Posts tagged Religion

I just have to let it out - put it up somewhere: God is wayyyyy too good; It’s hard to fathom it right now.

So for lent, I chose to give up girls, in order to refocus and remove an obvious idol in my life - and giving up girls in the sense that I’ve been avoiding scenarios or positions that feel to me like they’re dates or more intimate than I’d prefer.

In theory, this doesn’t sound too difficult, but in reality, let’s just say it makes it quite apparent that I have way too many girl friends. Despite the difficulties and awkward “let’s invite this person too!“‘s, it’s been good.

In particular there’s this one situation that seems ill-timed, but has been the source of so much blessing, encouragement, and growth. I’m not really at liberty to explain the details, but God has answered so many prayers and confirmed it more than once. After these things, there’s no way I’m doubting the power of prayer, and prayer for detailed things, ever again.

What a thought to start the new year. I am a Christian. I believe that we’re all sinners and God sent Jesus to die on the cross to reconcile us to him. 

It’s crazy though, I never took my faith that seriously until 2010, heck not even ‘till this past semester of college, mostly because I put the relationships I had with people (ie girls) above the relationship I had with God. That caused me to really just view God as someone who could fix problems; I didn’t really give him full control.

Since then, a lot of the college application process and college itself has taught me to really give him control in my life, and live not really for myself anymore. God is no longer a God who can just fix problems, He’s a God that is looking out for me in everything and wants me to grow and mature. 

My views on other religions is pretty tolerant I would say. Like I may not agree with all of it, but I do acknowledge that it exists. If I was to get in a religious debate with anyone, I could really argue only for myself since I’m not deeply familiar with any other religions. That being said, I think what makes Christianity unique is that Jesus is the only teacher who ever claimed himself to God and could back it up.

Out of interest, I’ve been reading up on arguments for atheism, and it’s kind of hard to find them. Most of the time arguments for atheism are arguments against the existence of God. One thing I never thought about was what atheism really means. There are actually two forms, weak and strong, and the most common one is weak, because all it is is claiming that “I do not believe that there is A god”, versus the strong “I believe there is NO god”. Weak atheism is choosing not to believe, while strong is believing that there is nothing to believe. Big difference that I never knew about, big difference in how to talk to people about it.

I think what frustrates me about the atheism that most people choose is that in trying to talk to them about God, all the burden of proof is on me. I can give all these great arguments, but they can still hold their disbelief for very simple reasons without really taking a stance. It makes it almost pointless to even bring it up. >_>

Anyways, Happy New Year!