Hmmmmmm . . . probably not.
At least not for your sake.
If this helps you and your faith, great. If not, don't feel a need to judge yourself on that. Too often do we seek validation and enlightenment from others, I think, to whom we ascribe far more authority and credibility than they are due. Take actors' opinions in politics and economics, for example.
'nuff said.
Is this in response to something, or just another random thought?
ReplyDeleteNo, this isn't in response to anything, but it's not supposed to be random, either. Whatever I write here, it's going to be something I've been thinking about a lot at that time. When I wrote the blog about children being a legacy, for example, that idea had been bouncing around in my head for a while.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Karen, I originally intended to respond to your previous comment, as I've made a point to respond to other comments before, but the longer I tried, the more I decided that I'd best not.
First of all, I just didn't know how to. It didn't sound like you were exactly disagreeing with my blog, but you certainly weren't agreeing with it either. You had about six different ideas you threw out there, none of which seemed to be begging a question or a response, which left me in the dark as far as how to address them.
Secondly, even if I COULD have muscled out counter-arguments to what you were saying (though I'm still not even sure if that's what you were looking for), I would be contradicting myself. After all, a significant portion of what I wrote was about how I see no point in debating religion with Atheists, and countering your points would be . . . well, debating religion with an Atheist. (shrug?)
People don't come to the debate table of topics like religion, sex, and politics with the intent of changing their stance, but to change others' stances. After all, you can't possibly be interested enough in a topic to debate it, and not already have an opinion. That's just not logical. People aren't interested in baseball without having a favorite team, nor do people study religion and politics unless they have strong opinions one way or another. My point in saying this is that . . . I'm not so sure I believe it's productive to debate those topics, because anyone going into a debate already has their mind made up. Heck, the very ACT of debating puts people on the defensive, which naturally makes us even MORE stubborn with our opinions. No one likes to acquiesce their beliefs. Anyway, I know it was long winded, but this is my shortest explanation on why I don't like debating such topics-- I generally think it's a waste of time. When it comes to Christianity, and preaching the Gospel, the key is living the gospel by example first, and debating last (kinda like the Jedi, and how they're only supposed to fight as a last resort).
Does that help? Sorry I took so long.
yeah, it all comes down to our low vision of God. In essence, we think His opinion isn't enough. Sad but true.
ReplyDeletep.s. write something else:)
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