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[Guest JeffCR07]

I agree with the sentiments that back your statementit makes me think of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. A person who has once seen the truth and understands it to be the truth cannot return to a belief that the shadows on the wall are "reality." In the same way, you and I, who accept Christ as the one true Logos, the Word of God and the Light of the World, cannot conceive of returning to a process of thought that does not include Him.

That having been said, we must remember that it takes significantly more than pure reason to get to faith in Christ. Moreover, having lost the sanctifying Grace that God gave us, through Original Sin, we have aquired in its place the concupiscense that is the result of that sin. Thus our nature itself is "duel" we naturally seek God, for we are made in His image, and we naturally drive ourselves away from Him in our tendency towards sin.

Those people who do not accept Christ are merely acting accorded to our nature, which has been twisted by sin. I would not consider this "cowardice."

[RandomProddy]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Jul 8 2004, 08:21 AM'] infinitely small will always take up some space, because small implies some kind of size.

nothing implies ...nothing emptiness...blankness
smallness does not equal nothingness. [/quote]
Smallness does not imply nothing, but infinitely small does. It's a bit of a pain to prove mathematically but I assure you there is no such thing as the "smallest positive number".

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='JeffCR07' date='Jul 8 2004, 02:24 PM']

Those people who do not accept Christ are merely acting accorded to our nature, which has been twisted by sin. I would not consider this "cowardice." [/quote]
Jeff I am not talking about Christ, but of God.

[Guest JeffCR07]

I realise this, and truly, I know what you are trying to say, I am (poorly, I might add) simply trying to point out that we, who are finite, have a very hard time, especially unguided, comprehending an Infinite God. Buddhists have come up with a very different explanation that Christians did, whose explanation was very different from that of the Greeks, whose explanation was very different than that of the Taoists or disciples of Confucius. Nihilists and Atheists have existed in every Age. I am merely trying to point out that doubt is part of our twisted, fallen nature, and it is the inevitable result of our concupiscense. You know that my faith is the same as yours, and we do not really disagree about anything, I am merely saying that faith is not "easy" and so a lack of faith is not "cowardice"

- Your Brother In Christ, Jeff