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Date Posted: 05:13:36 07/23/07 Mon
Author: Joan
Author Host/IP: ip68-0-253-131.ri.ri.cox.net / 68.0.253.131
Subject: Faith.
In reply to: Neysa 's message, "How can we believe in a God we can not see ?" on 17:39:42 07/22/07 Sun

Isn't that an annoying answer? lol

I don't have a better answer for you. I think people look for ultimate causes for everything, so why not for human existance and the meaning of life?

People seem to be made to search for God, whatever they might believe about him (or her, or them) or call him.

Joan

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[> Re: How can we believe in a God we can not see ? -- Catie, 06:34:33 07/23/07 Mon [1] (h166.243.213.151.ip.alltel.net/151.213.243.166)

The hardest thing I have had to conquer as a Christian is understanding the concept of a loving God who allows pain and suffering of good people.

When someone you know, someone you love, dies from a disease that's ravaged their body with pain, stripped them of dignity and prolonged their suffering as well as the suffering of those who love them as they helplessly look on, it's easy to question everything. Yet through it all, I can't help but believe in a loving God. Some would say believers are brainwashed. Some would say they're crazy. For who has seen God? Who, living today, can say they know for a fact he/she exist? It all boils down to faith. We have a choice. We can choose to believe in a loving God who is in control or we can believe we are here by chance, left to our own devises. I always go back to the scriptute in Job. After all the terrible things happened to him, afer everyone turned their backs on him, they asked how a loving God could afflict so much pain on one person, he said matter of factly, "It rains on the just and the unjust. Let the rain fall where it will." That man had faith. That's all I have too, Faith. I believe that God "hung the world on nothing".

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[> [> By the way -- Catie, 08:49:31 07/23/07 Mon [1] (h166.243.213.151.ip.alltel.net/151.213.243.166)

(left to their own "devises") was meant as a play on words.

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