That's interesting. Related to your questions "... who am I? Why are we here? What else is there?" I am not intelligent or "spiritual" enough to answer them by using my own resources. Of course I didn't realize that for much of my life, there were many a day when I thought I had it all figured out; now I know I didn't.
That's interesting. Related to your questions "... who am I? Why are we here? What else is there?" I am not intelligent or "spiritual" enough to answer them by using my own resources. Of course I didn't realize that for much of my life, there were many a day when I thought I had it all figured out; now I know I didn't.
Earlier I said faith in Christ is much cooler than I ever imagined; it is what drives me every day. We take so much for granted in our daily lives, and that's where we shortchange ourselves. It's the things that I know to be true, yet can't understand that truly fascinate me. Looking at God's creation is awe-inspiring, and He put us here to enjoy it, not to destroy it. But since humans turn their backs to God, He addresses it in His way; a way we can't comprehend. Consider this, if our Sun were the size of the period I will put at the end of this sentence, the galaxy were are in, the Milkey Way, would be the size of the continental US. And the Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies. Wrap your head around that.
My final example, I subscribe to the Christian premillennialist school of thought. I believe as this age we live in, the age of Grace, winds down God removes, via the "Rapture", the Church, aka the body of true believers, before the final seven years, aka the Apocalypse. As far as I can tell most American Christians who also subscribe to this belief assume the US will still be humming along when that happens. Personally I don't think that.
While I am in no-way dogmatic about it I expect the US will have been dealt a very serious blow before the Rapture. The US in not in end-times prophesy; Russia, China, Iran, Egypt and Israel are. Time will tell.
That's interesting. Related to your questions "... who am I? Why are we here? What else is there?" I am not intelligent or "spiritual" enough to answer them by using my own resources. Of course I didn't realize that for much of my life, there were many a day when I thought I had it all figured out; now I know I didn't.
Earlier I said faith in Christ is much cooler than I ever imagined; it is what drives me every day. We take so much for granted in our daily lives, and that's where we shortchange ourselves. It's the things that I know to be true, yet can't understand that truly fascinate me. Looking at God's creation is awe-inspiring, and He put us here to enjoy it, not to destroy it. But since humans turn their backs to God, He addresses it in His way; a way we can't comprehend. Consider this, if our Sun were the size of the period I will put at the end of this sentence, the galaxy were are in, the Milkey Way, would be the size of the continental US. And the Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies. Wrap your head around that.
My final example, I subscribe to the Christian premillennialist school of thought. I believe as this age we live in, the age of Grace, winds down God removes, via the "Rapture", the Church, aka the body of true believers, before the final seven years, aka the Apocalypse. As far as I can tell most American Christians who also subscribe to this belief assume the US will still be humming along when that happens. Personally I don't think that.
While I am in no-way dogmatic about it I expect the US will have been dealt a very serious blow before the Rapture. The US in not in end-times prophesy; Russia, China, Iran, Egypt and Israel are. Time will tell.