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How To Deconstruct Your Faith Without Losing It
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<blockquote data-quote="afishamongmany" data-source="post: 72168700" data-attributes="member: 314780"><p>Hello Sarah G – O dear, I read through T. Hukabee's article and found it quite depressing. There is so much of this stuff around these days.</p><p></p><p>The main message seemed to be that being secure and certain in the christian faith is crass but that uncertainty and insecurity about what one believes is cool. The Mchargue quote, “<em>The biggest thing I got from being a fundamentalist evangelical and then a fundamentalist atheist, was I was fundamentally wrong about how the world works twice. I’m determined to not make that mistake again.” </em>seem to be advocating a life of continual incertitude. This is not what The Lord teaches.</p><p></p><p>It's all so vague. I don't know what Sarah Bessey believed before her 'faith deconstruction' nor what she believed after it. She talks of 'a system of beliefs' that 'are no longer adequate', that she no longer trusts. Here is the crux of it. Saving, sustaining christian faith is trust in and knowledge of a person, the Jesus Christ of the Bible. Doctrine (systems of belief?) is important but first must be that foundational rock on which all else (that endures) is built.</p><p></p><p>God's word speaks of growing in faith, walking in faith, overcoming by faith. We are told that, faith is substance and evidence and that by faith we understand things that otherwise would be unknowable to us. Nowhere is the notion of 'deconstruction' 'reconstruction' of faith taught as being a component of sound christian living. Paul does warn of the possibility of faith being shipwrecked.</p><p></p><p>Go well, go wisely</p><p>><></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="afishamongmany, post: 72168700, member: 314780"] Hello Sarah G – O dear, I read through T. Hukabee's article and found it quite depressing. There is so much of this stuff around these days. The main message seemed to be that being secure and certain in the christian faith is crass but that uncertainty and insecurity about what one believes is cool. The Mchargue quote, “[I]The biggest thing I got from being a fundamentalist evangelical and then a fundamentalist atheist, was I was fundamentally wrong about how the world works twice. I’m determined to not make that mistake again.” [/I]seem to be advocating a life of continual incertitude. This is not what The Lord teaches. It's all so vague. I don't know what Sarah Bessey believed before her 'faith deconstruction' nor what she believed after it. She talks of 'a system of beliefs' that 'are no longer adequate', that she no longer trusts. Here is the crux of it. Saving, sustaining christian faith is trust in and knowledge of a person, the Jesus Christ of the Bible. Doctrine (systems of belief?) is important but first must be that foundational rock on which all else (that endures) is built. God's word speaks of growing in faith, walking in faith, overcoming by faith. We are told that, faith is substance and evidence and that by faith we understand things that otherwise would be unknowable to us. Nowhere is the notion of 'deconstruction' 'reconstruction' of faith taught as being a component of sound christian living. Paul does warn of the possibility of faith being shipwrecked. Go well, go wisely ><> [/QUOTE]
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