INSIDE OUT

I love to analyze. Actually, I just analyze. I neither chose to be this way nor do I think I was raised to be this way. I just analyze things. Yes, I analyze my relationship with my friends, my spouse, my kids, etc. It is no different with God, whom I have a relationship with. I am not a scholar and took no more than one course in Religious studies. It was on Paul of Tarsus. You will find I don't trust him very much.

You will also find I ask a lot of questions here. I hope that you could find the time to help me on my search for answers. I believe that the bible would have us search for truth. I don't just believe because I am raised in a family and culture that believes in something. There are far too many people who disagree with my "Christian" beliefs than agree with them. I want to know why.

If you choose to have a "simple" faith, please don't read this part of my blog. It is your choice to believe in what you believe in, with that approach. You won't want to hear the things I write about here. I was scared when I first started this journey. I am now relieved to find the truth of Jesus... without being confined to a book. Who knows, in the end we may come to believe the same things. You would be truly blessed if you find "the truth" without searching the way I feel I need to.

My faith is not shaken because I don't believe in the bible as a whole. Some may find it "shady" to believe in a faith where the bible is the "main product" and yet don't believe in its entirety. That doesn't phase me. My God is bigger than a book. If you search historical data, there is no question as to the validity of Jesus. I don't just "pick and choose" which part of the bible I believe. It has to line up. It has to make sense. If it doesn't, I approach with caution. I do this with any historical document. Don't you? Do you disbelieve in Christopher Columbus just because you haven't seen him? In the same way, do you believe everything you hear about him? I know in school I did. But that shouldn't mean that it was "all" true, does it? And so it is with the bible. Just because I don't believe in the bible as a "whole", doesn't mean that God's truth cannot be found in it. God is amazing. I find evidence of him everyday.

I encourage all correction and clarification to my thoughts. Lord knows, I need it