Anytime you ask a question like, "Why would a perfect God create an imperfect world," you only get people quoting Bible verses at you that say "God is soooo great" as if that explains anything. My family are Christians and while I'm not terribly religious, I'd love to try and understand better--but I can't accept that God would give me intellect and then ask me not to apply it at all when it came to my faith. Blind acceptance is not my thing. There are lots of very intellectual texts on Judaism and I'm wondering if Christianity has anything like that. I don't accept that I am sinful by nature, because God created me and why would he do that? Everyone says, he gave you free will and like a father just wants you to make the right choices, but God is divine, not a human Dad who has no power over his "creations." It would really help my relationship with my family to read something on the nature of God that is more philosophical than dogmatic.
2007-06-06
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