Christianity, Secularism….Doubt Part 3

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Paul E. Miller puts it like this:

 “I recently had a cynical moment during my morning prayer time.  I was reflecting on some answers to the previous day’s prayer, and I felt a lingering distaste in my soul.  All I’d done was pray, and God had acted.  It seemed too easy.  Trite.  I realized I was hunting for something to doubt.  I was also hunting for something to do.  At bottom, I didn’t like grace.  I wanted to be a player in the way God answered my request.  In fact, at that moment I didn’t like God.  I was more comfortable with His distance.”

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Christianity, Secularism, and Doubt (part 2)

Pills

 

So, you have been sick.  Your sickness has been going on for quite some time now.  You continue to “deal with it” hoping it all goes away.  Well, it hasn’t  and it has finally brought you to that point.  You break down and go see the Doctor.  You know it’s bad when YOU go to the doctor!  As a Christian, you take God at His Word and you believe God can heal you.  You ask others to join with you and pray.  And….. people do pray!

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Christianity, Secularism, and…..Doubt

Thomas Jefferson

 

I begin this post with a simple premise:  We have the ability to explain everything away!

Thomas Jefferson and the Bible:

Thomas Jefferson had some interesting beliefs.  He believed in a God who creates, but after creating, God no longer intervenes in any way in the daily life of his creation.

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