Flood Day Today! School is Closed! This is a bad thing for the city but a good thing for me.. since I had no idea what I was going to be teaching today. This day off is a good thing. I didn't have power for most of the night and so the thought of a day home without power.. seemed a little unsettling.. but it came back on and so I'm snug as a bug...
I also need to admit my new addiction.. facebook. What a fun way to waste time yet keep in touch with people from all over the place. Plus it's a nice way to stalk people.. perfect for nosey people like me! haha
Anyway I had a big chat with my dad last night. I told him how I'm somewhat disillusioned with so many aspects of Christianity. I told him how I have been thinking a lot lately how it's really tragic that it seems so many of my church friends are walking away from it and not many people are being drawn in. I told him that something needs to happen, something needs to change. Then I told him something else.. I told him that when I sit in my school chapels and look around.. I have no desire to be part of any of it. And the cool thing was.. my dad wasn't shocked. (My father is a "man of the cloth" and so this could be a delicate issue) He basically said that its okay that I'm disillusioned and that I see that it isn't working and to take notes of it all and figure out what I can do to change it in little ways.. and see it as a way of preparing me for when I move on. I was surprised at his reaction. But my dad said that he had experienced a similar thing and that is what he did. And so knowing that its okay that I find some aspects of this whole thing rather repulsive is okay.. as long as I am set to figure out a way to change it.
And so.. while it rains.. I think...
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Reading Sam Harris's book "End of Faith" was one of my turning points...added to which the sheer inconsistency of modern Christian dogma where a pick and chose attitude seems to be the norm these days...a generalisation I know but I tend to get caught up on three things...
1. The word is supposed to be truth...so how can you pick and choose which bits are fact and which are metaphor.
2. If Jesus fuflfilled the word by becoming the word, then the OT is really just a history book to put things in perspective and should not be quoted as "scripture"
3. The Letters are hearsay written long after the fact, we would not accept them in a court of law, but we are supposed to accept them as unbiased and fact...
Sorry to rant, but I have had.am having my period of questioning...and I think its normal to do so, and to do so constantly.
I appreciate your insight and I think it's great to continually question things... so many people are mindless about their beliefs.. and there is danger in that.
I still hold to the fact that I believe in the Truth of the Bible and have a relationship with God/Jesus but I'm struggling with how to communicate it and what is the right way to live it out... effectively.
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