(June 8, 2014 at 10:24 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: The whole point of this sermon is that wavering faith is the reason Jesus doesn't do stuff for you. That a person whose faith is 'continuously waivering' is not doing Christianity right. Somehow, natural skepticism and reasoning is being vilified. I know in my head this is the kind of thing people believe. But, for the life of me, I cannot understand why as soon as this buffoon says "Reasoning oftentimes doesn't work with God, he is above all that," there isn't a mass exodus out of the super-mega-church complex. BAH!!!
Yeah, this shit has a bunch of scriptural basis in the NT. I'm sure the early Christians were well aware of skepticism and the problems it presented, so they vilified it pretty early on.
Matthew 17:20
Quote:20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”Jesus says "you can literally move mountains. No hyperbole! You just need more faith!", yet no one has ever done this. So, it's a great way to build some non-falsifiability into the religion's claims.
"Believe in Jesus and you will have miracles!*"
* Beliefs and miracles subject to restrictions and limitations any may not apply in all territories. Check to see if these miracles apply to you.
1 Corintians 1:25
Quote:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.We are told that our logic and reasoning mean nothing compared to God's Truth. It doesn't make sense to you? Too bad! It's your fault, not God's.
So, yeah, it's all turtles stifling questioning nonfalsifiable beliefs all the way down, with scripture to back it all up!
