22. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
Losing touch with a good friend who lives right near me. For sure. Because you can always visit that friend that moved away (not to mention video chat and talking on the phone) but once you drop a friendship right next to you, it's harder to pick up again than getting on an airplane.
23. What are you most grateful for?
I'm most grateful for God's character being the way it is. Because logically, either He's alive and He is who He says He is or He doesn't exist at all.
It is my honor to be a witness that He is alive (because I have witnessed Him being who He says He is).
So how awful would it be not if God did exist, but if He wasn't who He says He is? It would be even worse than living in a world where there was no God at all (which would be an oxymoron anyway since He is the creator and sustainer of all).
Everything "going wrong" wouldn't mean everything blowing up in your face. Everything "going wrong" would mean that there wasn't anything good to trust or believe in when everything was blowing up in your face. I don't think the world would just end-I think it would be a huge obstacle course of torture that drags on for a long time and at the end of which you are left to die alone, full of fear and purposelessness.
24. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Dang, that's rough. Well if I had to lose all my old memories, I wouldn't know anything now. Not even how to talk or eat by myself. That would really be bad. But if I could never make any new memories, life would be really frustrating as well. Especially if I was aware of the fact that I wouldn't remember anything I did the next day.
I think I would rather keep my old memories because although I don't know that much, I don't want to loose what I do know about what really matters in life.
25. Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
I don't think so. I never realized it before now because it happens so quickly but at least when it comes to seen things, the question that goes through my mind before I accept what I see as reality is: is this real or not? If our brains never tricked us or there were no such thing as a lie, we could accept everything we perceived without question but since the devil is real and a liar, I think it's good that we challenge truth. Because God, who is full of truth will stand the test and everything else will not.
Losing touch with a good friend who lives right near me. For sure. Because you can always visit that friend that moved away (not to mention video chat and talking on the phone) but once you drop a friendship right next to you, it's harder to pick up again than getting on an airplane.
23. What are you most grateful for?
I'm most grateful for God's character being the way it is. Because logically, either He's alive and He is who He says He is or He doesn't exist at all.
It is my honor to be a witness that He is alive (because I have witnessed Him being who He says He is).
So how awful would it be not if God did exist, but if He wasn't who He says He is? It would be even worse than living in a world where there was no God at all (which would be an oxymoron anyway since He is the creator and sustainer of all).
Everything "going wrong" wouldn't mean everything blowing up in your face. Everything "going wrong" would mean that there wasn't anything good to trust or believe in when everything was blowing up in your face. I don't think the world would just end-I think it would be a huge obstacle course of torture that drags on for a long time and at the end of which you are left to die alone, full of fear and purposelessness.
24. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Dang, that's rough. Well if I had to lose all my old memories, I wouldn't know anything now. Not even how to talk or eat by myself. That would really be bad. But if I could never make any new memories, life would be really frustrating as well. Especially if I was aware of the fact that I wouldn't remember anything I did the next day.
I think I would rather keep my old memories because although I don't know that much, I don't want to loose what I do know about what really matters in life.
25. Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
I don't think so. I never realized it before now because it happens so quickly but at least when it comes to seen things, the question that goes through my mind before I accept what I see as reality is: is this real or not? If our brains never tricked us or there were no such thing as a lie, we could accept everything we perceived without question but since the devil is real and a liar, I think it's good that we challenge truth. Because God, who is full of truth will stand the test and everything else will not.