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For everyone who claims to be a Christian, you should read this article. The guy there makes a good point.
I was reading one of the discussion boards on facebook in “The largest facebook group ever” and someone had asked the question “Can someone please give me ONE LOGICAL reason to believe that god actually exists”. What has me so upset right now is the people (Christians??) who keep saying, “Well, what does it hurt to believe?” “You should believe, just in case.” I am sorry, but where is your faith when you believe “just in case” it could be true? While you are at it, why don’t you subscribe to Buddhism and Islam and Mormonism. “Just in case,” you should believe everything, so that when the end of the world comes, or you just die, then one of the things that you have “believed” in will save you. I get so upset with Christians who say “It is not going to hurt anything to believe in God.” In reality, if you are living right, then it will probably hurt a lot to believe in God.
/venting
I just read this dude’s blog about women’s roles in the church. I am not quite sure what to think of it. The comments are also interesting. Some people completely agree with him, while some sort of agree with him, and then others claim that his beliefs are in line with the Taliban’s. He is basing his blog on 1 Timothy 2. I will admit that some of what he said bothered me, and I don’t know if that is because he is right and it convicted me, or he is wrong and it just bothered me. To be honest, what bothered me the most was what he said about “women being saved through childbearing.”(Here is the link to the article, it is the 6th paragraph.) It seems to me that he is saying that only through childbearing can a women show genuine faith and be saved. This brings to mind about where many people in the bible said that it is better not to marry, that young men should not marry, and virgins should remain virgins. How can a woman have genuine faith if it is better not to marry but that she can only have genuine faith through childbearing? I think that I am going to post this question to the author (later, after I am able to have my bible right in front of me, and I can word this better). I don’t know, his whole article kind of has me up in arms, which I know I shouldn’t be. Someone else made a point in one of the comments about where “there is neither Jew nor Gentile, male or female” and this person asked a few good questions, which the author either overlooked (there are a lot of comments on this article, this is possible) or he chose not to answer. I have heard so many different opinions on this, and I know that I should just read the bible and pray and I should get the answers, but I can’t help but think that that is what all of these people (including the author) did, and they all have differing opinions that they think are right. More thoughts to come later…
We had a really close call last night, but no tornadoes came too near to where we were. And by too near, I mean that there was one less than 5 miles from the building that we were in, but it didn’t come closer than that. This line of storms went up into tennessee also, and my parents got quite a bit of hail and they lost power. Funny stuff about that.
I found this article yesterday at work. It talks about men and their responsibilities in today’s world from a Christian perspective. I thought it was interesting, and agreed with pretty much everything. And it was written by a man!
