JohnH comments on Crisis of Faith - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JohnH 22 April 2011 08:35:55PM -2 points [-]

God's ways are mysterious and it is presumptuous to suppose that we can understand them.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason: and intellect has intended to forgo their use". Gods "thoughts are higher then out thoughts" but "this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." and we are approaching "A time to come in which nothing shall be withheld".

The easiest way to have a crisis of faith is to go out and commit sins, but then the question is are you actually questioning the faith or justifying your sins?

As for everyone that says that delusion is better then truth, perhaps not for you but for others, what makes you think you are different than anyone else? Why do you want truth but think others shouldn't?