Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Religion 2
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him]
If I felt misguided and unfulfilled at every turn and there was no one willing to help me. No one willing to provide me the answers I needed. And finally, kicking and screaming I find someone willing to give me answers. Aren't I prone to feel compassion for that message. At that time if for no other reason than its the only message anyone is willing to give me. And my faith already not being in anything dealing with any church, wouldn't I be prone to seek any way to disprove their message? Because somewhere there has to be a catch? Yet on the surface I think the catch I am seeking is within the message, when actually it is within the messenger. Because it has constantly been the people who have shunned me and not the word. It was the people I was seeking not the word and in seeking the people, even if unknowingly, I came across the Word that would lead to my next beginning. Could that have been God intervening? And now when I feel in my bones I can not do those things I believe I should be doing, could it not be a stronger will than my own interveninG?
The Bible should be the precedence so it can not be refuted. You can not use another source to disprove the source that the justifying source is based on.
I love my friends and I respect what they feel they know as true as I hope they would return the courtesy; But what you are showing me whenever I say believe and you correct me by saying ‘know’ is 1) what I believe is wrong because a belief can not compare to fact and facts are all you can know on this earth. 2) You need to convince not me, but yourself that you ‘know’ the truth.
I feel everyone is entitled to believe what brings them peace whether it conflicts with my personal beliefs or not, I am the only one who has to live with the consequences of my actions. Spectators can only bear witness but I have to experience it. So I don’t have to correct you when you say its what I believe. I don’t have to hear myself say it’s the truth. You don’t hear mathematicians saying 2 + 2 = 4 every thirty seconds. Why because its no question. You don’t have to hear yourself say it to help you believe it, to me it sounds like you are fighting against yourself. You need to believe this because without it your foundation is crushed and then you have to actually live life by faith alone. Interesting…
If I felt misguided and unfulfilled at every turn and there was no one willing to help me. No one willing to provide me the answers I needed. And finally, kicking and screaming I find someone willing to give me answers. Aren't I prone to feel compassion for that message. At that time if for no other reason than its the only message anyone is willing to give me. And my faith already not being in anything dealing with any church, wouldn't I be prone to seek any way to disprove their message? Because somewhere there has to be a catch? Yet on the surface I think the catch I am seeking is within the message, when actually it is within the messenger. Because it has constantly been the people who have shunned me and not the word. It was the people I was seeking not the word and in seeking the people, even if unknowingly, I came across the Word that would lead to my next beginning. Could that have been God intervening? And now when I feel in my bones I can not do those things I believe I should be doing, could it not be a stronger will than my own interveninG?
The Bible should be the precedence so it can not be refuted. You can not use another source to disprove the source that the justifying source is based on.
I love my friends and I respect what they feel they know as true as I hope they would return the courtesy; But what you are showing me whenever I say believe and you correct me by saying ‘know’ is 1) what I believe is wrong because a belief can not compare to fact and facts are all you can know on this earth. 2) You need to convince not me, but yourself that you ‘know’ the truth.
I feel everyone is entitled to believe what brings them peace whether it conflicts with my personal beliefs or not, I am the only one who has to live with the consequences of my actions. Spectators can only bear witness but I have to experience it. So I don’t have to correct you when you say its what I believe. I don’t have to hear myself say it’s the truth. You don’t hear mathematicians saying 2 + 2 = 4 every thirty seconds. Why because its no question. You don’t have to hear yourself say it to help you believe it, to me it sounds like you are fighting against yourself. You need to believe this because without it your foundation is crushed and then you have to actually live life by faith alone. Interesting…
Religion
If God is infallible and everything happens for a reason: Shouldn’t we have all that is meant to have of the Lord’s words? Why would a separate Bible of any sort be necessary? Doesn’t that imply imperfection on God’s part? He didn’t know that he was going to have to restore faith? And why would he have to restore faith, the word or the gospel? He is the Lord who changes not. John 1:1 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' God is the law and the word and the word is the gospel so how can the gospel be anything but true? How can God need to be restored?
