i read something interesting a while ago, back when i had the stumble-thing on my browser. some preacher said that "atheists are not very good at atheism," or something like that. what he meant was that most atheists still worship or have faith in something (even if they are unaware of it). science, money, themselves, whatever...
i thought that was kind of clever. it reminds me of a book called 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist' by norman geisler. i haven't read it. it's on an endless list of books i would like to read some day.
anyways, here is something that has been on my mind:
i know a lot of people who think they will get to heaven if they lead good lives and try to do the right thing. that is a bunch of crap. sometimes i tell them so. sometimes we end up discussing this and it becomes a real buzz-kill for everyone involved. well, not me, i like talking about this stuff.
none of us would go to heaven if that were the case. to quote dr. cox from the t.v. show 'scrubs,' "people are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling." and i believe this.
God is perfect. as a perfect being, He cannot co-exist with sin. we are all sinners. on our own, heaven is unattainable. anything contrary is not biblical.
believe what you want. no one can control that. but please think about it.
p.s. this post was not funny at all, and i feel like a failure because of that.
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this post was not a failure.
ReplyDeleteThe bastard donut analogy, however, might have been.
Your conversation you think is such a buzz kill? Not so, among the angels. :)Just make sure you always give people the other option besides being a bastard donut. How we become bastard donuts that instead have that yummy creme filling.