(June 11, 2014 at 4:57 pm)Godschild Wrote: Thank you for your response, but I wonder does anyone wanting to know God in a more meaningful way ever stop seeking. To me following is very good, it leads to experiences with others that could not be gained in any other way and grows one in character. However to seek God continually would be to know Him in deeper personal ways, ways that keeps one strong in their belief of who God is.To me, you seek something that you have not found, then once you find it you want to learn more about it. If you had learned that you were an adopted child, you might decide to seek out your real parents. Once you find them, you no longer are seeking; now you want to know them better and maybe develop a deeper relationship.
To me, seeking god would work that same way. Having always known god, it was a case of strengthening the relationship by doing what he wanted of me and communicating with him via prayer and Bible study. In a way, it was the act of seeking him out that led me where I am today. I think many are in that same place, having found god before they sought him out. Those who actually do try to find him at least have the personal satisfaction of deciding for themselves that he is real before they start to worship.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
