This is one of the more fun sentences I've seen here recently.EmperorSolo51 wrote:That's the beauty of Why I became a Christian, unlike in the other religions Christianity still has that sublime mysteriousness of God and we as Christians are encouraged to revel in those mysteries of Faith so that we can try to understand Him better.
We revel in the unknown by keeping it unexplainable and unknown, and thus we somehow understand God/Jesus/the unknown better.
I know jack shit about quantum mechanics. I don't know how it works, or what it does, but if I sit back and do nothing...not open a book, not study how it works or if it even works, then that will bring me closer to understanding quantum mechanics according to this line of reasoning.
Isn't this just an excuse for Christians to be intellectually lazy? See, to me, this just seems to say that it requires not only faith, but pretty much BLIND faith in order to actually follow through with that. It's pretty evident, when you don't even have to TRY to explain something that makes no sense at all.
You're never going to understand something by reveling in it's mysteriousness. Unless this is really the core of Christianty (I guess a case could be made that it is). It just seems to me that when Christianity runs across anything it can't explain, it pulls out the trump card every single time without fail. "It's a miricle. God did it so we don't have to explain it. God works in mysterious ways, et al". That's not finding answers, and that's not getting closer to the truth. That's just stepping off a cliff and having faith you won't fall.