RE: I've Decided
June 15, 2014 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2014 at 10:30 am by Jenny A.)
(June 15, 2014 at 5:20 am)Eye of God Wrote: I'm sorry.
I can't shake these doubts I must leave this place before reason destroys my faith.
If my Lord wishes that I return he will give me the renewed strength.
Ah, I see. I thought you were afraid you'd failed at converting us. The real danger is that we might convert you . . . Yes that can happen. People do lose faith.
Think about it though. The phrase says it all "to lose faith." I might lose faith in my husband in the sense that I might think he was not the man I thought he was, but I wouldn't lose faith in his existence. If you know god is there, you don't need faith in his existence.
Faith, to paraphrase Mark Twain, is giving yourself permission to believe what is not so. Praying for faith is begging to be allowed to con yourself.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
