Agnostic?

August 7, 2009 at 9:35 pm (Uncategorized) (, , , , , , )

David Dark tends to write what I think and don’t know how to say.  Which is okay because he’s much smarter than I am and he’s a literary genius and scholar.  And a believer.

I’ve tried to figure out how to explain myself.  I’m a believer.  A Christ-follower.  I believe in God, and in his power to change lives.  I also admit that I don’t know everything and CAN’T know everything.  That’s the very essence of faith.  My faith and agnosticism go hand in hand.  If I think I can know – that I can “get God”, understand him, know for SURE anything – than I don’t need faith.  At that point it becomes science.

I should say here that my faith is stronger since accepting that I can’t know, admitting I have doubts and questions about our practice of our faith, etc, than I ever did beforehand.

I should also mention that I’m referring to agnostic in the original sense of the word.  The root word meaning “knowledge” and the “a-” meaning “without”.  In our current culture people lump agnostics with athiests and they are in no way the same.  (Check out wikipedia for various types of both, and read the history of the word online.  What it means today is very skewed from its roots.)

Check out the article.  Quite interesting.

http://www.mygazines.com/issue/1243/37

2 Comments

  1. whogivesafish said,

    August 8, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    Congrats for being able to draw a distinction between faith and fact. If more believers could do so, we’d all be better off.

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  2. Tom Broad said,

    August 13, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    Very thought-provoking. You’ve got me thinking! And, great article.
    -tB

    Reply

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