Saturday, February 20, 2010

On the subject of doubt

For a while now I've been silently stalking Redlefty's blog Megaloi -- "Great Things".  He recently wrote a great post on the subject of doubt.  I must admit, I've pondered (and continue to ponder) every single point he presented.  Here's a snippet:

..."If God exists, I'm not sure I'm worshipping the right one

Look at human history and notice how many different gods have been named, praised and defended. There are thousands (millions when you include Hinduism). Is it possible that Christianity has it right? Yes, but the odds aren't overwhelming in our favor.

Even within Christianity, there are so many different perceptions of God. Benevolent father, vengeful deity, distant superpower... some Christians think God is just a big pile of love and others think God intentionally leveled Haiti with an earthquake to punish them for sin. That's a wide, wide range."

Check out the rest of his post "What I'm not sure about". It's a good read and his honesty is refreshing

1 comment:

Old Pete said...

Mel

I've been following Michael's blog for some time. I've even included some of his material on one of my blogs.

I'm 74 and in one sense I've been on this journey outside the walls of traditional Christianity for some 40 years.

I am seen by some as a bit of a heretic and I appear to have a knack of asking the awkward questions to which there are no easy answers.

You might find the story of my journey interesting. My blog is an introduction to my web site where I ask a lot of questions.