tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post5485784921913647376..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Quote of the Day (15)Dr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-34524295455353055492016-01-28T00:06:41.737-05:002016-01-28T00:06:41.737-05:00All thinking persons have to deal with the issues ...All thinking persons have to deal with the issues presented to modern man with regard to evolution, biblical history, the human condition, war between good and evil, material, mental, spiritual imperfection and constant damage, the apparent absence of a caring God that some claim exists, others are not interested in and merely think of as a bad idea. How to make sense out of all that? To me, the primary lesson from history, current public, and my own private, affairs, is simply that the most compelling reason for the existence of God is the evident existence of Good and Evil and the coping skills we are taught concerning that through Christianity. An unbiased examination will show them to be the ONLY truly eternally functional and working coping skills available to humanity to deal with the Good/Evil problem (and it is for that reason they are therefore often copied but, because of bias, without acknowledging the source). <br /><br />Those who engage in that type of bias fail to realize, or acknowledge, that God, evidently, will never come down, sit across the table from them and perform magic tricks (their thinking) or take them on a tour of outer space without a space suit on, in order to convince them that it's really him. Anyhow, he knows that they would think that he could perhaps simply be a powerful space alien from some distant planet or dimension who has billions of years of evolution ahead of us. They will also not concede that God might consider that to be the wrong approach and that his premise instead is faith. So, how can you prove to anyone God exists and that he is relevant? It would seem to be a futile endeavor to try and overcome such bias in a person and the simple reason is that they don't WANT to be convinced for purely multifaceted personal reasons with the main one being that they don't want to be inconvenienced. Because, if they where honest, they would simply find out by asking, or discover on their own from the Bible, that God provided a concrete way to find him. Of course, that's where the inconvenience comes in, namely, starting the process of forming a personal, one on one, relationship with him through the biblically suggested methods (prayer, faith, fidelity, reform, etc.) and accepting guidance and strength coming from that relationship and also from the faithful. Now, all of that is too hard, of course, and too easy to dismiss and so the unfair and unjust griping continues ad infinitum.Qmannoreply@blogger.com