thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-11, TonyLB wrote:
Vincent, please believe me when I say that I am not being glib in what follows. I have a simple question, and there is some possibility for humor in it, as there is humor woven into many of the most important things in the world, but I would never, ever, want that humor to defuse the discussion.
As it happened, I led myself out of my false beliefs and into truer ones, until I woke up one morning and set God aside.
Couldn't this be God's answer to you?
As paradoxical as it seems ... the fact that you came to a conclusion that you needed to stop looking to God does not mean that God didn't answer your prayers and lead you to that conclusion.
Which is not to say that you should reconsider that conclusion ... indeed, if you were led there by God then it was probably for a damn fine reason.
Just ... I don't know. I look at the many different people out there, and I see how they need different things, and ... If there is a conscious God I don't think God would try to pigeonhole us all into the same answer, and so I don't see a diversity of answers as evidence of an absent or uncaring God.
