Well done
By God's Grace, I scored well for my exams. -- Why can't you attribute your results to your own bloody self?
And what happens when you don't do well for the exams? You blame yourself and not God.
When event X happens, God shalt be praised where X is positive, and He shalt be conveniently forgotten where X is negative.
Unless X concerns a life, in which case God will be supremely revered where X is positive, and supremely mysterious where X is negative, for the pastor will always say, God's Will can never be understood by us mortal beings.
That line is one of the most irritating lines I've ever heard in my entire life. It whisks the Christian out of an impending intellectual argument defeat and places him in an area of shroud where no ray of rationality can ever reach.
And what happens when you don't do well for the exams? You blame yourself and not God.
When event X happens, God shalt be praised where X is positive, and He shalt be conveniently forgotten where X is negative.
Unless X concerns a life, in which case God will be supremely revered where X is positive, and supremely mysterious where X is negative, for the pastor will always say, God's Will can never be understood by us mortal beings.
That line is one of the most irritating lines I've ever heard in my entire life. It whisks the Christian out of an impending intellectual argument defeat and places him in an area of shroud where no ray of rationality can ever reach.
7 Comments:
"okay, God. let Your will not my will be done. if it's in Your plans that i shud fail all my subs, let it be that way :D"
This is the quote I told you about. There's even a smiley face at the end of the last sentence. *palm forehead*
http://larolfnus.livejournal.com/79868.html
By the way, read this. A response to your entry.
Hmm...actually I think, in my humble opinion, there isn't any purpose of humans being on earth at all.
Religion is our way of explaining the irrationality of our presence in this world, which actually doesn't need a purpose or explanation. Somethings happen for no reason.
Guess we like to feel part of something greater, not just an expendable organism, evolving from other animals (we still are actually) in the 'fight of the fittest', stranded on a planet in the midst of the barren waste of space. Being created by the majesty of a power greater, kinder (other than created by the forces of survival), and with a special purpose, is certainly more beautiful.
But not all things in this world, or even the next, fortunately or unfortunately, needs to be beautiful.
Aquila
Precisely. And in any case I quote...
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Personally I dont find anything terribly wrong with religion in its making sense of life and giving its followers a sense of purpose in their own lives.
But when you read blogs such as http://loventu.blogspot.com/, you realise that people carry things too far.
A quote:
Meanwhile, we are also preparing the new semester and as part of the preparation for the freshmen blessing, we will be prayer walking the ground in NTU for the next 3 weeks. Pray for us as we usher in the presence of God and set the spiritual climate in NTU.
http://larolfnus.livejournal.com/80770.html
Another one.
Hmm...actually it reminds me of Braveheart.
Aquila
Either way, I guess we all have our own opinions and views, be we religious or otherwise.
Live Earth, Live Earth =)
Aquila
Post a Comment
<< Home