The temptation to drift into atheism and life in the West.
The temptation to fall into atheism increases when you live in and raise your child(ren) in an environment where things seem to work. These are typical questions: What do I need God for if I can work hard, earn honest living without bending anything; if there is God why is He watching while evil people are killing innocent people, why do Christians suffer the same ill and misfortune as non-christians, etc. The West that many see as the land of plentiful opportunity is not without its own shortcomings that needs godly intervention - what seem to be an absence of evil and devil is nothing but a disguise of reality. There are as many strange ills here as there are in other places like East Asia, South America or Africa. One that comes to mind is racism. I cannot fathom why another human being will think he is superior to others (this is what drove Hitler and Germany to their ruin in the early 20th century). The society here is adopting and accepting the destruction to the family setting as we knew it - divorce rate is reaching the roof, people have forgotten the word "forgiveness" and "tolerance" - everybody is trying to be politically correct for fear of repercussion from the increasingly liberal society. It is ok to dress almost naked and call it sexy - but the same group (Hollywood and media) who praises this call a child rapist a pedophile - I see the same underlining cause, lack of consciousness of God. I know my antecedent, my story of a family imploding, and how faith in God strengthened me to aspire for greatness beyond anything. I know there is God who loves me beyond reason even at difficult times - I speak from experience of someone who enjoyed God's uplifting when all hope is lost. I was at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in DC a couple of days back and I saw human discoveries of the vastness of the universe, and how long there might have been one. As a Christian, you want to reconcile this with the Bible - but realize if you take those knowledge from the Bible in literary term, you would be confused because really "a thousand years is like a day and a day like a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8)" to God. How can there be so many celestial bodies in such an organized manner, what is the force that holds all these planets that form a solar system together, all these solar systems that make a galaxy, all these galaxies that constitute the universe, and what makes the universe to continue to expand in all direction at the speed beyond that of light even as I write - I believe there is a supreme being, the one we call God who holds ALL of these together.
The temptation to fall into atheism increases when you live in and raise your child(ren) in an environment where things seem to work. These are typical questions: What do I need God for if I can work hard, earn honest living without bending anything; if there is God why is He watching while evil people are killing innocent people, why do Christians suffer the same ill and misfortune as non-christians, etc. The West that many see as the land of plentiful opportunity is not without its own shortcomings that needs godly intervention - what seem to be an absence of evil and devil is nothing but a disguise of reality. There are as many strange ills here as there are in other places like East Asia, South America or Africa. One that comes to mind is racism. I cannot fathom why another human being will think he is superior to others (this is what drove Hitler and Germany to their ruin in the early 20th century). The society here is adopting and accepting the destruction to the family setting as we knew it - divorce rate is reaching the roof, people have forgotten the word "forgiveness" and "tolerance" - everybody is trying to be politically correct for fear of repercussion from the increasingly liberal society. It is ok to dress almost naked and call it sexy - but the same group (Hollywood and media) who praises this call a child rapist a pedophile - I see the same underlining cause, lack of consciousness of God. I know my antecedent, my story of a family imploding, and how faith in God strengthened me to aspire for greatness beyond anything. I know there is God who loves me beyond reason even at difficult times - I speak from experience of someone who enjoyed God's uplifting when all hope is lost. I was at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in DC a couple of days back and I saw human discoveries of the vastness of the universe, and how long there might have been one. As a Christian, you want to reconcile this with the Bible - but realize if you take those knowledge from the Bible in literary term, you would be confused because really "a thousand years is like a day and a day like a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8)" to God. How can there be so many celestial bodies in such an organized manner, what is the force that holds all these planets that form a solar system together, all these solar systems that make a galaxy, all these galaxies that constitute the universe, and what makes the universe to continue to expand in all direction at the speed beyond that of light even as I write - I believe there is a supreme being, the one we call God who holds ALL of these together.
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