The Tension of Faith

Except on the internet...

Wait, so if eternal life and procreation are mutually exclusive then; because God made Adam and Eve as male and female then He didn't intend for them to live forever.Which makes sense that there was a Tree of Life that would make them live forever if they ate from it. That would be pointless if they already would live forever.So do you agree that Adam and Eve were not created to live forever?

Yes, the wave-particle duality is a contradiction and is referred to as a paradox.The Calvinism-Arminianism paradox is also a contraction.

I don't think it's talking about physical things. If you read the whole chapter, as well as the end of Chapter 10 and the beginning of Chapter 12, it reads as if it is talking about the unseen future.

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Hebrews 10
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one anotherand all the more as you see the Day approaching.

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32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.

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36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

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39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

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Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.

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3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

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4 By faith Abel brought God...

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5 By faith Enoch was taken...

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7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family...

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8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going....

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13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.

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39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40 since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

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Hebrews 12
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

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The lesson is to keep your faith and press on even when you're not sure what the outcome is going to be. God is in charge of what is going to happen an He'll make it right if you stand by your faith and do the right thing.That's my take on it.It doesn't have anything to do with atoms, or in Faith's case granting believers special Bible-reading powers.

That sucks for the pre-Jesus Jews who thought they were God's chosen people but couldn't even get the whole story so were doomed to misunderstand it.

What you do matters 1000% more than what you believe.

Not according to Jesus, Himself:

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Matthew 16
17 Jesus replied, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

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That's you assuming the conclusion, but whatever, Jesus gave the keys to Peter the man, not to his testimony. And then He said whatever you bind - not whatever your testimony binds. Apostolic succession - the Papacy can be traced all the way back to Peter, the first Pope.Here's a list: List of popes - Wikipedia Nuh-uh, you're the one who's lying!

Wow. That pretty much let's the cat out of the bag.Your first rule for understanding the Bible is that you cannot be honest with yourself.That's gotta be the root of the tension.

You said that if it seems contradictory to you then the fault is your own. That's you not being honest with yourself.If you were being honest with yourself, then you would admit that it seems contradictory and investigate it.You denying your own thinking, and instead just assuming that the Bible is right and you are wrong, is you being dishonest with yourself.That's gotta be a source of tension.

I read that as a description of their own post and not yours

How do you know there aren't undetectable things in our physical universe?

Wait, wuuuuuut?Hate is an emotion held by a person. Only you, yourself, know what emotions you're feeling.Nobody but you can know if you really have hate or not. Oh, are you talking about, like, being a "hater"? Like, the colloquial term? Ya know, haters be hatin'.Is that what you're talking about? Hatred doesn't reside in statements, it resides in the heart. It's an emotion and it comes from your ego. Hmm, why the scare-quotes? What are you talking about, really?

You sound like a good little subject But that decision doesn't determine if you really have hate or not. As you go on to say:

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The law has no interest what you think and feel, only what you say and do.

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Still though: only you, yourself, know if you have hate or not.