QUOTE(Deadlocks @ Jul 18 2015, 11:25 PM)
Have you considered maybe it is not about the destination, but the journey of it? That is not about whether if there is an end, but if there is a meaning? Complicated, is really just another way of saying different, due to the difference we find in people, and calling them "not simplistic" in order to deny them freedom could be to hasty to pass that sort of judgement. And that meaning if simply the hunger for knowledge, not to satisfy it, but to create meaning in the momentum of celebrating and garnering the all that has been given to us in the universe, and to give meaning to our need of curiosity not as a curse, but as an acceptance of who we are.
That is why, new information is important, and if there are areas where science and religion has not covered accordingly, there's philosophy as well.
It would be refreshing if a Christian would begin taking other sources of wisdom that is not only from the bible. And the thirst is not for quenching. It is for meaning. Not by ignorance that by simply forgoing the need for curiosity.
Bro.
The Christian Life is a Huge Journey by itself. It's a whole lot of discovery. I'm not saying to stop pursuing knowledge.
I'm saying the seeking of Life Certainty stops at God. Only found in Him. The things of Man cannot provide you what God can.
And God says to Seek Him while He may be found, which is now the age of Grace.
Because there will come a time where God will shut Heaven and Earth and says enough is enough. Where New Heaven and Earth will emerge.
You can see the birthpangs of this planet. It's evident. This world will end one day. Doesn't matter when. Your life is limited. So the door will be shut one day.
To reject that is telling God, I got this on my own. And thus God being God will oblige by your decision.
Read this Bro. I don't know if it speaks to you.
Isaiah 55
Invitation to the Thirsty
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
Verse 1, It's talking about your thirst and hunger for fulfillment.
Verse 2, talks about the vanity of the pursuit of Man in life in the things of Man.
Verse 3, talks about the New Testament Covenant of Christ for your life.
Verse 4-5, talks about Christ his Son as the one who will inevitably rule as the Right Ruler of all Nation in the end.
verse 6, talks about NOW is your time of opportunity. It will not always be there.
Verse 7, talks about let those who are evil continue to be evil, as their ultimate end will come on Judgement Day.
Verse 8, talks about why your methodology of trying to explain or seek God will never work.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jul 22 2015, 09:00 AM