The exercise of faith is much more than a religious term and is involved to some degree in most human activity. One example is air travel. For those purchasing tickets, there is an expectation it will arrive at the proper destination airport and on time. These two expectations are the culmination of a multitude of faith issues: that the fuel will be filled to sufficient levels, that the instrumentation will have sufficient accuracy to guide the plane to safe flying altitudes, that the properties of all physical elements involved will not suddenly and unpredictably become erratic, or that the crew flying the aircraft will not have simultaneous heart attacks etc. All have varying degrees of faith since we as of yet have not perfected the ability to guarantee the future. The average of many flights will have less deviation because of the smoothing effect averaging has on human miscalculation and our experienced faith that natural laws are normally inviolable. If God had a notion to be capricious we would also have to scrap average projections.
The Bible teaches that without faith it is impossible to please God. This is a lot more than God being an ogre. By introducing faith as a concept, it keeps people of the creation from limiting God by letting a limited mind limit an unlimited God. For instance, no matter how beautiful and desirable we can imagine eternal life in heaven, it is much more (I Cor 2:9 ).
The arguments for the existence of God can bring a person to the point that such truth is reasonable and yet the fact is science cannot take the step of faith by irrefutably proving God exists. It is because science is limited and is weak. The Bible indicates, over and over, that God wants eternal fellowship with those who voluntarily want it and have faith in Him. The matter of belief or faith in an invisible God is inextricably linked to conscience and to a moral decision that the person wants to grow close to the invisible God rather than trying to flee God’s presence similar to what Adam and Eve did in the garden. God respects mans capacity choose so much He allows man to go his own way causing much hurt and destruction along the way. For those that yield to God’s continual draw of His Spirit, He has promised good will come out of the bad stemming from man’s selfish choices. In this life that good is often in the form of Spiritual growth. In the next life, he has promised ALL things will be brand new and ALL hurt and pain will be gone. God’s prerogative to prevent man from seeing and understanding everything invisible and Spiritual comes from His very essence. God is love.
The preceding produces the following conclusions:
“A strictly visible God essence is illogical and impossible”
“An Invisible God is both credible and Biblical”.
“Existence of an invisible God essence requires indirect proof.
“Man often distorts the revelations of God by focus on the visible”
“The scientific method cannot disprove or prove miracles of the past.”
“The Bible allows TRUTH to be confirmed by witnesses where a suspension of normally inviolable laws has occurred. Science simply assumes that such suspension is invalid.”
“Faith is needed in the physical realm so it is not a surprise it is needed spiritual realm.”
This article suggests Christ is God and God is Christ, essence or not, removed or obtained from the shackles of an imprisoned mind obviously influenced by a congregation full of personal opinion and doubt, lacks authenticity. The bible and logic paint very different pictures about the whys and hows of Christ Jesus's life as the son of God, man of flesh, destined to die for a bunch of ?
Was your intent to sway a more intertwined description upon your readers about the relationship God and Juesus actually might have shared?
Was your intent to sway a more intertwined description upon your readers about the relationship God and Juesus actually might have shared?
Well written and entertaining !