Maybe I'm just destined to comment on religion in my blogs. Who knew?
Anyway, the most amazing experience happened yesterday. Let me set this up first before I go any farther.
When attempting to look objectively at the word of God the biggest bit of red tape to get over is ignoring what your family has taught you all these years. It taints everything. I causes us to make excuses for parts of the bible we either don't believe, don't understand or don't want to deal with right now. These ignored sections of the bible may hold the key to our salvation. Even so, it's so hard to admit Grandma might have been wrong about salvation and Dad may not make it to heaven.
Unless of course you have a car accident and lose your memory and have to find religion again from scratch....which is what this guy did! It was so amazing to talk to this guy. He is literally in search of the truth and actually has a good chance of finding it since his 'red tape' just got blown away. He comes from a certain denominational background and is finding out through studying the bible that everything his family believes is way way way far off from what the bible teaches. He is able to reach this conclusion through a more objective approach then maybe any of us could ever hope to have.
To me it affirms my faith in what I have read in the bible and what I practice. If car wreck, no memory man is finding my same faith through studying the bible only, then maybe I'm close to the truth as well.
You can be sure that there will be family and religion as well as some insights into why we humans are so complicated. Life is best lived by observing the craziness of it all from an outsider's point of view. There's wisdom to be gained from what we see and experience. This is a record of some of those things as they daily reveal themselves.
2 comments:
That's awesome!
Amen.
Amen, This is how i found Paul, and How Paul found the church. He too studied the bible only to find his faith and just as you said. We learned together what was true all along, I'm thankful to God for that conformation, (still learning)
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