So times running down on this semester. I have only a little bit left to do for classes and soon as those come to a close I will be able to say goodbye to my sophomore year of college and move on to my junior year. Just for my own sake here's a run down of what I have left to do in classes. In Human Diversity I have just a few more class meetings and then my final, in Fit and Well I have to turn in my journal and do my final, in Spiritual Form I take my last test tomorrow and then I will be done with that class and continuing to go is optional. As for my Tuesday and Thursday classes go I have only one more exam in Life Economics and in Problem With Evil I have to do a presentation on Tuesday and then on the Monday of finals week I have a paper due for class which will bring it to a close.
During finals week I only have two finals. Human Diversity and Life Economics. I am so stoked to be out of here only three weeks left and then its three months of relaxation and focusing solely on not college stuff. This summer I'll be spending eleven days in Jamaica with my good friend Jeff. We're going to be there from June the 20th to July 1st. I can foresee it being a really fun time. I don't really know what to put here.. I guess I can talk about my day a little. Today after Problem, Joel and I had a long talk about somethings that are just bothering me to no end and after we had talked for awhile those things seemed to have been worked out a little and life stopped seeming so utterly pointless and I stopped feeling like God was such an asshole. I feel I should explain this a little... See Problem With Evil is an upper level philosophy class which discusses the philosophical problem with evil. The problem is the class is leading me to see God as some asshole who just allows bad things to happen because he is obviously not powerful enough or caring enough to stop it. Here is where I am running into the wall with this.. God at least the God of the Bible and the God I believe in is a loving God who does not allow us to endure any form of evil which could harm us. Therefore this problem with "Horrendous evils" which are evils that are ruinous to our lives cannot be true. I am a man of philosophy but foremost I am a man of God which leaves me trying to reconcile my Christian beliefs with a belief in what philosophy tells me. I think here I should just be like I am a Christian what the Bible tells me is more important than what philosophy tells me but I believe that there can be some justification to be found in the philosophical side of things.
So here's where I am drawing my conclusion. When there is a contradiction between my Christian beliefs and those I find in philosophy I will simply side with my Christian beliefs on the basis of faith. When I look at problems such as can God exist with evil I have to say only out of a necessity. If God could do otherwise I believe he would however, God allows us to commit evil because he see's our free will as more important than having a perfect world. This is because he loves us so much that allowing us to make a poor decision makes him happier than us making the right decision at all times and being like robots. Anyways as I previously said I will accept stuff on the basis of faith for myself in comparison to over thinking everything and causing myself to have such awful thoughts such as "God is an asshole". That is an irrational belief for me to hold. For a simple reason of God has done so much for me that if he were an asshole he wouldn't have done. For example primarily saving me from myself, or the time that he chose not to take my dad from me. I'm just trying to figure out why it is that something as petty as that class could make me think such a thing about God. Anyways I've rambled for a long time to get to the point of saying that all I am looking for is for me to stop putting so much stock in philosophy when God is the important thing. So here it goes for everyone who may or may not check this God is more important than philosophy and in all circumstances we should side with him because when our gut leads us there we can't deny that it is pointing us to the most important being to exist God. I will only look to philosophy to help me understand and defend my faith and beliefs but not to give them to me. The Bible explains the important things and I will let it lead me where I go.
Well I've rambled on long enough now. Peace out.
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