This part of Q is not good! Have faith in humanity? Seriously!? Jesus said that the human heart is beyond wicked! I can only have faith in Jesus...having faith in humanity is akin to trying to use a flame thrower to clean the inside of an igloo! So far...I have absolutely NO FAITH in humanity at all! Isn't it humanity that got us here in the first place. We stopped trusting God and put our faith in humanity (Darwinism, Situation Ethics, Multiculturalism, Humanism, Earth Worship, New Age bullshit...etc.)...for goodness sake, the first lie that Satan told Eve was that she could become like God...translation...trust yourself...do what thou wilt...trust humanity...we don't need God...we only need ourselves...we can make our own decisions...make our own destiny's apart from God's rules!
Well said. I have faith God can move mountains (nations). I have faith He can raise up and take down. I do not have faith in humanity, but I do have faith that God's Spirit and His voice does call to His children to wake up and cry for justice.
If I am honest and you are honest with yourself, we both know that when it comes to certain things, we (I) cannot trust ourselves. I've had my belief system rocked too many times to trust my own evaluation of "things." Of course there are times when I get it right, but it's always because my beliefs paralleled what God's Word teaches. I used to be a dispensationalist because growing up, that's what the church taught and I never studied the matter on my own. When I did, I could clearly see that God's word didn't teach this in the least. My belief system was rocked. I couldn't trust my own belief on this subject ultimately because my belief wasn't based on anything other than what I'd heard other people say on the subject.
Its true that anyone can make mistakes. Mistakes are required for learning, for updating your beliefs about the world. Trusting yourself doesn't mean believing you're always right. It means running all incoming information thru your own judgement, asking yourself, "does this make sense to me based on what I currently believe?". If it doesn't, reject or at least hold in suspicion the information. Don't accept it just because some supposed authority figure with a big hat on TV told you. Maybe new information comes in later than corroborates it, maybe not. In any case, if you never update your beliefs about something, you have chosen to stop learning about that thing.
The truth is not afraid to be questioned and doesn't need to be supported by censorship.
This part of Q is not good! Have faith in humanity? Seriously!? Jesus said that the human heart is beyond wicked! I can only have faith in Jesus...having faith in humanity is akin to trying to use a flame thrower to clean the inside of an igloo! So far...I have absolutely NO FAITH in humanity at all! Isn't it humanity that got us here in the first place. We stopped trusting God and put our faith in humanity (Darwinism, Situation Ethics, Multiculturalism, Humanism, Earth Worship, New Age bullshit...etc.)...for goodness sake, the first lie that Satan told Eve was that she could become like God...translation...trust yourself...do what thou wilt...trust humanity...we don't need God...we only need ourselves...we can make our own decisions...make our own destiny's apart from God's rules!
Well said. I have faith God can move mountains (nations). I have faith He can raise up and take down. I do not have faith in humanity, but I do have faith that God's Spirit and His voice does call to His children to wake up and cry for justice.
Sounds like you don't even trust yourself
If I am honest and you are honest with yourself, we both know that when it comes to certain things, we (I) cannot trust ourselves. I've had my belief system rocked too many times to trust my own evaluation of "things." Of course there are times when I get it right, but it's always because my beliefs paralleled what God's Word teaches. I used to be a dispensationalist because growing up, that's what the church taught and I never studied the matter on my own. When I did, I could clearly see that God's word didn't teach this in the least. My belief system was rocked. I couldn't trust my own belief on this subject ultimately because my belief wasn't based on anything other than what I'd heard other people say on the subject.
Its true that anyone can make mistakes. Mistakes are required for learning, for updating your beliefs about the world. Trusting yourself doesn't mean believing you're always right. It means running all incoming information thru your own judgement, asking yourself, "does this make sense to me based on what I currently believe?". If it doesn't, reject or at least hold in suspicion the information. Don't accept it just because some supposed authority figure with a big hat on TV told you. Maybe new information comes in later than corroborates it, maybe not. In any case, if you never update your beliefs about something, you have chosen to stop learning about that thing.
The truth is not afraid to be questioned and doesn't need to be supported by censorship.