Sorry to sound offensive; I only wish to point you in the direction of objective truth and reality. There is no ill will in trying to save another from a future apart from God. Differences have to come up; people have to feel offended, because worldviews are at stake; someone's whole view of objective reality, of truth, is at stake.
I think I understand your point about changing identities and personal failure being good things. But I am talking much more fundamentally, the kind of identity question that comes up when someone lies on his deathbed and ponders the biggest questions of why in life. Christians become parents, want to be good ones, become writers or artists and want to be good ones of those, but at the base of it all is the stability of belonging with God. Jobs and roles change, but their state in eternity does not.
As so many people in society have abandoned the concept of eternity (and all things supernatural), they've turned to try to find internal significance and purpose in themselves. But if evolution is true, someone's concept of self-worth and purpose is unfortunately a placebo. And I do mean "unfortunately" because I know what I say sounds heartless and cruel to someone who holds to that view. But what can you tell a smiling patient who feels fine but still has the cancer fundamentally uncured? But back to my point, evolution says we are mere cells out to reproduce cells. Several atheists can be quoted saying that such a life truly has no meaning, because they realize that a life void of the spiritual and abstract cannot truthfully, honestly contain the spiritual and abstract.
Indeed, the "miraculous" in nature is truly miraculous. Nature has no mind to create all this, just as a painting or a watch has no mind. The miraculous coincidence that had to happen for life to exist and remain and propagate are statistically impossible to have come about by mere mindless chance. The belief of atheists, for example, that the world came together through blind chance like this is just as much a leap of faith as a Christian would take (thought atheists take a much greater leap in my estimation, since a non-physical Creator has much more evidence on its side).
Sorry to sound offensive; I only wish to point you in the direction of objective truth and reality. There is no ill will in trying to save another from a future apart from God. Differences have to come up; people have to feel offended, because worldviews are at stake; someone's whole view of objective reality, of truth, is at stake.
I think I understand your point about changing identities and personal failure being good things. But I am talking much more fundamentally, the kind of identity question that comes up when someone lies on his deathbed and ponders the biggest questions of why in life. Christians become parents, want to be good ones, become writers or artists and want to be good ones of those, but at the base of it all is the stability of belonging with God. Jobs and roles change, but their state in eternity does not.
As so many people in society have abandoned the concept of eternity (and all things supernatural), they've turned to try to find internal significance and purpose in themselves. But if evolution is true, someone's concept of self-worth and purpose is unfortunately a placebo. And I do mean "unfortunately" because I know what I say sounds heartless and cruel to someone who holds to that view. But what can you tell a smiling patient who feels fine but still has the cancer fundamentally uncured? But back to my point, evolution says we are mere cells out to reproduce cells. Several atheists can be quoted saying that such a life truly has no meaning, because they realize that a life void of the spiritual and abstract cannot truthfully, honestly contain the spiritual and abstract.
Indeed, the "miraculous" in nature is truly miraculous. Nature has no mind to create all this, just as a painting or a watch has no mind. The miraculous coincidence that had to happen for life to exist and remain and propagate are statistically impossible to have come about by mere mindless chance. The belief of atheists, for example, that the world came together through blind chance like this is just as much a leap of faith as a Christian would take (thought atheists take a much greater leap in my estimation, since a non-physical Creator has much more evidence on its side).
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