believing in a God you don't see

"and so we get down on our knees, close our eyes and see what happens" - nicole ritchie

firstly, i would like to clarify that i never watch "the simple life" mainly because i do not fancy watching paris hilton drain my iq to naught. the above soundbite was from one of those endless trailers always aired on star world, which i nearly always watch.

the above line reminded me of what one of our prominent bloggers wrote of her experience in church. answering an altar call, she was the only one who "didn't feel anything", and scorned all those who apparently did.

i am not too sure what was the exact phrasing, but that was the feeling i got: scorn and the refusal to believe in what is beyond science and possibly human understanding.

abovementioned blogger, in another ground-breaking post on the first day of 2005, dissed christians for having blind faith in God.

blind faith. well the literal meaning is true. we cannot see God, so in a sense our faith is blind because we cannot see. but 2 Corinthians 5:7 says that "we live by faith, not by sight" and John 20:29 says "blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed".

it goes against human logic to say that something we have yet to see exists. that is the principle behind the atheist argument - "there is no proof that God exists, so He does not exist."

yet by faith we know of His existence. we know that somewhere in jerusalem, sometime 2000 years ago, this guy named Jesus died for us because He loved us. it is by faith that we believe.

it is saddening that there are people like nicole who mock this faith, superficially classifying it as a mindless intoxication of some kind. like in Acts 2:13, people made fun of the apostles when they were filled with the Holy Spirit because they did not understand.

faith does not require superhuman iq or a high psle grade. faith is more like the courage to believe in what is yet to come.

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anyway i have some ideas for upcoming posts but am still working on them. anyone care to provide their views on the debates surrounding singlish and the bus fare hikes? hehe.