
it isn't in our nature to think of a God, it is in our nature to seek answers and the concept of God is most influenced in this world.
