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Originally Posted by Herkdriver
True, God knows our hearts and why we turn to Him. My own personal journey was trying to live a life outside of God. I found I could not make sense of things, before turning to Scriptures.
Now it is clear.
I was blind, but now I see.
Scriptures says non-believers will test my faith that God is absurd.
It is similar to Military indoctrination. God breaks us down to our most common denominator, before building us up. In God's eyes, no one is better than another. Having more material possessions does not make one a better person than another. For if we define ourselves in Worldly terms, by our shells, we will only find emptiness in the end. Look at the booming industry of plastic surgery, and botox. Many are not accepting the natural progression of our physical selves. Many seek to prolong physical beauty. God does not care about this. He cares about our spiritual selves, our souls. So while we all must live in the physical World, to conclude that this is all there is will ultimately lead to disillusionment and emptiness. A cup that is never filled. Only the blood of Christ, who died for us can truly sustain us, can truly nuture us. The statistics bear this out, a rising rate of divorce and foreclosures, a rising rate of indebtedness to credit cards. Many try to live above their means, they don't want to fall behind the rest of the material World. Their self-worth is tied to careers and possessions. Many die shortly after retiring from careers. They no longer have purpose because their purpose was their work. Many fall into deep depressions when losing a spouse through death or through divorce. Their self-worth was found in relationships.
Yes, to me God makes perfect sense. I'll take my invisible "sky Daddy" any day over what is being offered up today as the "pursuit of Happiness".
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I can possibly understand the need to find meaning, and therefore to resort to god. What I don't understand is why that means the Christian story of god is the correct one.
That aside, however, I still don't see how a "meaning" even with god is any more meaningful than without god. We have one alternative, the atheist one if you will:
dust to dust
And we have the "godly" version, eternal life:
....???? eternal life? Maybe I misunderstand, but to me eternal life seems no better than eternal death. An eternity of what? Worshiping? Golf? Beer and Parties? My understanding of an eternity is no better than death.
In addition, a lack of an ability to "make sense of things" does not institute a valid reason to accept just one possible story and call it fact. I accept that the Christian view is possible, and to that degree I have hope, but I don't put all my eggs in one basket. If there is a god, I believe he gave us a rational, skeptical mind for a reason. That learning to think for yourself and understand the meaning behind books such as the bible is the purpose of life, not merely the faithful following of it just to make your life make sense.
My meaning comes from pondering the endless possibilities and figuring things out. I believe this is just as likely to be the purpose god gave us for life as unquestioning faith. In fact, if god is rational, I believe he appreciates rational inquiry and skepticism. But this is only because I’m agnostic, not atheist. I don’t know what the atheists might say is their purpose.