I am very thankful for advil because reading Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion gave me one major headache. Like most readings for this challenging class, I had to go back and reread most parts of this reading. Hume attempts to prove God is real through the use of explanation. This is very hard, but as christians we know that we are not made to completely understand God and the way He works, with our own minds. Hume makes it easy for us, as humans, to question God and become skeptical towards his almighty power and even existence. To truly know God is to believe in Him and know without a doubt that He sent his one and only son to die on a cross so that we can live in Heaven for eternity. This reading represents God as this enigma. I do not believe it is wrong to see God as this though because we are not Him. If we knew things like all the answers to the test, why the sky is blue, or why ice cream is so good, wouldn’t we be God. What would be the purpose of us needing to lean on Him and see His love? We, as individual christians, have to believe that He is real and created everyone and everything for a specific purpose and doing. I want to end my blog post with a bible verse that has helped grow my faith in times of unassurance.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
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