Posted on 12/17/2012 10:06:40 AM PST by Perseverando
I think I have the Progressive/Socialist/Communist movement figured out, and the answer is God. Surprised? Read on.
Humans have an instinctive desire to believe in something bigger than themselves—something all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful, that can make everything right when nothing seems to go right.
Ask any anthropologist or archaeologist, and he or she will tell you that pretty much every culture in the history or humankind has had a set of beliefs regarding a god or gods. We westerners are most familiar, of course, with the ancient Greek and Roman gods, but every civilization from the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians to modern-day tribesmen hidden deep in the Amazon jungle have complex and deeply-held religious beliefs.
Heck, even comic book super heroes are god characters. Think about it: Superman, Batman, Spiderman and their comic book comrades all have super powers that they use to fix the wrongs in the world that we mere mortals cannot fix. There’s no difference between that and any other religious belief. It is understood (by most) that these comic book super heroes are fictional, but in a minute we’ll see how some think people that ALL religious deities are fictional.
Now, there could be several explanations for this instinctive desire to believe in an all-powerful being. It could be that humans just can’t comprehend all of the evil that exists in this chaotic world, and the only way we can survive emotionally when we experience terrible things is to believe that somewhere “out there” is a being who is in control of things and who will eventually make things right.
On the other hand (and I will be up front here and tell you that this is what I believe), it could be that this instinct was planted in our souls by God Himself as a
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I have maintained that Jesus’ words were that no one knows the time of his return. Not even him or the angels. That it is God’s timeline that he has not revealed.
I’m not sure where you thought I indicated that the book of Revelation changes that.
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Lol, I was asking you because of your comment in 68.
I suppose that is something on which we can both agree.
I think this scripture is not nearly as clear in its meaning as you seem to think.
If disbelief is the sin Paul refers to here, this presumably means we should NOT pray for those who are unbelievers.
Which pretty much contradicts every sermon I've ever listened to where the point is made that we should pray to God to open the eyes of unbelievers and bring them to belief.
I also think disbelief, in the sense you use it, means more than absence of belief. I think it means believing and rejecting. The Bible says the demons believe and shudder. That's quite different from a lack of belief as such.
Perhaps we should call the absence of belief nonbelief and the belief/rejection anti-belief.
Ping
Prayer to soften a bear or open eyes to the gospel, yes. How would God grant forgiveness for disbelief in himself ? The individual has chosen separation from God, which is death.
Lol... Correction: “soften a heart” not a bear (that’s a whole ‘nother discussion)
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