coemgen
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cool thread, indra. what does it mean to you to hear all this? Can I ask why you asked?
intedomine said:
politicians who manifest their belief or disbelief in God should not be politicians.
coemgen said:cool thread, indra. what does it mean to you to hear all this? Can I ask why you asked?
Anthony said:I do not find comfort believing in something that may have been fabricated out of my need for comfort.
Got Philk? said:Irvine, I agree and hate the phrase "unanswered prayers". But to me, it doesn't waiver my faith. I think God hears our prayers every one. And if they go "unanswered" or don't happen, then it wasn't his will for us. For example, when I was in eight grade, I was happy, had friends and all that. When I first heard my dad say, "I got a call to be a pastor in Iowa, I prayed that God would not have us go. Well, a week later, we moved and my parents still live there after 8 years. But when I look back now and look where my life and my Christianity were going, I guess maybe then God did answer my prayer, just against what I wanted.
I don't mean to begin a debate on this topic and hope I didn't go into the things you didn't want me to touch. But this is what I think.
I know this probably sounds funny to you, but theoretically some believe that Lincoln's troubled marriage with Mary Todd was set up by God in order for him to prepare to cope with the obstacles he would face ahead of them. If he had the perfect marriage, could he have been prepared to handle the opposition he was dealt with? I would like to believe it was God's will, it IS JUST MY OPINION, but I would like to use Honest Abe as an example.Irvine511 said:i mean this with all due respect, but it sounds to me like you're doing what i just described: something happens, and then you retroactively justify it as "god's will." what if it had been horrible and your parents had hated every minute? would this then have been a lesson from God in how to deal with adversity? would it have been a lesson in how to cope with change?
what these things always sound like, to me, is that no matter what the result is, you would have found a way to interpret it so that it becomes another piece of evidence supporting your belief in God and in God's plan.
is there anything that could happen to you that could cause you to lose faith in God?
annj said:I just don't believe to find some delusional comfort
that is an insult to my intelligence.. I question I search I look around me weigh up the evidence I am not fooling myself ..