Hello

We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, easy, and completely free.

Join our community!

If you're already a member, please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Hello; Wherever I go, there I am.
Topic Started: Jul 7 2009, 10:29 PM (152 Views)
Post #1 Jul 7 2009, 10:29 PM	suniseclipsed
Hello all. I'm 30 years old and from Illinois. I've been following DC for a few months now as I continue further away from belief in Christianity. I was a Christian for about 10 years and slowly came to realize that God wasn't doing much to make himself evident to me or build a "relationship with Jesus" in me. That led to doubt, searching and questioning and so on. I find it amazing what I took as fact without questioning whether it made sense. I didn't really get too wrapped up in suffering in the world until recently. I've probably lived a relatively easy life so far. It's hard now to fathom God allowing all that I see in the world to take place. I've been reading Bart Ehrman's "God's Problem" and he quotes Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" near the end. In the book, Ivan Karamazov mentions people's belief that we could not know good without there being evil in the world. He goes on to ask, "Who wants to know this damned good and evil at such a price?" Ehrman points out that for Ivan the price is too high. Even if all the mysteries of why there is suffering in the world and what greater good God made from or through these sufferings were revealed in the end, it wouldn't be worth it. He couldn't honestly believe there was justification for the suffering he saw. That resonates with where I'm at right now. Anyway, I don't know how often I'll join in with a post, but I look forward to at least reading through the posts and trying to get a better understanding of this journey I'm on. If anyone is wondering, my user name refers to the last line (or at least last easily audible line) from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". Later	Posts: 1 Group: Member Member #72 Joined: July 7, 2009
	Posts: 1 Group: Member Member #72 Joined: July 7, 2009


Post #2 Jul 8 2009, 02:08 AM	Perry
Another brick in the wall? What is the real world coming to? Do chip in, when you've had a good nosey about the place. "I find it amazing what I took as fact without questioning" Amen, brother, is the standard response, I believe. Didn't we all? Most of us, anyway. From prayer to prayee, it's all so much BS. Have you enjoyed Dr Deity? Hhhmmm . . . Seems 'Mr' Deity is back, at his own URL. Edited by Perry, Jul 8 2009, 02:18 AM.	Con fused jus Posts: 834 Group: Administrator Member #4 Joined: February 15, 2008



Post #3 Jul 11 2009, 12:34 PM	Prometheus
Hello and welcome! I'm a newcomer myself and have a similar story...it's fascinating what upbringing and indoctrination can do for you.	Posts: 15 Group: Member Member #63 Joined: June 27, 2009
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... - Terry Pratchett	Posts: 15 Group: Member Member #63 Joined: June 27, 2009


1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)


« Previous Topic · * INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE! * · Next Topic »