Why should I care?

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No, really: why should I care about a question such as that? Sure, faith is truly questionable, and when coming at faith from a non-believer perspective, a believer is seen as a fool because of their beliefs lying in an entity that cannot be discovered by our five senses (though I sincerely doubt someone wants to lick God for taste, but no doubt it'd taste heavenly). If we are to take a step back and analyze what we as Christians believe in: yes, it does seem unlikely. Some entity we have never seen or heard loves us dearly, yet still allows viruses and cancers to affect and kill us and our loved ones while we may undergo persecution based solely on our beliefs that this is true. Honestly, it does sound ludicrous given the current state of the world we live in today. We live in a time where fathers leave their children or couples divorce at such an early time in a child's life that we as millennials and Gen Z kids understand as this: the only one that will assuredly love you is yourself, so long as you can force yourself to love yourself. We are so preoccupied with making ourselves happy and comfortable that when we see war, death, and famine in the news and hear that some people believe in a being that "loves" His creation...yeah, I wouldn't want to believe it either. I wouldn't believe it, nor would I want to hear about it.

That's why the end question gets an "I don't really care..." answer out of me: I don't. I'm all for spreading the Gospel to every individual I come across, but I know that there are some people who will just not listen no matter how much sense you make. To us believers, it's common sense that Jesus died on a cross for our sins, and that Jesus was capable of such because he was 100% God and 100% Man at the same time. That's an irrefutable truth, but to those that do not possess the light of the Holy Spirit it is an illogical fallacy (you can't be 100% of two things. You can be 50-50, but not 100-100. It's impossible). So I personally understand that unless the Holy Spirit is moving inside an individual, they will never see the light of what Christ has done for them. I will not cast my pearls before swine because I know they will not care for what I provide to them at all.

So, is there anything that would make me say, "God does not truly love us,"? No. As a firm believer in the faith, I trust God knows what's best for God's creation. I've asked my mom countless times before: "Why did you choose these flowers over these other ones?" Her response was always along the lines of, "I like them." There's no telling the true meaning behind God's plan because only He knows. If He were to take my life tomorrow (God forbid), I would rest assured that I do not understand and I may never understand after an eternity in Heaven the reason behind Him doing so.

(You ever just get the feeling you ramble on too much? I feel I was led on a long winded zeppelin ride.)

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  1. Michael TurnerFebruary 26, 2018 at 9:04 PM

    "God chooses the things that seems foolish to confound the wise," I paraphrase. You are very right, Noah. Enlightenment, in modernist term is viewed as something man can achieve by himself. Yet, man always misses the mark. God gives clues and sometimes, outright signs to point us on the right path; but it is through the Holy Spirit that we become truly enlightened.

    The problem of evil and suffering is and always will be the greatest argument non-believers have to use. At the same time, it is also a great ministry point. We can only plan the seeds and help "cultivate the garden." God provides the rest.

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