Quote (wofire @ 3 Jul 2014 22:09)
Answered a question similar to this earlier...
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).
I believe we can progress to the moral standards instituted by Jesus.
God is supremely just, kind and merciful, will wait until all your children can progress to these moral standards.
Quote (IceMage @ 3 Jul 2014 22:33)
Catholics believe that those who don't have knowledge that their action was sinful did not actually sin.
this is an issue that causes many questions.
because if so, I would rather die with 3 year old to have an existence of sins and faults.