An attempt to put into words the logic that is behind my faith.
I recently had a discussion with someone very close to me. This person has been reading books and taking philosophy courses and seems to be questioning the following (and perhaps more, our conversation was not long).
This post is an email exchange between an atheist friend and myself. I will add to this as the conversation continues.
Dear Friend,
I have a story below I would like to use to initiate a conversation. Please don’t look at this as a set up for a trap and try to find a way around it. You know I’m not out to “win” and I won’t “rub your nose …
A True Story
There once were two men who both had a lot of land. In some places their land was very, very close to each other, in other places more distant. For the sake of storytelling, lets name them Edwin and Alfred.
After a while Edwin decided he really wanted a certain piece of Alfred’s land. He knew it was a prized piece of land and Alfred would not …
This is an email exchange between myself and a atheist that I consider a good friend. I had been answering his questions in email form for some time. He gave me the opportunity to reverse the process and ask him something and this is how it went. It was an email exchange that I will try to put in the form of a post and comments.
Questions: Shouldn’t prayer be useless? Imagine you are a young teenager and your mom is sick in the hospital with cancer and almost about to die. You pray to god that she be healed and make a full recovery, but this is pointless for two reasons that go very well together. 1) God is all-knowing and has a perfect plan for you and he is never-changing (Number 23:19). God, being …
You said you were tired of people telling you to just have faith. I agreed that too often people say that as opposed to studying, thinking and investigating. However, feeling like you need to understand everything is also not a good idea for 1 reasons.
First, the need to understand everything keeps you from progressing. I’ll use this line and points as an example.
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Imagine that …
If you are looking at which religion show the most increase in adherents, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world. To ask why, is very reasonable. It doesn’t really fit into my discussion here, but I like the answer so well I am posting it anyway.
I think the best answer for this was written by Dinesh d’Souza in a book call “What’s So Great About Christianity” and …
This was a very interesting question I had never been presented with before, and at first I found it very perplexing. But after consideration and prayer, it actually lead me to greater faith.
First, we need to clarify that someone can do wrong without necessarily understanding why what they did was wrong. For example, if you tell a child not to throw stones, and they throw a stone, they have …
Your question at first seems reasonable and your assertion correct, but even in our small human lives we don’t do what you are asking God to do.
Imagine you are man fortunate enough to have a great wife. You and your wife love each other immensely and are also intensely passionate toward each other. Your marriage is every person’s dream. Also imagine you are a father and you have a …
Again, this question is really answered in the previous two posts, and , but I want to take the opportunity to explain something very important about the Bible.
When you take something from the Bible, you must take it from the context of the entire Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, and try to understand it from the perspective of the true author, which I believe is God, so he …