(September 24, 2014 at 10:58 am)Drich Wrote: Doubt is only present when the Holy Spirit is not. It is impossiable to doubt God when He is literarly apart of your life. Often times people doubt religion, when this doubt is married to an absolutist idea that their particular religion can be the only valid version of Christianity, that equals to doubt in God.
I kills me that it is easier for people to doubt God rather than doubt the idea that thier religion is lacking in some way. The two are not mutuially exclusive.
I don't think the bishop is experiencing a conflict between his religion and his belief in god. His description of his doubt suggests that to the contrary, he feels god is there waiting for him. Rightly or wrongly, he blames himself for the gaps.
The Church of England is not particularly dogmatic. To the contrary, in contrast with say, the pronouncements you make here, it's just plain wishy-washy.
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.
