Kristoffer wrote:cslewislover wrote:
Anyway, why are you here??...as long as you're here to learn and participate in a meaningful and respectful way. You seem completely materialistic and unwilling to even try and understand the Bible, so, why are you here?
I am here because I want to be taught,
I may seem to be entirely materialistic but have you considered where I was born? Almost 85% of people in my country are secular, it is one of the most secular places on earth. Sure Sweden is a lovely place...A beautiful, prosperous and peaceful place, Just I am not peaceful and there is some feeling really ugly in side of me. My life is
very boring, I am healthy and mentally agile and financially secure and my Job even though the hours are bad the work is not too difficult, I can manage that easily...But it is just so damn boring, almost not even worth living. So that is why I am here. Is that a bad reason?
To be almost perfectly honest, I am getting really depressed and it is affecting my life in a big way.
Well I am very glad you are being honest. Myself and others have expressed why we wonder why you are here sometimes - sometimes because you come off as quite rude about our beliefs - but, after a bit I thought you were sincere in seeking something here. I accepted Christ while a mature adult, after I was bored with life too and there didn't seem like there was anything more to do that I wanted to do (sure, there were some things, but I basically lost interest . . . ). I didn't want to live anymore.
It's hard for me to say how you should do it (but listen to others here, not just me), actually, since I had gotten to a place where I had been worshiping God without knowing it (and no, I'm not going to explain it on the board), and then Jesus came to me and let me know who He was and what I was doing. If you believe that Christ is real, but maybe you have doubts about whether He rose from the dead, or any important faith issue like that, why not just ask Him? So what if you feel foolish doing it, after all, Christ is the stumbling block (and looks foolish) to many; it's a given! You seem to have contradicted yourself on the site here regarding creation. In one place, you say you can praise God for the beauty around you, yet you keep saying things that show that you don't want to believe He had anything to do with it. But if you can praise God for creation, then keep doing it. It's one way that we "see" God in the world. There is actually more that can be said about this, about how we were created to appreciate God through the beauty He made, but I won't get into that more here.
I believe GOD is working on you now, and that is why you are asking yourself these questions.
