I mean no disrespect, but after reading your post, all I can think is that you have missed the point of faith. In my experience, you cannot rationalize God, you just have to believe. It sounds simple, but it is not always easy.
Religion, philosophy, theology, and my general views on how the world works are so entwined that it is difficult to discuss any related topic while maintaining an ordered narrative. This is my fifth attempt to write this essay and I am strictly holding myself back from bringing in highly involved topics like free will, the difference between faith and fact, self-congratulatory disrespect, monochromatic thinking, the role of the church, general social theory, and a point by point dissection of my personal theology. Hopefully this restraint will result in an essay that is both coherent and relatively brief
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When asked what the chief commandment in the Bible was, Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-40). This isn’t a solitary moment of charitable feeling either. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). You can think you’re the best Christian on earth, follow all the rules, and never do anything wrong, but if you don’t have love you have missed the point
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