Letters to the editor: The Weedpatch Gazette
Letters to the editor: The Weedpatch Gazette
By: Matthew Sgherzi
Topics: religion, religious, christianity, god, lord, JESUS, christ, Letters to the Editor, sgherzi, matthew sgherzi, Bear Valley, Bear Valley Springs, Tehachapi
Posted by msgherzi Mon Mar 26, 2007 13:18:50 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments Sam Heath of the Weedpatch Gazette posted on March 21 with the subject being "All we have is hope, not faith" and quoting scripture saying "Faith without works is dead" and how we are "hardwired to believe in God and prayer". Here is my response:
Yes, Scripture does say "Faith without works is dead"(James 2:20) but Works without Faith is also dead aswell. The Bible also states "I Will walk by Faith, not by sight."(2 corinthians 5:7). It doesn't say hope or love or knowledge or science, but faith. If you have no faith, you have no hope. I'm not understanding how religion as a whole can become "a threat to a nation". Some yes, others no. I just don't see Monks taking down a nation is all. I can see a religion like Islam taking down a nation, which they have done in the past and currently are doing. But I do not see Christianity being a threat to a country.
However, I've heard this same argument for years now that we are hardwired to believe in a God and are hardwired to believe that if we happen to pray that by such things we believe because we have been hardwired to do so. I'm sorry but it's rubbish. It's another excuse from the individuals to want nothing to do with God. I seem to find that the anti-Christian, anti-God, anti-religious individuals are constantly coming up with excuses to find a flaw, or fault somewhere within Christianity as a whole. Since there is none besides the twisting and turning and Biblical gymanstics that one who falls into the category may play, there are these excuses like "There is no scientific proof of Jesus' existence" or perhaps "You're hardwired to believe in a God!". Well allow me to ask where the hardwiring is done? Who does that hardwiring? Maybe we're hardwired into believing we're hardwired to have a relationship with God and believing he sent His only Son into this world as our sacrificial lamb. I just believe individuals who use this excuse need to ask themselves what they are really saying, because it really does not add up.
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