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>>11332809
u rn

>>10983721
Hello.

>>10970519
>Perhaps you are still in the honey moonphase or just read selectively I hope its neither and that you found something more

I hope not but I don't think so. I didn't go into Christianity because I think it would make my life happier and more fulfiling. I went into Christianity because it is the only think that seems possible. I lost faith in everything but God. God is the weakest glimmer of hope but He is the only hope that I can see. Perhaps I'm too caught up in thinking that there is a One Truth, but the thought that there is no One Truth undermines everything that we humans do. We simply don't live as if there is no truth, and I'm not sure that we ever will. It's like those people that say that love is just a chemical reaction. No one seriously loves with that thought in mind. To anyone that has experienced love it is a profound mystery, not a mere physiological process.

Same goes for God. We are fundamentally religious creatures, and if I'm to have any hope of breaking out of my egoistic shell I need to believe that there is something solid to hold on to, that it's not just me and MY truth. I firmly believe that each of us has a moral duty to overcome ourselves, and if there is no One Truth, then there is nothing but myself, my thoughts, my opinions. I'll be forever trapped, to live out what ever wretched life it is that my nature has in store, until lo and behold I wake up one day with blood on my hands, having lived my life like Adolf Eichmann. Becoming a Christian has made my life very hard but ultimately so much more meaningful. I have genuine faith. I meet God in my heart everyday, however disappointing I may be to Him.

All the sceptics in this thread have yet to reach the limit of themselves, where they realise how powerless they really are, how wretched they really are, how completely and utterly lost they really are--when you realise that there is nothing for one to do but obey. God will come into your life and make it new, if only you would let him. That's how generous he is. Just say less, and now you will be found.

>pic related its my life; don't become a Christian unless you're prepared to burn for the Good

>>10213398
tfw butthurt that you're losing the memewar

>existence

>>10205374
>tfw both you and your wife are basically asexual so we're satisfied with having awkward sex once a month

>>10198774
Good and Evil aren't two ends of a spectrum, but opposed forms, which permeate everyone to varying degrees. The spectrum view is largely a consequence of our language and its convenience. Read Flannery O'Connor to see that there are more kinds of evil than Hitler.

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