Meriweather
Not all who wander are lost
- Oct 21, 2014
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My guess is even if religion is all man made up, you believe the benefits outweigh the negatives.
You guess wrong. I, too, believe the truth is the better way. I know you have no belief, but I am telling you, God exists. I cannot ignore that truth any more than I can ignore what is directly in front of me. Some people have a choice of whether to believe or not to believe, but I'm not one of them.
I understand what you are saying about people of Jewish Scripture, Christian Scripture, Muslim Scripture, and Mormon beliefs. I'm simply saying it is a mistake to conclude errors in Holy books add up to no God. Errors in holy books merely add up to errors in human thinking about God.
From my own experience, I can only testify to three things about God:
1) He cares deeply.
2) His love is beyond imagining.
3) He honors free will.
I cannot testify that He created heaven and earth, that He sent Jesus to redeem the world, and multitude of other things that I do believe through faith. It is my belief in Christ, not my own personal knowledge, that gives me the unbreakable trust that God also forgives sins. I cannot testify to God's forgiveness of sins.
Unlike some others here, the Catholic faith has done me a world of good, mostly because I understood what we learn as children needs quite a bit of relearning when we become adults. We forget that when we are children, we think as children, act as children. Especially when it comes to religion and theology, once we are adults we need to put away what is taught to children and learn as adults.
Anyway, since truth does matter to you, I just wanted you to know God Is.