Well, almost no faith. It's extremely weak. I barely believe in Jesus dying for our sins
Someone on Facebook mentioned that such a God who would send his Son into the world to die in the worst type of death imaginable is the most sadistic God you could think of, and it kind of caused me to stumble. What do I do?
faith and doubt go hand in hand. I think faith is to be kept on God himself rather than only on the acts he does for us which are done out of his love. I have often said the same kinds of things to people as the guy on facebook said because some peoples view of God is more kin to a God who must make a savage blood sacrifice rather than a God who sent his son to us to reveal to us the good news that we also may be free as the son is free.
the parables of Jesus are very deep and people tend to understand them by a view of God that is the view of corrupted human nature in the spirit of the world and so we must be born again and live in the holy spirit to be properly taught of God what it is that God is revealing to us least we stumble over the cornerstone due to the weakness of our understanding since we are used to the so-called wisdom of the world rather than the wisdom from God. but this parable does help one to see from Gods pov what was going on when he sent his prophets and servants who were killed by blind people and when even his own son was sent to the world. but we are all growing up to the Lord and so each of our souls is in a different place of understanding and so God wishes that we all keep on growing up more and more into all the rich treasures of his spirit that that he gives to us.
Matt 21:33-40 (YLT)
`Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it, and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner. `And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son; and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance; and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him; whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'
such a God that would not keep trying to resolve the insane condition that humans sometimes find themselves in is far worse of a thing than to love the world so much that you give your only son. it must have been VERY important to God to risk his own son and it is because God says that "all souls belong to him". Gods love is very powerful, it does not conform itself to "survival of the fittest". love is dangerous to the world because men often believe that once they die that this is it and so they form their opinions upon the basic animal nature and they form a way of life and a morality that is not fully based upon the heart of God, which is something you can only understand when you have felt a strong love that can in some way relate to the infinite and eternal love that God himself is.
basically the life in the spirit is contrary to the lesser conditions of our fallen world or our natural world or a souls perception of reality that is blinding them from the freedom of the son of God.... when those things would keep a soul in chains of darkness.
