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[superlemming13]

In Christianity, as I know it, there are a lot of things that aren't explained. There are a lot of things that somehow just don't seem right. Anyone who is intelligent, and has pondered on this stuff for any amount of time will find questions that don't seem to have any real answers. My faith isn't as strong as it should have been, I guess,

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[joshusdog]

Wow... you obviously don't have enough to do at work, do you? But I suppose, neither do I, since I'm responding. ;)

Some comments:

1) Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, but you seem to believe there's some God that sits outside of this existence and has some inscrutable plan for everything. Where does idea come from? I can't say that I'm a religious person, much less a Christian, but doesn't the Good Book say something to the effect of, "God is everywhere. God surrounds us, binds us. You, me, that tree." (Oh wait, that's Star Wars) Why does God have to be a seperate entity residing some place other than right here?

Furthermore, what is God? Even if God is an entity seperate from this realm of existence, it still doesn't say anything about God's true nature. You posit that God has always been and always will be. No start, no end, just always has been. Somehow God remains unaffected by the laws of cause and effect, completely unchanging. How can something that is unchanging affect change? The mere act of willing something

[superlemming13]

This is just pasted from an email.

1) You're misinterpreting, and knowing how much you like to debate, there's probably no way I can phrase things without you trying to poke holes in it. I don't think he's stuck outside of existence, just that he's beyond such constraints.

2) I just try to do my best. That's all I can do. And if I'm unsure, I think about it a lot.

3) I hadn't posted in a while. :)

[mr_ducktape]

Scared? Hardly. In fact, I now have an idea of your mind as MUCH closer to my own than I'd previously guessed.

Just about everything that you said above I tend to agree with. I don't accept the existence of (some sort of) God as a fact, because I have no solid proof for that, but the possibility of some sort of divine is certainly an idea I lean more towards than against.

I also am very very aware of the limitations of my knowledge, and most people who are 100% certain of themselves scare me a little. I take NOTHING on faith, and always question EVERYTHING. In my opinion, it's the only way you can ever truly reach your answers - by questioning - and I'm guessing that similar mindset is one of the things that draws our kind of people together.

To bounce these ideas off more people in a productive forum - after all, one of the best ways of questioning is to ask for the opinions of intelligent others - I'd recommend posting a copy of this in interfaith_talk.

[mr_ducktape]

Until then, I don't think that I'm approaching life in a bad way, and I don't think that God would disapprove of my search for truths.

Not God, no.

Sadly, not all humans are quite as understanding....