Since lately I cannot think of what to write, I will start writing various things about myself, my current life, or things I am thinking that people reading this may or may not be interested in. So, here goes.
Something not so interesting to me...My life right now includes a class called Plenary. The word, plenary, is somehow connected to the word "fullness". This word is sometimes heard at conferences and such to describe something that everyone must attend. At school, every student must attend it (every student being all 36 of us). Its purpose is to connect what I am learning in all my classes, teaching a "Christian perspective of truth and life"....meh, this explanation sucks. I am taking a bunch of Humanities courses (which I might explain as classes that delve into the question of what it means to be human). The goal of all this, this type of learning, is to make me a seeker of truth in order to honor God in order to make me a better lover of wisdom, of God.
(my roommate, Michelle, just told me to write about her because she says, "I'm interesting. I mean, I freakin' live with you, people should know about me. Tell them I'm folding my laundry". So interesting...folding laundry.)
Something n my mind the past 2 days: Do I agree with protestant doctrine? Catholic doctrine is looking much more like truth to me than the doctrine I have grown up believing without ever doubting. Do we have free will (Catholicism) or is all the work in salvation done by God (protestantism--no free will/predestination)? If the idea of God is innate (as Descartes proved), then Aquinas' idea of God being revealed through reason (which happens within) seems much more believable than Luther's argument the God's will is exclusively revealed in the bible (something external). Okay, this is starting to look more like the paper I need to write for tomorrow than a blog. sorry. (by the way, all that stuff just written is just a thought process...not my actual beliefs or even an accurate understanding of those philosophies/theologies).
I guess I am thinking how easily I jumped into believing all that the church told me without any reasoning/questioning behind it. I just think how much stronger my argument for believing in God would be if I had first doubted if there was a God, doubted that phrase "personal relationship". ahhh, I need to stop this now... stopping. now.
2 comments:
I am a true believer that the only real way to figure out how something works is to take it apart and hopefully put it back together. Questioning and digging has to lead to growth.
Dad
Descartes holds a very dear place in my heart, and though you will soon hear many criticisms to his ontological argument, hold fast dear whit.
His argument may not be completely full-proof, but he starts the discussion on how to prove God (or if you can at all), and that is something to give him props for :)
I'm real glad you are thinking about these things, and challenging what we've always been taught in sunday school. If I believe in anything, it's that the honest search for truth will lead you to truth. good luck, and i can't wait to read more of your thoughts on this.
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