Post by `ˆ´ v î ø l é t `ˆ´ on Aug 12, 2009 19:10:55 GMT -8
I was thinking... there isn't like complete proof that we can witness ourselves and completely make religion fact, but isn't that the point? Isn't the point of it to be a mystery?
If it was fact and we could observe it, then there really isn't faith. There isn't doubt. We aren't supposed to have the answers laid out right for us. It's supposed to be a mystery to some extent, I think... if it isn't, then faith and belief is worthless. And people would be Christian out of the fear of... Hell, basically. Anyway, not sure what I'm talking about but I read a book and it had this quote in it:
" 'Here's the way our minister explained it,' said Shelley. 'He brought a tapestry once to church--something his wife was working on. On one side of the cloth was a lighthouse against a rocky shore. It was so clean and neat, you could see the whitecaps on the waves. But when he turned it over and showed us the other side, all you could make out were knots and loose threads that seemed to go nowhere. Nothing made sense. You had no idea there wa a lighthouse on the other side. And that's the way life is. From where we sit, all we can see are the knot and tangles and threads that seem to go nowhere. But from where God sits, everything is where it should be according to His plan.' "
If it was fact and we could observe it, then there really isn't faith. There isn't doubt. We aren't supposed to have the answers laid out right for us. It's supposed to be a mystery to some extent, I think... if it isn't, then faith and belief is worthless. And people would be Christian out of the fear of... Hell, basically. Anyway, not sure what I'm talking about but I read a book and it had this quote in it:
" 'Here's the way our minister explained it,' said Shelley. 'He brought a tapestry once to church--something his wife was working on. On one side of the cloth was a lighthouse against a rocky shore. It was so clean and neat, you could see the whitecaps on the waves. But when he turned it over and showed us the other side, all you could make out were knots and loose threads that seemed to go nowhere. Nothing made sense. You had no idea there wa a lighthouse on the other side. And that's the way life is. From where we sit, all we can see are the knot and tangles and threads that seem to go nowhere. But from where God sits, everything is where it should be according to His plan.' "
