Are you as forgiving as God is?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Timmy

OK, not quite true: I have a vague idea of the gist of your post. You are claiming that I don't really believe what I say I believe, namely that I do not know whether God exists. It's a weird claim, but OK, go ahead and think that. And I have a hunch I know why you (say you) think that: it's because you have to believe that everyone, deep inside, believes in God; that God made us that way, that we see God in the stars, that the Bible is true (and we have no excuse, as Paul said), that there is no possible way the universe could have come into existence except by God's conscious work (and that God is exactly the same God the Bible talks about, of course), etc.

Close?

Um, I wouldn't presuppose an answer for you here, so much as suggest that no answer becomes personally unsatisfactory, and a common method of illumination in one direction is pursuing its opposite.

While, yes, I do agree with your post, I believe one can find God absent any preconceptions, and don't mean to say that you "don't really believe what you say you believe," rather that what you believe is often the stance of someone who, quite fairly, has simply not discovered enough "evidence" to decide, and that this ultimately becomes unsatisfying; which seems counter-intuitive, actually--you would think a lack of certainty here would feel normal, hmm...