My gal has a condition whereby blood was detected in her urine
and she has to go for checkup every year. She is a faithful
christian. I ask her:" You are faithful my dear, but why are u
still not healed every week the pastor says u r..."
she told me:" It could have been much worse without Jesus."
I don't know man... I think she is practising escapism and
believe tat faith is an answer to her problems... The problem with
faith is nobody can promise anything and no evidence points to the
fact tat it offer solutions to our lives. The end result for her is
probably the same whether she is a staunch believer or
non-believer. It could have been much worse without Jesus ? One can
also say tat it could have been much worse with Jesus. How does she
tell ? Tell her to be stronger and face the problem
realistically... finding a shortcut or solution through religion is
the wrong reason for believing in one in the first place.
I just dunno how to make her see some reason. She told me if
everything can reason then dun need beliefs already. She actually
wanted me to use my faith more, which she says is lacking.
Wat is her definition of belief ? Some point system where u can
redeem "health vouchers" ? Tell her if she get cured because she is
faithful to god, then it just means tat either God is fickle
minded, unfair and despicable. Despicable in the sense tat he gives
tis diesease to her in the first place so she will be a believer of
him. It is like burning down the house and shop of a person, and
when they r poor, desperate and begs u for help, u give them a
house back. Tat sounds to me like a planned trap to satisfy his own
ego. Ask her since god give her the capability to reason and to use
logics, why not use it on tis ?
Whenever we talked abt her pastors' sermons, she asked me to
back it up with inference from the bible to convince her. We had
lots of quarrels becoz she think I am mocking her pastors, causing
her to lose her faith and straying her away from GOD. To avoid
quarrels, I have already told her I will stop going to her church,
or else i will keep criticising and she will not like. Am I doing
the right thing? Initially I was hoping to help raise her some
doubts, and now she says she is suspicious over me as she think i
have ulterior motives in raising her doubts
The pasta claims a lot of things, he should be the one tat
should backed up his inference in the first place. Tell u
something... do not convince her forcefully or raise her doubts in
a straighforward manner, she will be on defence mode, refuse to
listen and hates u even more.
