Giving Up the Faith
Late last night I was reading a story written about an interview given by Tony Blair in which he said his faith helped him to make hard decisions when he was Britain’s Prime Minister. He said if he had mentioned it the people in Britain would have thought he was nutty.
This shouldn’t strike me as strange since last week I read that in Great Britain only 42% of the people say they pray.
I have frequented a blog hosted by someone in France with readers from several countries, including the United States. One says she is a Catholic, but it sounds as though she is non-practicing. The rest are agnostics or atheists.
The agnostic has told me if I could scientifically prove God he would admit God exists. Look to the earth and the heavens and try to figure out where the Big Bang started and who started it.
Look at the intricacies of the human body, or any living being, and try to convince me there was not Someone Who created it all. Happenstance is happenstance and doesn’t repeat itself forever.
There is a Christian woman who frequents the same blog and is prostelytizing on there. It hasn’t worked and has turned them even more against a belief in God than before. Yet she persists to the point of causing them, in their rage to not hear it anymore, to blaspheme the very Creator of all.
This wounds my spirit and I am going through a turmoil as to whether or not to continue to read that blog. I have become friendly with the owner and we have talked over the internet and he will not be moved. So maybe it’s time to shake the dust off my feet as I leave the town.
This is something I pray about constantly and have not yet felt the Spirit telling me to stay away, but when I see blasphemy I have to call them on it and say why it wounds my spirit.
If they want me to be tolerant of their views they also need to be tolerant of mine, but the other woman is making it so difficult to be a Christian on that site by her constantly judging and condemning.
It is not her place or my place to judge the state of anyone’s soul, but Jesus’s.
Our own country is becoming more secular and the more secular we become the less blessing we get as a nation.
We need to be in prayer for the world as a whole and our nation in particular. We need a revival of the Holy Ghost in our world and stop being so secular.
But God told us this would happen towards the end times. Again, I have no idea certain if we are in the end times or when it starts how long it will take before the Church, the believers, are lifted from the wickedness that continues to grow stronger every day.
Pray for us all.
Written by ~J~
Ariel Horwitz Says:
November 26th, 2007 at 3:07 pmVisit Ariel Horwitz
“Look at the intricacies of the human body, or any living being, and try to convince me there was not Someone Who created it all. Happenstance is happenstance and doesn’t repeat itself forever.”
No one neccesarily says that no one created it all. but no one says God did. And if you define God as the one mentioned in the Bible and elsewhere, that’s a long step. If you have scientific proof of /that/ God existing, you’ll get me in too.
I’m writing (or at least attempting to) write a book on popular philosophy, and I would be interested in opinions, your’s included. Feel free to drop an email.