Baptized Catholic, family converted to strict Christianity after that then early adulthood I considered myself agnostic.
Now I’d say agnostic Christian but that’s contradictory. Maybe spiritual? Idk
I don’t go to church and do things like that as why I say that.
I don’t like force what I believe in on other people. Common sense says that is not my place and also rude. I don’t wish to convert people. I’m not on a mission to ‘shove it down throats’
It’s the little things that show me God is looking out for me. I’ve got my own set of things im dealing with as everyone else does too.
But finding my vape (I lose it a lot) and then getting an urge to make my bed and suddenly finding it ?
That’s a miracle. Little things like that. Needing extra and then being bored decided to go through my old purses and found 100 dollars?
Those things are HUGE to me. Relieve so much stress. And they seldom happen. I’m thankful for a lot.
I’m grateful for those moments.
Not really. It is a pretty reasonable position to take. What makes you think there is contradiction in such a statement?
“agnostic” - it’s not possible to know who’s right.
“Christian” - Christians are right.
You … DON’T see a contradiction…?
Well sure, if you use those definitions. They aren’t very good ones. Agnosticism in general makes no claims about if knowing is possible. It is simply the statement that your position isn’t based on you knowing the truth. Neither agnostic or gnostic actually make a statement on what you believe, just how you justify it.
You can also be a Christian without knowing if Jesus is real or not, but simply because you think there is value in taking the Bible’s word for it. To be a (small g) gnostic Christian would require not only personal experience of the divine, but some kind of certainty that it is what it appeared to be, Paul for instance would (claim to) be such a person.
Oh OK so a pathetic loser who’s taking Pascal’s Wager and not actually believing anything, got it.
And any Christian who became a Christian through reading the bible or being taught it by another who isn’t a liar and a hypocrite. I suspect most people who identify as a Christian would also claim agnosticism if they ever took the time to think about it. Though most I think tend to get on with their lives and leave that thinking to their priests.
If they’re empowering the priests, they’re nothing more than useful idiots.
Idk I guess bc with being agnostic their is doubt I feel like maybe
Do you think you can believe something without knowing it is true? As an example, you might believe that I am a guy you are actually communicating with, you could also believe that I am Canadian, but do you actually feel like you know either of those things?