Monday, April 23, 2007

religion?

I just realized that the statistics of my blog is quite scary. There are quite a lot of visitors and even a number of regulars and I'm so sorry that you're going to read about me and my personal argument about e existence of a "god".

The thoughts linger and resurface every time I'm put in a situation where I really wonder if this loving, sacrificial and righteous God exists. It's just way too convenient to give glory to God for every good thing which happens and blame e devil for every bad. When you fail, someone will be there to tell you that it is alright because what cannot kill you will only make you stronger. When an unfortunate and uncontrollable event occurs, e.g. the Tsunami, they say that God is in control of things, He is sovereign and He has reasons and thoughts above ours so even when such a tragedy happens, be sure to trust in Him because it only happened as He allowed it to and He'll definitely have His reasons for it. But I highly doubt the families of these tens of thousands who died will be so willing to accept that "truth" about God. What they would say is that if a god exists and if this god is good and loving, how could he possibly allow so many thousands of innocent lives to be lost just by a sweep of currents initiated by what they so call, a "devil". It's just too easy to give all glory to God for the good things and blame everything else on e devil.

What about stories in the Old Testament of the Bible when God killed thousands, plagued a country and cursed nations?

When I fail in a business venture, I'd be told not to give up but to try again and start afresh because everything happens for a reason and if I don't call it quits this time, I'll come back stronger because God is always w me and w Him, all things are possible. That sounds really encouraging but I think that those theories do apply to non-Christians as well. It IS true that what fails to kill you will cause you to become stronger and that you should never give up on yr dreams in life. And I truly believe that even a non-Christian who doesn't have a "god" on his side can still succeed on his subsequent attempts. On the contrary, that Christian might try the second time and STILL FAIL and he'll be fed w e same counsel yet again and try the third. How then, does the principles and miracles of "god" apply?

Everything in the Bible is encouraging, educational, motivational and positive and can be read by any man in the world. If that man takes heed and accepts those principles and teachings found in that book, he'll be encouraged, educated, motivated and be a more optimistic person without even being a Christian, attending a Christian organization or having any relationship w a fellow Christian.

The truth's that there's no concrete proof to the Christian beliefs because if there is, anyone who devotes himself/herself to any other religion or even atheists(who happen to top the lists in the richest/most successful people in the world) would be clearly deemed as absurd.

Okay and having said all that, I promise to do my best to update something less argumentative/borderline antagonistic in future. Maybe I'll start blogging about e events in my everyday life like what I ate for my 3 meals, how school was, what I did and where I went throughout e day and what time I slept. HAHA.


Posted by kevin. at 11:04 am