"Life, Love, God, and Other Questions"

A new blog carnival has just published its inaugural edition at Despair and Coffee. They're calling it "Life, Love, God, and Other Questions." I saw an announcement for it a few days ago and decided to join at least once, and apparently Jeremy at Parableman did, too.

The collection there is considerably more diverse than at the Christian Carnival I've participated in before. Geek and Father, for example, raised a plaintive question:

"So I believe something is out there. And I haven’t the slightest d*** clue what it might be."

He believes faith is "a firm belief in something for which there is no proof." I would suggest to him that there's some truth in that (God's existence cannot be proved the way a geometric theorem can be). But often people who say this also intend it to mean that faith is a firm belief about something for which there is no evidence, or about which we have no knowledge. Neither of those, thankfully, is the case for Christianity. We have considerable knowledge and evidence for the God of the Bible.

Much of what he rejects about Christianity isn't actually Christianity--I would reject it too! It would be interesting to open up a conversation with him. And it will be interesting to see where this Carnival heads.

Posted: Sat - June 30, 2007 at 11:46 AM |

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"Life, Love, God, and Other Questions"

Thinking Christian by Tom Gilson