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<p>[QUOTE="Xprimentyl, post: 4205, member: 20"]</p><p>I’m NOT saying that’s not possible; I’m saying I don’t know, that I don’t believe <em>anyone</em> “knows,” and that I personally could not sign up for a faith that assumes that’s the case without allowing for interpretation and mandates that I simply believe the literal words to call myself “one of the group.”</p><p></p><p>I’m certain you’re armed with plenty of explanations being a Witness and trained to field questions, so answer me this if you will: if the Bible is to be taken as THE definitive Word and not questioned or interpreted, only applied, how does one explain a God who, at a time when scientific and medical studies have explained so much of the world around us, when man is armed with more irrefutable, intimate knowledge of the state of our existence than ever, would relegate himself to fantastical, enigmatic texts and requisite blind faith when the Word would have us believe he is more that capable of more direct interactions? The parting of a sea, a burning bush and a voice booming from the heavens would indeed be a “miracle” or a “sign” to someone 2,000 years ago; given the state of the world today, don’t you think we’d benefit from similarly overt divine intervention when even the simplest souls can explain away what was thought to be “divine” thousands of years ago? At a time when faith is easiest to lack, why does God hide?</p><p></p><p>I know that seems the go-to, elementary “prove it” argument, but in my mind it is so much more. I don’t need “proof” so much as a reasonable explanation; this is why I <em>am</em> agnostic; I find it equally hard to believe in an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God who’s held the fate of our souls in abject silence for 2,000 years and burdens me with faith in Him bases on what other men say about Him from a pulpit or doorstep as I do that 14 billion years ago “nothing” exploded into “everything,” and the complexity of it all is just chance and chaos.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Xprimentyl, post: 4205, member: 20"] I’m NOT saying that’s not possible; I’m saying I don’t know, that I don’t believe [i]anyone[/i] “knows,” and that I personally could not sign up for a faith that assumes that’s the case without allowing for interpretation and mandates that I simply believe the literal words to call myself “one of the group.” I’m certain you’re armed with plenty of explanations being a Witness and trained to field questions, so answer me this if you will: if the Bible is to be taken as THE definitive Word and not questioned or interpreted, only applied, how does one explain a God who, at a time when scientific and medical studies have explained so much of the world around us, when man is armed with more irrefutable, intimate knowledge of the state of our existence than ever, would relegate himself to fantastical, enigmatic texts and requisite blind faith when the Word would have us believe he is more that capable of more direct interactions? The parting of a sea, a burning bush and a voice booming from the heavens would indeed be a “miracle” or a “sign” to someone 2,000 years ago; given the state of the world today, don’t you think we’d benefit from similarly overt divine intervention when even the simplest souls can explain away what was thought to be “divine” thousands of years ago? At a time when faith is easiest to lack, why does God hide? I know that seems the go-to, elementary “prove it” argument, but in my mind it is so much more. I don’t need “proof” so much as a reasonable explanation; this is why I [i]am[/i] agnostic; I find it equally hard to believe in an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God who’s held the fate of our souls in abject silence for 2,000 years and burdens me with faith in Him bases on what other men say about Him from a pulpit or doorstep as I do that 14 billion years ago “nothing” exploded into “everything,” and the complexity of it all is just chance and chaos. [/QUOTE]
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