to have faith <3
i have been talking to my brother lately about God and who He is. Steve is having some doubt and is caught up all all of the idiosyncrasies that exist in religion. He really thinks that God is just something that humans invented to fill the void that science was not capable of fulfilling...until now. Now that we are discovering new logical answers to inexplicable questions every day, Steve doesn't see the need for belief in a higher power.
It hurts me.
Why is believing so hard? Why can we all be presented with the same facts and see it all in completely different ways? I see a sunset and i say, thank you, God" while others see the same sunset and start thinking about how tiny and insignificant we are compared to the rest of the solar system and the galaxies beyond. How?
I am not a fundamentalist. I don't believe that the first man was necessarily named Adam and that Eve was pried from his rib in order to create our entire civilization. Darwin was probably right: we could have easily come from monkeys; the evidence all seems to add up in his favor. Still, didn't there have to be a definitive moment when we were considered humans and apes went on to continue being apes? How did that happen? Who was responsible? God.
All i have seen in my life just renews in me the ability to believe in a higher power. Sometimes i catch myself doubting...everything Steve says seems to make so much sense. Still, there is something in me that tells me to believe. Faith: it is so easy to have and so hard to believe in at the same time.
Steve and I were talking about salvation and how ridiculous it seems that faith is your ticket to heaven. Sometimes it just seems to easy, you know? It's like so all i have to do is believe that this big guy in heaven exists and i'm in? ok!
But at the same time, faith, true belief in God, is so hard to have. The notion of God really does sound funny when you step back and think about it. This huge being up in the cluuds who has the ability to watch everything we do. He sees us hate Him, spite Him, spread terrible lies about Him, and use His name against Him all of the time and yet...His love is endless? His forgiveness is final? It seems to surreal. And although some of us might come to buy into the idea of Him in our heads...maybe out of curiosity or possibly out of fear, how many of us believe in God with our hearts as well? Maybe believing is God with your whole heart in the face of this world - is actually the hardest and most fulfilling thing a human being can do. Perhaps God's ticket into Heaven isn't as easy to possess all we might think.
It hurts me.
Why is believing so hard? Why can we all be presented with the same facts and see it all in completely different ways? I see a sunset and i say, thank you, God" while others see the same sunset and start thinking about how tiny and insignificant we are compared to the rest of the solar system and the galaxies beyond. How?
I am not a fundamentalist. I don't believe that the first man was necessarily named Adam and that Eve was pried from his rib in order to create our entire civilization. Darwin was probably right: we could have easily come from monkeys; the evidence all seems to add up in his favor. Still, didn't there have to be a definitive moment when we were considered humans and apes went on to continue being apes? How did that happen? Who was responsible? God.
All i have seen in my life just renews in me the ability to believe in a higher power. Sometimes i catch myself doubting...everything Steve says seems to make so much sense. Still, there is something in me that tells me to believe. Faith: it is so easy to have and so hard to believe in at the same time.
Steve and I were talking about salvation and how ridiculous it seems that faith is your ticket to heaven. Sometimes it just seems to easy, you know? It's like so all i have to do is believe that this big guy in heaven exists and i'm in? ok!
But at the same time, faith, true belief in God, is so hard to have. The notion of God really does sound funny when you step back and think about it. This huge being up in the cluuds who has the ability to watch everything we do. He sees us hate Him, spite Him, spread terrible lies about Him, and use His name against Him all of the time and yet...His love is endless? His forgiveness is final? It seems to surreal. And although some of us might come to buy into the idea of Him in our heads...maybe out of curiosity or possibly out of fear, how many of us believe in God with our hearts as well? Maybe believing is God with your whole heart in the face of this world - is actually the hardest and most fulfilling thing a human being can do. Perhaps God's ticket into Heaven isn't as easy to possess all we might think.