"modern psychologists are powerless to help couples save their relationships - because they leave God out of the picture. Since God is the source of love."
This can be explained in part by an interview (download the MP3 here 4min5sec in) with Bono (from a band called U2), Bono says
"...Then enters the story of grace. which really is the story of Christ which turned this view of the universe upside-down. It's completely counter-intuitive and very very hard for human beings to grasp grace. We can actually grasp atonement, revenge, fairness - all of this we can grasp. But we don't grasp grace very well. I'm much more interested in grace because I'm really depending on it."
It's the only way to weather the inevitable storms...
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I would have agreed with you two years ago. When I was in the storm, I turned to God, BUT I got a lot of "guff" in return.
Now I've become agnostic.
I'm beginning to side with the "critical thinkers" and "humanists". When I started doing this, the believers in my circle of friends started saying things like "Adam bit the apple, and got a sore tooth, and you still have a sore tooth which you need to heal". It seems like a lot of unreasoned bally-hoo to me.
However to each their own, and if you find that reasoning helps you weather the storm, then I say keep at it.
Everyone has a different walk. God sees us each as a unique individuals and he has a unique plan for each of us. [re: Adam's apple] Truisms are just that... "isms". You don't live your life by them.
[re: critical thinking] Also, God gives us the free will to think for ourselves. [re: humanism] But that hardly makes us God.
Ref Truisms - This statement can only be a Truism if it is True but says nothing new. Tying this in with logic and thinking, I can't even consider it a Truism. In my original comment I use it as a case of someone trying to represent it as true when in fact I see no evidence of said truth.
Ref Critical Thinking - I don't claim to be God nor "A God". I am only arriving at evidence based conclusions from thinking through these critical issues.
When they made the statement about Adam's apple, they would have thought it true - so it may have been a truism for them. It isn't a truism for neither you nor I.
I realise you may not be a humanist, but humanists believe God resides within them (as far as I know). I think it's good you are arriving at evidence based conclusions. God expects us to be critical thinkers, that's why he gives us freedom to make up our own minds. We must internalise things for ourselves.
The only way to internalise this stuff is through our own investigation - which is why relying on other "religeos" people will never work. Worthwhile knowledge doesn't come for free. Our generation is used to having everything handed to them and they want a quick fix for everything. People need to apply themselves more to feeding their critical thoughts. Critical thinking needs food for thought. The only way to do that is to study and compare for yourself. You don't need a person such as myself suggesting how you should think.
As far as I am aware I do not fit into the label humanist. I am happy to think for myself, and this sort of discussion is healthy - food for thought.
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