pogi Posted March 13, 2013 Posted March 13, 2013 (edited) The God who was so deeply involved in his community seems much more distant.This is a matter of perception and perspective. Because you don't see it, or hear it, doesn't mean he is not active all around you. Christ taught that there are those who receive not of the fruit of that which they clearly see and hear. He teaches this in the parable of the sower found in Mark 4. Why could they not see? They did not "let" themselves see (remind you of anyone?). "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." I have no interest in knowing for certain. Certainty, for me, derails faith and hope.I can't understand why you would actively choose spiritual blindness when he who offers sight to the blind invites us to see, hear, and know. To those who "let" themselves see and hear, "it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God" (Mark 4:11). He wants us to know. He invites us to ask, seek, and knock, that we might find. Certainty does not derail faith and hope, it fulfills it. Even with certainty in one aspect, there will always be room for faith and hope until we know God in His fullness. True faith is that we can know Him intimately in this life. There is no active faith in simply waiting until death. Edited March 13, 2013 by pogi
Damien the Leper Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 I don't have blind faith. Blind faith would be following scripture or prophets because somewhere along the way "God said so". I have numerous questions and I question those questions. There is never a fully satisfying answer to my questions. However, there are more questions to investigate. Read what is blue in my signature...those are some of the wisest words and advice I have ever received. You and I seem to be talking past each other. Perhaps we should end this discussion.
pogi Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) I don't have blind faith. Blind faith would be following scripture or prophets because somewhere along the way "God said so". I have numerous questions and I question those questions. There is never a fully satisfying answer to my questions. However, there are more questions to investigate. Read what is blue in my signature...those are some of the wisest words and advice I have ever received.You and I seem to be talking past each other. Perhaps we should end this discussion.Great quote by Greg Epstein! I agree, no religion has all of the answers, but I think it would be equally important to run for the hills from any religion that does not point you in the right direction to find answers to your questions, namely God.I agree, I think we are talking past each other and should probably end this discussion, but I cannot resist putting in one last quote for you to consider:"...add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:5-8 ).Best wishes! Edited March 14, 2013 by pogi
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