So today I had the privilege of hanging out with some of my favorite people. What made the day interesting is a debate, discussion, or whatever you want to call it...about spiritual things. I admit...being a Christian is hard, especially when you start questioning things that your supposed to believe in. These friends of mine brought a fresh breath of air and some interesting thoughts. I think that asking hard questions has always made me scared, and I noticed myself sort of just listening to the whole thing as opposed to participating.
Here are some of the questions raised...
1. If God is all powerful and a good God, why does he allow bad things to happen?
2. If God knows what we are going to do before we do it, how can we say that we have free will?
3. What about people that don't believe in God because a) they have never heard of him or b) they choose not to believe.....do they go to hell?
You might be thinking, wow, this girl is a Christian and she can't answer these hard questions?! These are the things her faith is based on.
I realized that I need to really wrestle with these questions instead of being afraid of them.
3 comments:
Yeah! She's BACK!!! You got it girl. Fear will get you nowhere. God doesn't want us to be passive. He wrestled with Jacob in Genesis. Jesus addressed all the questions asked to him. Keep at it!
I'm so glad you posted again! These questions are all good stuff but have been fought over by theologians for years. The good part is that if it doesn't matter what side of those issues you land on. Your salvation is based on Jesus not why you believe bad things happen.
I think its awesome that you thinking on those hard questions. I know i can't answer any of them. I can give guess and ideas that i have and i know some vary well educated Christians who will say i don't know and will give you there opinion. So try not to get cought up in the questions themselves, just have faith that God does have a reason behind them. Keep on posting friend!!!
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