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Originally Posted by Inzanebraned
Honestly....I doubt that anything short of a miracle or visible divine intervention will make me believe that God existe...
That doesn't mean that I won't read or listen to the story, though!
I think that I tend to be more Christian-like than a lot of Christians I've known....and I don't feel like I am being forced or expected to do so.
I just try to treat folks like I'd like to be treated...accept their differences without judgement....and I rarely have to choose to not take more than my fair share of anything....
I just don't pray to anybody....
I pray for good things to happen to others...but not to a specific entity.
I have had Sarah for 33 years...I've watched her suffer from seizures, sit and watch other children run and play while she is strapped to a wheelchair, and choke on her food....
It is bad enough for me to suffer along side her...but for innocent SARAH to have to suffer the ways that she has??!!?
I cannot fathom a merciful God allowing innocent beings to suffer needlessly!
It would have been more merciful to have taken her away on the day she was born...
I feel better not having a God to blame.
But, this is NOT my only reason for not believing in God!....it just solidified my disbelief that much more.  !
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You're right, you are more Christ like than many so called Christians.
Jesus spoke of them too saying, they worship me with their mouths but their hearts are far from me.
They discard the commandments of god, teaching the words of men as doctrines.
Regarding the ills that befall us, Solomon wrote, the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
Solomon's writings are 2 histories, 1 sermon 1 collection of wisdom & one song of praise. He wrote 5 books of the Old Testament.
I often find myself quoting from Solomon and the book of job.