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Originally Posted by mfblume
I respect your thoughts. I found for myself that opinions I may have about God will likely be limited due to my lack of knowing all the details that God would definitely know, so I am open for clarification when questions arise. I know that if God is real, and certainly believe it is (just speaking rhetorically), then His wisdom is so vast that my understanding of Him is simply less than scratching the surface. So I exert faith. I trust Him. When it looks like He did something odd, I trust He has just cause involving reasons I may not comprehend. God is too big for me to think otherwise.
And I really do find serving Him awesomely easy and simple. I have battles of course, but it gets better all the time, despite battles. And I am seeing more and more wonders and miracles all the time.
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To be fair, I don't believe that I know everything, or understand everything about God. I believe He exists, and I do believe that it's impossible for a mere human being to ever truly understand Him. However, thus far in my journey, I find the idea of a genocidal God irreconcilable with a God of love.
(I also find it ironic that most Christians condemn the Oral Roberts types for saying that 9/11 or Hurricaine Katrina was God punishing us for some type of sin or other. But these same Christians have no problem believing that God acted that way in the past!)
And I do, in my own way, have faith in God. Of course, my faith lies more in the direction in believing that it's OK for me to make mistakes. That it's OK to be wrong, and not to know everything. That every single decision and action that I do in the course of living my life does not have dire eternal consequences for myself and everyone around me.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't live under that kind of pressure!
I also have faith that everything DOESN'T happen for a reason. I don't think God allows people to get sick, and children to die, and other horrible things to teach them, or humble them. I don't think it's all part of his master plan.
And lastly I have faith that God understands my doubts, my questions, my skepticism, and that he not only forgives me of it, but actually loves me because of it. And maybe it's not the optimal that I keep Him at arm's length, but I think he understands, even better than I do, why I do so.