Waiting (My Testimony)

[SFTS]

Why do you think you would be miserable without faith and that you wouldn't live a life of love without it?

Being alone is, in general, a fundamental fear of humans, secular as well as spiritual. Just think of the movie "Contact" when the alien says "You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."

Jodi Foster later says "I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision... of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everyone".

If you know the story behind this movie, you know it is very secular, but at a place where secular meets spirituality.

Myself, I don't want to be alone in this shell of a body I have and if it helps me to believe that God dwells within me, then that is what I need and there is nothing wrong with that. I know that I am not alone. I know that I am loved.

 

[oi_antz]

God needs our love? can't be for his benefit.

I don't know about that. I just told you how it looks to me. Why were you attracted to Him in the first place?

 

[chrisstavrous]

I don't know about that. I just told you how it looks to me. Why were you attracted to Him in the first place?

I don't know anymore, maybe because I was very sick.

 

[chrisstavrous]

Being alone is, in general, a fundamental fear of humans, secular as well as spiritual. Just think of the movie "Contact" when the alien says "You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."

Jodi Foster later says "I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision... of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everyone".

If you know the story behind this movie, you know it is very secular, but at a place where secular meets spirituality.

Myself, I don't want to be alone in this shell of a body I have and if it helps me to believe that God dwells within me, then that is what I need and there is nothing wrong with that. I know that I am not alone. I know that I am loved.

I don't really understand, how is the movie contact making a case that you can't love people without faith? Jodie Foster was always an unbeliever in god in that movie and she loved many people. Also wasn't it the religious fundamentalist acting purely on faith that destroyed the first machine.

 

[SFTS]

I don't really understand, how is the movie contact making a case that you can't love people without faith? Jodie Foster was always an unbeliever in god in that movie and she loved many people. Also wasn't it the religious fundamentalist acting purely on faith that destroyed the first machine.

I didn't say anything about not being able to love people without faith. My whole point from my previous post was that I would be miserable if "I" didn't have my faith and hope. I don't want to be alone and by faith I know I am not.

The whole point of "Contact" was that Jodi Foster's character had experienced loss and had been left alone by the death of both her father and mother. She lived a life of fear of connection with others because of those losses. She needed connections in her life and substituted trying to make contacts via ham radio and radio astronomy, searching for some(one)thing out there. What she learned from the alien contact was what the alien said "in all our searching, the only thing that makes the emptyness bearable is each other." She learned that "we are not alone".

There were two types of religious faith shown in the movie. One was, yes, the wacko ones and the other, her friend who stood by her, with his simple faith in God and not trying to force it on her, but just as a support and friend to her.

Going beyond this movie, for myself, I yearn for not only relationships with others around me, but a deeper inner relationship with God, because no matter how close a friend you have outside, no one else can make that inner contact with your heart that only God can. No one else can cross that river with you when your time comes. It's you and God alone.

I hope this helps you understand my testimony a little better.

 

[ForJesusChrist]

God's plan is not ours. We may not even like His plan. But He knows what is right and we should do as God wants us to do.

God Bless

 

[chrisstavrous]

God's plan is not ours. We may not even like His plan. But He knows what is right and we should do as God wants us to do.

God Bless

I searched for plan at bible gateway using the AKJV and it returned 0 results, have you christians made up this belief?