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<blockquote data-quote="Route 66" data-source="post: 1328304" data-attributes="member: 40816"><p>I hear ya, MFE. I've asked those same questions so many times myself.</p><p></p><p>It's true the world is full of tragedy. So much that it seems only normal that any prudent-thinking individual would question "could there really be a God?" Look at Sandy Hook for example. Incidents like that cause many to shake their fist at the sky and curse such a god. </p><p></p><p>But there's a lot of beautiful and amazing things in the world as well. I like to use as one example the human eye. No man can re-create the eye. It is a remarkable device far more complex than the most modern of cameras. Yet eyes have been around for how long now? - thousands of years at least.</p><p></p><p> It's just impossible for me to fathom that something so wondrous could have been created out of some chance cosmic collision between a dirty snowball and a rock (or whatever scenario) Yet so many want to think that that's more plausible an explanation than the existence of God.</p><p></p><p>I have to live for now in the faith that one day all will be revealed. The Bible says man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower and withers away. Like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Each man's life is but a breath - a mist that appears for a moment and then vanishes.</p><p> </p><p>So I have to remind myself (daily) that although my personal difficulties, all my aches and pains and family dramas and work woes and what-have-you...in the context of eternity (which is one heck of a long time) this little 80 or 90 year stint or however many years God wills me to stumble around on this rock, is truly nothing at all.</p><p></p><p>To go back to my Sandy Hook reference. I believe those children who experienced such unbelievable terror on that day, went straight into the arms of God, and in an instant felt that they had just returned Home.....because they had - infintesimally greater than their earthly one.</p><p></p><p>But that's just <em>my</em> faith, and I hope I'm not coming across as trying to jam religion down anyone's throat...Not attempting to put anyone's beliefs (or lack there of) down, or tell anyone else that they're right or wrong, just hoping to get my perspective across without coming across as "preachy". I had many many people try to preach "the word" to me and I resisted with all the very same arguments I've read here. It wasn't until I finally "surrendered" that I was able to come to the foot of the cross and actually get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Route 66, post: 1328304, member: 40816"] I hear ya, MFE. I've asked those same questions so many times myself. It's true the world is full of tragedy. So much that it seems only normal that any prudent-thinking individual would question "could there really be a God?" Look at Sandy Hook for example. Incidents like that cause many to shake their fist at the sky and curse such a god. But there's a lot of beautiful and amazing things in the world as well. I like to use as one example the human eye. No man can re-create the eye. It is a remarkable device far more complex than the most modern of cameras. Yet eyes have been around for how long now? - thousands of years at least. It's just impossible for me to fathom that something so wondrous could have been created out of some chance cosmic collision between a dirty snowball and a rock (or whatever scenario) Yet so many want to think that that's more plausible an explanation than the existence of God. I have to live for now in the faith that one day all will be revealed. The Bible says man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower and withers away. Like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Each man's life is but a breath - a mist that appears for a moment and then vanishes. So I have to remind myself (daily) that although my personal difficulties, all my aches and pains and family dramas and work woes and what-have-you...in the context of eternity (which is one heck of a long time) this little 80 or 90 year stint or however many years God wills me to stumble around on this rock, is truly nothing at all. To go back to my Sandy Hook reference. I believe those children who experienced such unbelievable terror on that day, went straight into the arms of God, and in an instant felt that they had just returned Home.....because they had - infintesimally greater than their earthly one. But that's just [I]my[/I] faith, and I hope I'm not coming across as trying to jam religion down anyone's throat...Not attempting to put anyone's beliefs (or lack there of) down, or tell anyone else that they're right or wrong, just hoping to get my perspective across without coming across as "preachy". I had many many people try to preach "the word" to me and I resisted with all the very same arguments I've read here. It wasn't until I finally "surrendered" that I was able to come to the foot of the cross and actually get it. [/QUOTE]
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