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Originally posted by GForce22
Hardly. What will be sad is if you have based your entire life on this piece of fiction, and in the end there is nothing that awaits you. That will be a disappointing time for you, and I pity you for that.
As for me, I will have kept my faith as I have it today, in myself, my family and my friends. That makes me live life beholden to reality, not fiction...real people who matter, not a farcical imaginary puppetmaster. Because I have lived life with such joy with those who mean the most to me, I will have made the most of it, rather than waiting for things to be better once the make-believe savior comes for me. That is far from sad...it's a beautiful life. I'm sorry yours isn't and won't be as such.
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You misunderstand my faith, I am not waiting for things to get better, that is not the purpose of my faith. I have many happy and joyful times in the past and today. I have the most wonderful and beautiful wife a man could ask for. The best job I have ever hoped for. I am not waiting to be with God to have a great time, that is what you are failing to grasp.
It is difficult to explain it to you because you cannot even understand the love and joy that I feel from knowing and having a relationship with Christ, with God. It has taken me 46 years to understand jut the tip of this. So you can call it fiction if that makes you feel better. You say your faith is in yourself, your family and friends. What happens when those friends deceive you? When your family turns from you (it can happen), or you from them. Then you have only faith in yourself, pretty lonely I think. Having a relationship with God is forever!
Man is fallable, God is not. God's love is enduring no matter what we do! Man's is not.
So you say it's sad that when I die there will be nothing for me after that? Why? Would I know anything? So you see even if in the end you were right, which I believe you are not, I would not be any worse off then you. So what have I or any other person got to lose by having this tremendous faith in a loving Creator? Only good can come out of my faith. On the flip side look at what you have to lose..eternal life in love and joy!
So I ask you this, why are you so against my faith or against a belief in God? Please don't go into the lack of self stuff again, I have a very good self image and lots of confidence as do many Christians. What is the real reason for your dare I say it fear?