If you think the answer to everything is "god" then in reality you are really just saying you don't have the answer to anything. It's like when you are a child and pretend that a toy soldier is really a soldier. You may tell yourself that it's a brave soldier that kills the enemies and destroys the bad guys hideout and makes the world safe for everyone, but in reality, it's still just a toy, and it hasn't done any of that. It's just been imagined to have done something, because you made it do it. No one that wasn't playing with you would say that it happened the way you said it did. And even of the ones who did play with you, there's a chance that some of them would make the distinction between make believe and reality, so when you suggest that we send your toy soldier to fight the war in Iraq, they say "C'mon, man, it's just a toy."
Basically, attributing anything at all to god is like attributing it to that toy soldier. Does that explain why prayer doesn't work, despite faith?
2007-07-01
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