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<blockquote data-quote="Elle12" data-source="post: 73728844" data-attributes="member: 417752"><p>Thank you for your testimony. I have heard and read about laying on of hands, but I guess it isn't really practiced, or at least emphasized, as a part of baptism at the churches I have seen. Or infant baptism. Unless it's unspoken. I would feel quite awkward walking up to my minister and asking him to lay hands on me?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't, though. My belief, if you can call it that, is in hypotheticals. I believe that maybe Jesus did exist, and it's possible that he is who the Bible depicts him as, but I don't believe it as a truth. This line of thinking is part of what I struggle with. I read the Bible and I try to understand it, I understand a lot of the philosophical and moral messages of it - mainly because they jive with my existing worldview - but I don't believe all of it, and I don't believe it's the infallible word of God. I don't have reason to believe that. I have difficulty justifying belief in the Bible, finding reasons to do so, especially with the translations of translations and the differences in perspectives related to how we should apply the teachings to our current lives.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thank you. I don't quite understand how to take a helpful message away from this, unfortunately. Wait to be broken, is what I am reading, and perhaps that is just the discouragement I'm already feeling. Does it really take desperation to believe?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have been praying for God to open my eyes, my mind, my heart. For over a year it has been a more-than-daily prayer. It's another thing to try, I guess, but I'm afraid that once I stop I'd never be able to subject myself to daily heartache the same way I do in seeking faith.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elle12, post: 73728844, member: 417752"] Thank you for your testimony. I have heard and read about laying on of hands, but I guess it isn't really practiced, or at least emphasized, as a part of baptism at the churches I have seen. Or infant baptism. Unless it's unspoken. I would feel quite awkward walking up to my minister and asking him to lay hands on me? I don't, though. My belief, if you can call it that, is in hypotheticals. I believe that maybe Jesus did exist, and it's possible that he is who the Bible depicts him as, but I don't believe it as a truth. This line of thinking is part of what I struggle with. I read the Bible and I try to understand it, I understand a lot of the philosophical and moral messages of it - mainly because they jive with my existing worldview - but I don't believe all of it, and I don't believe it's the infallible word of God. I don't have reason to believe that. I have difficulty justifying belief in the Bible, finding reasons to do so, especially with the translations of translations and the differences in perspectives related to how we should apply the teachings to our current lives. Thank you. I don't quite understand how to take a helpful message away from this, unfortunately. Wait to be broken, is what I am reading, and perhaps that is just the discouragement I'm already feeling. Does it really take desperation to believe? I have been praying for God to open my eyes, my mind, my heart. For over a year it has been a more-than-daily prayer. It's another thing to try, I guess, but I'm afraid that once I stop I'd never be able to subject myself to daily heartache the same way I do in seeking faith. [/QUOTE]
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