Belief... sometimes it seems too hard to pin down beliefs. How do you define them? How do you describe them? How often they change from year to year, conversation to conversation, even moment to moment.
As a Philosophy major I feel a lot of pressure to know what I believe and how to defend it. Yet, with one conversation I begin to doubt and lean a new direction. A second conversation makes me sway back to where I started. Stating "I believe that the sky is blue, that the sun will rise tomorrow..." can seem so concrete. But stop and think about what that means. Beliefs are not cards you swap when you prefer hearts over diamonds. They can't be deposited and protected at a bank. If you don't have the words you can't just say, "See!"
Accepting a new belief can happen so quickly and easily. There are no papers to sign, no loans to pay back on it. They are so easy to accept or deny, a part of our everyday lives, yet the metaphysical concept can still seem so airy and foreign.
You cannot physically flash your beliefs, they are established or crushed in seconds, yet, they still determine your entire eternal destiny.
Though we seem to have an obsession with what we can see and test, the most impalpable is still the most binding.
As a Philosophy major I feel a lot of pressure to know what I believe and how to defend it. Yet, with one conversation I begin to doubt and lean a new direction. A second conversation makes me sway back to where I started. Stating "I believe that the sky is blue, that the sun will rise tomorrow..." can seem so concrete. But stop and think about what that means. Beliefs are not cards you swap when you prefer hearts over diamonds. They can't be deposited and protected at a bank. If you don't have the words you can't just say, "See!"
Accepting a new belief can happen so quickly and easily. There are no papers to sign, no loans to pay back on it. They are so easy to accept or deny, a part of our everyday lives, yet the metaphysical concept can still seem so airy and foreign.
You cannot physically flash your beliefs, they are established or crushed in seconds, yet, they still determine your entire eternal destiny.
Though we seem to have an obsession with what we can see and test, the most impalpable is still the most binding.
"God is not changed one iota by who man says He is. Man's entire future, however, resides squarely upon it's shoulders." -Beth Moore, "Believing God"
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