I once saw a video of Dr William Lane Craig talking about
how it is possible for one to have faith in God even though he or she may have
doubts about the faith. There is a practical side to this. After all, it is not
possible for one to have knowledge or absolute rationality before one commits
himself or herself to a belief. But Dr Craig did add that what one possible
thing a person can do about his stumbling block to faith is to make it a sort
of research project, and take the question and examine it to its fullest so as
to obtain understanding and remove that stumbling block to faith.
I have one such stumbling block to faith at the moment.
And that is the question why God does not seem to answer my prayers. I do pray
for things like healing for my tension headache, for the gift of understanding and
intelligence so that I may do well in my law school studies, and to be better
in my social skills. I have said the same prayers asking for these things for
myself a lot of time.
Well, my logic is simple. If God says in the bible that
he will answer prayers, and indeed, my prayers are not getting answered, then
there must be something wrong with what is said in the bible. Of course, there
may be many possible reasons why prayers are not getting answered.
The usual answer I get when I ask fellow Christians why
my prayers don’t get answered is that God will answer our prayers according to
his will. I do accept this reasoning, and I do accept that it is better for God’s
will to be done. But it can seem unclear why there should be better alternative
than what is asked for. And the lack of any response can also seem unnervingly
like God is absent or non-existent.
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