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I can’t believe… Suffer Not the Children
Posted by Brad in i can't believe on March 12th, 2009
I can’t believe in a God who’s intentional plan includes our suffering.
I understand the theological position of original sin and, although I was born with sin and didn’t have a choice or a chance not to sin, that I am still morally culpable for my behaviour and therefore condemned to eternal hell unless I repent. I just can’t believe it anymore. It doesn’t make sense. God is all powerful and all knowing and all love… and there is incredible and horrific suffering at every moment in every part of the world. Either God intended our suffering by knowing it would come and still allowing it to pass or he didn’t intend it and therefore not all knowing. Either way. I don’t buy it.
i can’t believe… The accidental tourist
Posted by Brad in i can't believe on March 10th, 2009
I can’t believe that everything is just a miraculous mistake or a cataclysmic accident.
Maybe it’s the years of indoctrination. Maybe it’s the still small voice. Maybe it’s a dream that the tooth fairy plants in my easily persuaded and naive mind. Regardless, the one thing that for me is evidence of something greater than myself (yah, I guess I am pretty great), is the complexity and audacity of the natural world. I can’t believe everything, including the seemingly infinite and eternal size of the universe, is nothing more than millions of tiny evolutionary deviations and mutations piled on top of each other over frigillions of years. I’d like to think I’m a hopeful agnostic - but that path isn’t clear yet.
I can’t believe…
Posted by Brad in i can't believe on March 7th, 2009
… in a God that has ignored me for 35 years
I just have to think, that if there was a loving, relating and personal God, he would have shared a beer or two with me at some point. It’s been like looking for the eternal g-spot that everyone else seems to believe they’ve found. I didn’t need God in the trees and the wind and the ‘did you feel that chill?’. He walks with us and talks with us… actually, no he didn’t. You told me he would and did and does and I just had to believe it. And when my mind told me something good, that was the whispers of God.