Doubting Thomas? Crisis Of Faith

[Gilbert_Keith]

Those who deny God ask how we can love that which we cannot even see. This question reveals once again the shallowness of doubting God, for it is not what we see with the physical eye that we love. This is true of human love as well. We love someone because of the spirit that animates that someone, not because of the mere physical presence. If we loved only the physical, that would be lust, and we know how fleeting and illusory lust can be. The same could be said of the attraction we have for any item of clothing or jewelry. We are attracted not to the thing in itself, but to the spirit of the thing’s creator. And so when we look at the teeming beauty of the earth and the universe, it is the Creator that we ought to be attracted to, not merely the Creation. Anything less than worship of the Creator is a return to the shallowness of the old pagan religions of Greece and Rome … the mistaken worship and love of trees and rivers and such rather than the Invisible One who made them all.

 

[banjo]

Gilbert Keith:

DeFide

Likewise, I think God opens the door to doubts, real and serious doubts

On another note, I have known several people who have left or have considered leaving the Church because they find the sacrament of the Eucharist simply unbelievable.

As long as you remember that while God may permit temptation God is never the source of temptation. As for those who have left because of the Eucharist, too bad…they are walking away from the very source of increasing their faith.