SO JESUS DIED FOR MY SINS?

April 11, 2009 – 3:02 pm


It’s Easter weekend and Christians have once again remembered the day on which Jesus died for our sins. So, apart from the obvious question of why does Easter always fall on different dates, I’m wondering why Jesus died for my sins in the first place?

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Jesus died for my sins. That was nice of him, but I am not sure I can understand why. I mean, to me that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. Jesus is God, and he is also God’s son. He came to earth to hang out with the nice folk in the middle east, and they killed him in the most awful way, but he was okay with that because he did that to save me? But hang on, what was he saving me from? God’s judgement? He is God though, so if he wanted to save me why not just not go through all the bother of getting nailed to a cross. Maybe I’ll again be accused of blasphemy when I ask this, but wasn’t that all just pointless theatrics?
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GOING TO CHURCH

March 15, 2009 – 5:47 pm


I’ve believed in God for as long as I can remember. God just seems to make sense to me. I look around and it seems entirely logical that a creative, powerful, and timeless force would be behind the science that has woven this world and all others together. I’ve never really thought anything other than that, never considered the possibility that God might be nothing more than a creation of mankind in order to answer the questions we cannot answer. I believe in God from beginning to end because the thought of a Godless world where we come from nothing and go to nothing seems bleak and empty to me. Life surely has to be about more than just making the rent, watching TV, sex, eating, and dying slowly.

I was criticized by a friend recently for not being more open and honest on this blog. She told me that, while interesting, the two previous posts read more like articles than the writings of someone who was trying to confront the most searching questions of God and faith.
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STARTING AGAIN

January 24, 2009 – 6:16 pm


I’m not an honest blogger. By that I don’t mean that I lie, I just mean that I’m not the kind of blogger who sees every emotion or thought in my head as an opportunity to bare my soul. I’m more reserved than that, or dare I even say more conservative. However that’s where my conservatism ends.

I started this blog in order to find God. The somewhat irreverent title was meant in jest, and also to perhaps make those holier-than-thou types feel a little uncomfortable in their seats or pews. But more than that, it was a genuine expression of my searching heart – I mean really, who the hell is God?
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