Crisis of faith?

There are so many ways to look at the issue that you brought up, and it's hard to know which one is best - because all have pretty decent insights and will allow you to reconcile your faith with what you see, but not every one will quite make sense to you. I'll just tell you how I see it, and I warn you that you probably won't agree with me.

First things first: our current world situation has been foretold. Read between the lines (or even read the lines) of the Bible and you can see a lot of prophecy concerning the time that we live in. Adjunct to that is the fact that we're nearing the end (that's a part you might not agree with). Though no one knows the time or the place of Christ's second coming, all signs point to it being soon. I'm not talking narrowing it down to decades or years or months or what have you, just soon.

I believe in a God who is omnipotent - all-powerful. That means that everything is within his power, not that he will exercise that power over everything all the time. That's because he's omniscient - all-knowing, and knows what is best for us individually and collectively. We are (slowly) learning from the mistakes we are making as a global society, and some of us are working to fix that. If he were to step in and take over or clean up our pollutants or save all our endangered polar bears, we wouldn't learn anything or gain our own experience.

Part of the issue boils down to questioning why we are here and where we are going. If we're here to live out our lives, find the correct Christian church and accept Jesus into our hearts, then the planet isn't much of a concern. If we're here to learn something, show that we've learned something through our actions, and be judged according to those actions after we're dead, then there's a little more accountability factored in. If we're here to party hard and cease existing at death, then I should be having a heckuvalot more fun right now.

I dunno. I could go on for hours on the topic, but I don't know that anyone would find it worth their while to read my rant, so I'll stop there. ^_^

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