Quote (Puls3 @ Jun 25 2014 04:46am)
- I am very curious about one thing and this isn't spam, but an actual question about the deep recesses of your mind.
- Do you understand why people such as myself do not believe?
- Do you think deep down you could be wrong?
Would you step out of your shoes ever to try to see from other perspectives to open your mind? Or are you pretty dead set on what you believe.
Asking this in the most respectful way possible.
Hey I don't consider this spam at all honestly. They are great question.
1)Some Christians believe that "election" is a way God picks and chooses who accepts him, while others believe all people have the possibility in believing. I believe the more you share with people the more people you will find with that are elected. I understand how radically crazy the Christian belief sounds and honestly most "Christians" don't live by what they believe. I am in no one saying that I am perfect, but if I was an atheist and saw how modern day christian went about their lives, I would be like "screw that". I think it is very common in Christianity because of the "saved by faith" thing. Many take that as a free pass and completely ignore the fact that to be a Christian means to follow Christ.
2)Basically you are asking have I ever questioned my faith....Yes. Very much so. I use to lay awake at night when I was in highschool pondering the concept of this...like this life being it. And I have heard the phrase "All religions are just meant to comfort people on the road to nothingness.". I won't deny that I enjoy the comfort of knowing their is another life after, but sitting down and thinking about it is crazy. I have looked through other perspectives and where I have the problem with most religions is they say in one way or another "Humans can be good enough to overcomes their wrong enough that they should be rewarded with heaven." I disagree to that. So I believe there can be 2 choices that I found logical that can't be proven: 1) there is no god. Therefore this life's meaning is in and of itself. If so in a million years, our life is merely to exist and disappear without no oneever really knowing. Depressing but a possibility. 2nd: There is a perfect moral standard God who must be just. This can mean 2 things since we can't technically prove God is loving...1)we all dissapear...see explanation 1 if that is true. 2)r we all deserve hell because none of us can be good enough to be compared to God's standard. So we deserve hell or our lives don't matter. This train of thought led me to the next: if Jesus is who he says he is then if I accept that then I don't deserve heaven, but I can still go in. Or their is no hope and we all go to hell(similar to Greek mythology).
Sorry that is so long. But that is my train of thought when I attempted to look at things from a different perspective. I am not saying Christianity can be scientifically proven as the end all thing, but I have enough personal experience that shows me that is the choice I pick.