“Yes you can do this but I prefer to keep my mind involved. There is nothing like 100% proof but that does not mean we need no proof. Atheists claim they need none while demanding 100% from Theists. How convenient!"
True. Hence the point of my topic “Prove me Wrong”.
I guess you like to be a book; I like to be a sheet of paper. I expose myself in a raw, unprepared way. I allow structure to be built and destroyed as I walk the path of my life; whereas you build and repair, disassemble and destroy based on your intake and based on a pre-determined path laid out for you.
In my mind there cannot be 100% proof. Seeking that proof is futile at best. Perfection for example cannot exist. You can’t say that something is perfect because perfection is extremely subjective. The bible has a lot to say about perfection and one could say that only God can know perfection. But then belief in Perfection has to be done without evidence. There is nothing in this world we can call perfect with absolute certainty and thus we have no proof of it. Due to faiths reliance on Proof we’re left with a gap or crack.
God Fearing… Doing right to go to Heaven. Hell as a concept. Angels, Job, Matthew, Exodus… In the end the dots don’t connect. My only choice if I wish to remain spiritual is to fill in those gaps with “I don’t know.” I’m not filling that with God, Miracles or other biblical things because that’s too easy and it really doesn’t answer anything.
I’m patient and I want to know for myself. Instead of looking at the holy books and involving myself in religion I’ve said “Screw it” and exposed myself to life raw and unrestrained.
When I was a Christian I had certainty and safety. It blinded me and restricted me but it allowed me to go on without feeling empty; devoid of answers. I feel now that I can see things as they truly are. And what I see is not sinners and saints; I see people. I see a world that evolved into what it is. I don’t see a Scale with Good on one side and Evil on the other. I see an infinite number of choices and their results.
Grief as we were talking about is an example of something that would restore or strip someone of their faith. I could expand on that and say it’s the unknown that strips or restores someone of their faith. When your wife is killed in a senseless act without answers what do you do?
To me I can almost see reason in everything. It all makes sense. I don’t need God to be involved for the world to exist and continue to exist as it is. I stripped myself of certainty and instead of giving up I search for reason. I found it and that’s Balance. It’s the simplest of ideas. It’s blindingly obvious that logic connects everything. You don’t need God. It’s harmonious and it connects you to deeper meaning in life.
When you can look at the beauty of the world and associate that not to a creator but to the struggles of billions of years of life, you can come to realize something. God didn’t make this, we did. If you take God out of the equation and find a source without him… you can then put him back in and find him in a totally different place.
That’s what it means to Grow Up. Awareness of God is not the highest thing we can do. We need to be aware of ourselves. That’s where we can truly find greatness.
Edited by Lister, 16 August 2012 - 12:27 AM.