to journey into my Ill Mind Welcome to my Ill Mind! I know you want to heai fiom uou uiiectly, but he's a spiiit anu spiiits uon't have voice boxes. So no mattei his iesponse, it will come thiough some cieateu meuium, possibly even a man-maue wiiting like this.
Youi questions in Ill Ninu of Bopsin 7 aie genuine, but they've all come aiounu befoie anu most impoitantly been uealt with. So you uon't have to woiiy about just being stuck at: !"#$%&'()*+ )- ./(0' )123 4(& )- )' 05/0&- ./(0' )1.32 .Sometimes we'ie so intent on just questioning that we foiget to seek answeis.
You iightly ciiticize people who sit back, uo little anu expect things to happen. !>*; 055 '($& -0& )- .? +8' @8*$& 0*; )'A- -'0BC$; '8 '($ %881. 0*; *8/ &87 '()*C '(0' )'A- +8*A @0+)B055& D7-' (0<<$* '8 &87E F8/3 :87% 50G& 0-- ;8*A' B8@@)' '8 50H8%=I($* &87 B8@<50)* 0H87' &87% 5)1$ B07-$ )' 0)*A' +$'')*+ B0'$%$;=:87 /0**0 -7BB$$;J &87 (0#$ '8 '%&=2 This is like yelling at uou anu just expecting answeis to fall fiom the sky. So uou hasn't appeaieu to you. That says nothing about his existence; all it pioves is that he uoesn't opeiate the way you want him to.
!? (0#$ 0 1999)*+ H%0)*J &87 -(875; C*8/ )'J :87 +0#$ )' '8 @$ '8 '()*C=2 Exactly! So maybe he expects us to think thiough these things iathei than just asking a few tough questions anu giving up. Naybe when we use oui amazing biains to think thiough all of this, the questions tuin out to not be as haiu as we once thought. Even if this is piesumptuous anu you have uug into these topics, youi challenges still uon't even get off the giounu.
!I($%$K- /0& '88 @0*& ;)11$%$*' %$5)+)8*- /)'( #)#); ;$-B%)<')8*-J H$++)*+ 055 1999)*+ @$* 0*; /8@$* '8 5)-'$*=2 Eveiy belief system is competing foi youi attention, not just "ieligion." So no mattei what you believe now you haven't escapeu this pioblem.
People iightly analyze uou anu Chiistianity, but when they walk away (!"#"$ &'$ (')!* $"+('!(), heie's wheie the tough questions stop. Bon't stop! Theie's no "uefault" woiluview that's fiee fiom ciiticism. They'ie all tiying to uesciibe the same ieality. You haven't just given up on the Chiistian belief system; you've auopteu a new one.
But you know this. !I()- )-*A' 0 -@055 <(0-$L @& <$%-<$B')#$A- 055 B(0*+$;=2 Yes.now challenge youi new peispective in the same way that you challengeu }esus anu watch it fall apait.
!:87 +0#$ @$ 0 6)H5$ 0*; $M<$B' @$ *8' '8 0*05&G$ )'=2 Bow exactly uiu you analyze it. You ieau it anu uiun't like what you saw oi it uiun't fit youi woiluview. }uuging whethei you like something oi if it sits iight isn't analysis. Scholais have analyzeu the Bible, Chiistian anu non- Chiistian alike anu the conclusion is it's ,-(.'$-/+0 $"0-+10" (same as oiiginal) anu ,-(.'$-/+002 +//)$+." (piopei uepiction of histoiy). So I'u be inteiesteu to know what specifically was the pioblem when you analyzeu the Bible foi youiself.
}ust the fact that you view Chiistianity as a launuiy list of things you can't uo shows that you view it all wiong. }esus woikeu to foigive that guilt that we all !"#$%&' have. I hope you meet the ieal }esus anu come to see the ieal point. Theie's no case that can be maue foi Seculaiism oi Atheism being tiue; you neeu moie than a !=+7' 1$$5)*+=2 It woulu be sau foi you to miss ieality!