Reasonable Faith -

A guy at work one day made a comment like this, ‘Yeah, but there are other people who are just as passionate about what they believe as you are’. And he was right, but unfortunately, passion does not validate what we believe…

Science can tell us more about how our world works than ever before. But until we start addressing the question of ‘why’, meaning and purpose will continue to elude us. Even if science could explain how the universe came into existence, without knowing why it’s all pointless…

Phrases like ‘coping with reality’ should have been made redundant by now in our ‘Brave New World’. After all, why should we have to cope with reality when, as relativism says, we can create our own by determining what the truth is?

Feelings heavily influence, if not determine, how we act, what we eat, where we go, what we buy, whom we stay married to, and now even what we believe about truth and morality. If feelings are taking such a major role in our lives we should know more about them…

People who think have opinions that are backed up by what they believe is the truth. Discussing truth often gets people fired up because we all believe it’s on our side. But the strange thing about truth is it doesn’t side with anyone…

If we can’t see or sense something does it mean it’s not there? If you answered ‘yes’ then you would also have to believe that TVs, radios, microwaves, and mobile phones all work by magic. I have never seen radio waves or felt them, but to say they don’t exist would be foolish. So much physical reality is beyond our senses…

Eternity is more than a very long time, it’s a place you will stand where time will be irrelevant. The thought of eternity stretches our minds because we can’t find the beginning or end, but it is something we all know is there…

The desire for control is a deep, powerful urge within our being. We probably crave for control more than anything else. This is not entirely bad. Control is a necessity and applies to all matters of living…

Does that title unsettle you? Does it sound a little dangerous? It’s more than a provocative title; it’s a quote from a highly-educated person with a secular world-view…