(June 20, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It just wouldn't matter if your standards -were- as inadequate as Randys..of course.
Randy, this is for you, you hear "thats -insert fallacy here-!" alot.....and I don't think that's informative enough for you to understand why your arguments aren't compelling. Let me elaborate for you, while I still have the will.
If I criticize you for having low standards.....and you -demonstrate- that I have low standards........I will simply concede that I am being as pig headed and ignorant as you are.
We're -both- shitwits, apparently. You're still a shitwit, your shitwitted beliefs are still, themselves, shitwitted.....and the only difference between a world in which you "win" this argument and a world in which you "lose" this argument...is that the raft you are drifting through a sea of unending shitwiitedness -in- becomes more crowded with additional passengers. Bogged down by further, shitwitted mass.
Do you understand?
Completely.
I also understand that you cannot see the evidence and proofs for Christianity and God clearly. It does exist, and you have heard it, but you have not really heard it, because if you had, you would arguing in this forum from my side of the divide.
Now, this is a puzzlement. The easy answer is to say that apart from God's grace, you cannot "see" and "hear", and that may be the only explanation that is possible. I understand that many here are former Christians...these are the seeds that fell on the path and were eaten by birds or that sprang up quickly but withered when they had no root or even some that may have been choked by weeds. I cannot say why this happened...only that Jesus spoke of it, and his words have proven to be true.
I can't explain why God does not answer every prayer when people call out to Him. He doesn't answer me very often, either. That doesn't really bother me, though...I think Billy Graham and Pope Francis have that same experience. Some folks in this forum say that God NEVER answered them. Maybe that's true...how could I say otherwise?
What I do believe is this: I am mercifully caught in the gravitational field of God, and I am in orbit around him. Whenever my tendency is to fly off into the darkness, I'm pulled back toward the light of the Son who is at the center of my orbit. As I spiral closer and closer, I look forward to the day when I disappear beyond the event horizon, lost to view by those who remain behind in this life, but suddenly present to Him and all who have gone before.