Posted by SLS on January 16, 2005, at 8:03:06
In reply to A ramble on being Agnostic, posted by NikkiT2 on January 9, 2005, at 8:58:00
> I know this board isn't the place for discussing this per se, but I can't think of anywhere else to post this question, and also I know I will get great responses here.
I think to be agnostic is to have doubt. It is probably a very good thing that God has inspired us with doubt, as it is what often leads us to belief.
Belief in what?
This is a good question that I found helpful to ask myself as I struggled through my periods of agnosticism and atheism.
Are you asking yourself if you believe in the god that you were taught existed as a child? Is the definition and character of God bound by what any man can conceive Him to be? Is it the conceptualization of god as presented in Judaeo-Christian systems that you are having problems with in organizing your belief system? There are others.
I believe in God. That is about as much as I am willing to share at this post. I arrived at this point because of my inability answer that which I believe will always remain unanswerable. "Why existence?"
The "how" of existence question is much easier to approach. Whether one believes in Creationism or the Big Bang and subsequent biological Evolution is a matter of "how" things came to be. To know "why" things exist at all is to know the Mind of God. I would be curious as to whom would profess to know this.
I guess that's all for now. I look forward to see if this sort of post is acceptable in this forum.
- Scott
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