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Struggles by Non-Christians
Life being intended to be difficult and a non-obvious "God"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lukaris" data-source="post: 77054980" data-attributes="member: 198106"><p>I believe the book of Ecclesiastes is a good summation and coming to maturity of our understanding of God and our existence. We should remain spiritually, morally, psychologically etc. observant of what transpired in the Old Covenant that precedes Ecclesiastes & understand this within the Lord’s commandments. </p><p></p><p>Jesus Christ, our Lord, clearly sums these matters up in Matthew 22:36-40 and other Gospel writers, like Luke, give us additional insight into this in the example of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37. </p><p></p><p>I believe if a person can come to an understanding that what this world is really like as the Lord tells us in John 16:33, we can understand the reality of our existence. Adding to this is what the Lord says in Luke 13:1-9. </p><p></p><p>Paul tells us the summation of the Lord’s commandments and the conformation of our conscience to it in 1 Timothy 1:1-5 & the overall understanding of what this entails is 1 Timothy 2:1-6. The basic understanding of this was revealed by Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:1-15. Obviously this does not mean being some kind of zombie but a critical thinking which acknowledges a higher authority in God. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully this can provide a sense of common sense but faithful understanding in which we can see our brokenness ( Romans 3:23-25 etc.). From this we can understand the worthy creeds the ancient Christians have formed & given to us like the Nicene & Apostles’ creeds:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goarch.org/-/the-nicene-creed[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usccb.org/prayers/apostles-creed[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lukaris, post: 77054980, member: 198106"] I believe the book of Ecclesiastes is a good summation and coming to maturity of our understanding of God and our existence. We should remain spiritually, morally, psychologically etc. observant of what transpired in the Old Covenant that precedes Ecclesiastes & understand this within the Lord’s commandments. Jesus Christ, our Lord, clearly sums these matters up in Matthew 22:36-40 and other Gospel writers, like Luke, give us additional insight into this in the example of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37. I believe if a person can come to an understanding that what this world is really like as the Lord tells us in John 16:33, we can understand the reality of our existence. Adding to this is what the Lord says in Luke 13:1-9. Paul tells us the summation of the Lord’s commandments and the conformation of our conscience to it in 1 Timothy 1:1-5 & the overall understanding of what this entails is 1 Timothy 2:1-6. The basic understanding of this was revealed by Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:1-15. Obviously this does not mean being some kind of zombie but a critical thinking which acknowledges a higher authority in God. Hopefully this can provide a sense of common sense but faithful understanding in which we can see our brokenness ( Romans 3:23-25 etc.). From this we can understand the worthy creeds the ancient Christians have formed & given to us like the Nicene & Apostles’ creeds: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goarch.org/-/the-nicene-creed[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.usccb.org/prayers/apostles-creed[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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