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Originally Posted by DNND  Here is the main problem I have with agnosticism: the negative connotations people have with the concept. I’m a disbeliever. Denier of God’s word. A lost soul. A depressed introvert. And – the one I hate the most – an alternative form of an atheist. |
I can certainly relate to the guilt and yes, fear, that comes from questioning your own faith. I remember when I dared to think that I could become 'a Christ', as it's put in the Bible. How dare I?
I feel that in order to be a 'good' agnostic, requires that you live according to the best directives that your concept of a god demands. We were not make to be cowards! If you are cowardly in this life, it is because you chose it.
The following article talks of the streanth I refer to:
A man can not have confidence to speak freely, unless he has no way that another human could bring him down, except possibly by force of arms. That means not humiliation, shame, fear, nor poverty. When I give the following remarks, they will be meant to define the things that have no relationship with the ‘physical’ needs to live, we have to do what have to. We will consider only the ‘strengths’ and ‘mental attitudes’, that would give one the fortitude, courage, moxey, and boldness, balls, to ‘enter boldly’ into the household of God using the power of God you will bring with you; the presentation to God of a man well spent.
The highest standard that I can find for a man person to achieve is absolute ‘confidence’; like needed to do as Christ said about entering the House of God ‘boldly’! Think about it! It is a saying that infers the use of, attributes, or abilities to influence a coming ‘effect’ to which, is guaranteed certainty of your experience; we will enter, either Boldly as exhorted, or not!
To enter boldly requires that you have you at the moment of death, well established attributes. I must define attributes since I am using it to ‘represent’ things that are good and necessary for us as strengths to be presented for their use at death, having their ability ‘to be used’, anchored in what would be your now past life. Either death gives us a choice, or there is nothing! If there is not, than the confident man will at least have confidence while alive. But if we do have a choice; it would allow no time to lose your ‘confidence’, the same way that there will be ‘no time’ to gain it. Therefore the things that are required to ‘enter boldly’, are things we should best seek while we have today; and they are all ‘things’ for which a man cannot take credit! They are the ‘expressions’ of the things you receive from your Higher Power.