Believe in . . . . Who?

 
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 Step we are on: Step Two
Chapter: "We Agnostics"

Subject: Faith, Intellect, Doubt, Logic, Reason

Sometimes when we run into a prospect who puts his own thinking - his self reliance, ahead of spiritual reliance upon God, we or even he, may think he is incapable of faith.

Let’s see what the co-authors thought about worshiping the power of our own intellect.

• ·        What had happened without us being aware of it?

Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith?

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• ·        What did we have confidence in?  Two sentences

For did we not believe in our own reasoning? Did we not have confidence in our ability to think? 

• ·        That was a sort of what?

What was that but a sort of faith?

• ·        To what had we been faithful?

Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason.

• ·        When was faith not a part of our daily lives?

So, in one way or another, we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!

So even the faithless - the agnostic or the self-proclaimed atheist, has a capacity for faith in something, in someone - even when that has been the  placing of faith in themselves, ahead of God. 

This makes the point, but in practice it also proves to cause a distortion of our human purpose - why we are here.

Where does this place the old popular motivator, "Believe in yourself"?  Not in a very good light, I'm afraid.
 

TOMORROW

• What was the next thing we found?
• How did that affect us?
• What had we worshipped?
• What feeling did we sometimes feel when we observed some of God’s handiwork?
• What was the next thing we learned?

Peace and  Love,

Danny S – RLRA

Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

 http://stepelevencomesalive.blogspot.com/