If a deity worthy of endorsement exists, he is greater than what you or I know him to be, because he knows what he is better than we do. You don't need to take my word for it, but the nature of life is that you either prepare to meet the deity he knows himself to be, or prepare to hope that nihilism is true. If you do neither, you're not doing the basic preparation the Great Awakening calls for.
You also don't have to endorse my take on free will. But how is it that you know so soundly and surely that people cannot handle free will and will only hurt themselves with it, or that that is a Biblical teaching? Question your assumptions, because you wouldn't want to reject a God Who Is just because I or somebody taught him to you wrong. Thank you.
My gripes come from biblical theology and over 25+ in the trenches of the Christian faith, myself. I'm a prodical son of sorts but I don't see myself returning. I hope for more, but I don't believe there is... I just hope that there is.
I don't endorse any deity that would punish my sincere pursuit of truth simply because I've concluded that diety isn't real... It's hardly worthy of some of the punishments the dogmatic adherents seem I'm deserving of. Face it, it's words in a book written by man in another language; passed down through generations. For many, our roots are paramount... To me, it's not... I have a job, family and hobbies that I'd rather fill my time with. Trying to uncover the unverifiable truths of our origins isn't something I'm interested in. Because as far as I can tell... Regardless of that truth, we're all going to the same place anyway.
If a deity worthy of endorsement exists, he is greater than what you or I know him to be, because he knows what he is better than we do. You don't need to take my word for it, but the nature of life is that you either prepare to meet the deity he knows himself to be, or prepare to hope that nihilism is true. If you do neither, you're not doing the basic preparation the Great Awakening calls for.
You also don't have to endorse my take on free will. But how is it that you know so soundly and surely that people cannot handle free will and will only hurt themselves with it, or that that is a Biblical teaching? Question your assumptions, because you wouldn't want to reject a God Who Is just because I or somebody taught him to you wrong. Thank you.
My gripes come from biblical theology and over 25+ in the trenches of the Christian faith, myself. I'm a prodical son of sorts but I don't see myself returning. I hope for more, but I don't believe there is... I just hope that there is.
I don't endorse any deity that would punish my sincere pursuit of truth simply because I've concluded that diety isn't real... It's hardly worthy of some of the punishments the dogmatic adherents seem I'm deserving of. Face it, it's words in a book written by man in another language; passed down through generations. For many, our roots are paramount... To me, it's not... I have a job, family and hobbies that I'd rather fill my time with. Trying to uncover the unverifiable truths of our origins isn't something I'm interested in. Because as far as I can tell... Regardless of that truth, we're all going to the same place anyway.