12-21-2020, 01:34 PM
Mark,
I was raised Southern Baptist, took awhile to break free. My parents died in my late twenties, so I could quit even pretending. Even from a young age I had trouble buying the doctrine. By the time I was 10, I was putting the preacher off by asking questions like: "If the only way to get to heaven is through belief in Jesus, what happened to all those Asian people who never heard of him? Them dying and going to Hell seems a bit unfair and seems counter to your idea of a loving and forgiving "God", (although I doubt that I put that concisely). Most people, when they talk about a god, act as god is Santa Clause. Even the Bible doesn't support that. I have had events that defy rationality that is an epiphanous experience. I've had many of these and I know it does not arise from my conscious mind. So from where does it come? That somewhere I suppose one could call God.
Thoughts?
dale
I was raised Southern Baptist, took awhile to break free. My parents died in my late twenties, so I could quit even pretending. Even from a young age I had trouble buying the doctrine. By the time I was 10, I was putting the preacher off by asking questions like: "If the only way to get to heaven is through belief in Jesus, what happened to all those Asian people who never heard of him? Them dying and going to Hell seems a bit unfair and seems counter to your idea of a loving and forgiving "God", (although I doubt that I put that concisely). Most people, when they talk about a god, act as god is Santa Clause. Even the Bible doesn't support that. I have had events that defy rationality that is an epiphanous experience. I've had many of these and I know it does not arise from my conscious mind. So from where does it come? That somewhere I suppose one could call God.
Thoughts?
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.