Ahh the age old debate a faith based individual and a realist walk in to a bar.............(why a bar why can it be a mutual discreet meeting place that serves up concoctions that will either twist your insides or make you throw away all your inhibitions.....oh wait that is a bar.....never mind)
Now that I have your attention and you are wondering what this nut job is talking about I will get right to it. I have been asked several times, Am I scared to die? Nahh not really, sometimes living can be more scary. I have also been asked "What if when i get to heaven and I am told that what I believed in here on earth was wrong?" I love this question because I am part realist part faith based. If I was told I was wrong then I would say well you know at least I was able to stay focused and keep to that belief no matter what and not change my mind at every whim. Don't get me wrong I am not saying those realist's out there change there mind at every whim but some of them do take the cake. I go back to one of my earlier posts about views. A lot of what we believe in this world is based solely in part on our viewpoints. Meaning that my belief in Christ and the fact that I will be judged in the last days and if proven worthy I will stay in heaven and go from there. (there is a lot more to it than that but that is the simple form to explain things) If I am proven to not be worthy well there is the alternative. For me I have a faith that it will happen and come to pass, when I couldn't tell you but that is where I hold it. It is my choice, my free agency to believe that way. If you choose not to you choose not to. However, the realist in me also see's another side, a side that understands that the creation of the universe and human beings however it may have happened to be in divine intervention, be it a cosmic explosion, evolution....whatever is far beyond me and my comprehension level to understand and that's where I leave it. Simply because no one here on earth can actually explain exactly what took place because we simply do not know we weren't there. We didn't witness it. For my faith side though I have to believe in something, something tangible, something that makes sense when no other explanation will do. To believe in a being that took upon the sins of the world and for lack of a better word was perfect is not foolish. That why it is called faith to believe in something with out being able to see it or the complete nature of it and to understand it on a level that you can comprehend it and therefore empowers you to do better or strive to be better in this world. How can that be bad. I have seen many things happen in this world not only in my life but others lives that leaves the questions was it divine intervention or what.
I am not saying I am right and you are wrong I am saying that is how I believe and where I leave things. Now to try and conform my views to your views that's wrong. I explain my belief you explain your belief that's where it lies. It is a shame that not more people in this world have a view point like mine I must say simply cause there might be less arguments about religion, the creation of the world, the universe. What ever happens will happen and as I always say if I am wrong then I am wrong so be it. Never said I was right in the first place. Just said it was my belief.
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