03-06-2007, 10:42 AM
Icecub Wrote:Since my Dad passed in 2001, I have been on a long long sabbatical, delving in different things - looking for answers and wondering about things,
going back to my childhood and being very very bitter about things forced down our throats regarding religion - being hurt by christian's atittudes.......:noway:
I have joined an Atheist's site - no i am not an Atheist - but i have been looking into different things - I have been looking at all the different debates, all the reasoning and seeing things differently from different angles and frankly slowly coming to a conclusion and thinking i am more Agnostic than Christian or Atheism.
orry:
Are any of you going thru this type of thing, and have you found your answer yet?
Please do not judge me - i have not judged you!:thumbs:
Dear Icecub,
You are not alone; I do not accept the New Testament interpretation that finds only Christians will be saved. I do not believe that a caring God would exclude other faiths who also believe in a divine creator. I tend to regard Atheism as a belief held by closed minds. I like the quote from a biologist who stated that the probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of an unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a print shop. It is natural to question faith. If we had incontrovertible proof of our creator then faith would not be required.
Closed minded exclusion or derision of those considered outside the fold by “Christians†is clearly identified by the bible as un Christian action. There is a lot of truth to the saying "Don't take God's name in vain"