Tag: christianity
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Problems with the Tower of Babel
I think this was the next item on my domino list, if for no other reason than the proximity to the flood. No one denies that, in addition to any potentially legitimate historical existence, the Tower of Babel story has significant symbolic meaning. Since it is commonly taught as an actual historic event, I thought…
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Blame and Credit. Is God due any of it?
[For whatever reason, the latter part of this post does not display properly on mobile devices. FYI] This subject is one that I’ve taken issue with for my entire life. I always felt blaming or crediting God for most things just didn’t sit right. It wasn’t until my deconstruction journey that I was able put…
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Our Impaired Free Will
This is a tough one. In a previous post I mentioned how I’d get into our impaired human capacity to choose God. This was never something I had ever considered prior to just a few months ago but is now quite obvious. Imagine you are a young child of a radicalized terrorist and live in…
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The Exception
I guess I lied. In a previous post I said I didn’t I have any control over what I believe. There is a single solitary exception to this, I think. When my house of cards came tumbling down a few years ago, I reached a bit of low point. I was asking myself, at this…
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The Irresistible Force Paradox
There is a fun thought experiment of what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. It’s a bit of a silly analogy, but you can think of the unstoppable force being the deconstruction movement and the immovable object being the status quo. Because I am most aligned with SDA beliefs historically, I consider…
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What it means to abandon a belief
What does it mean to abandon a biblical belief? I have two working definitions. 1.) To no longer believe that something is true to the extent that there are no mental gymnastics or interpretive changes that could be implemented to save it. 2.) To no longer believe an interpretation you have been taught about a…
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Why does someone deconstruct?
There are some who assume a person deconstructing must have some negative driving experience pushing them down this road. There must have been some past religious trauma for this to happen. It can be true, absolutely! But it’s not a requirement, and the entirety of the motive can simply be….because it was my time. No…
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Belief. Is it a choice?
Do you have any control over what you believe? Let’s say we’re outside at noon on a clear sunny day. I say I will pay you one million dollars if you can make yourself believe the sky is red and not blue. Then I ask you take a lie detector test (or let’s pretend you…
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Can I not deconstruct?
Starting a deconstruction journey is absolutely terrifying (for most people). There. We got that out of the way. Why, you say? Because! Because accepting that what you have believed for years or decades might not be true is severely consequential! In your relationships, your job (if you work for a church institution), your family, and…
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The before times…
Allow me to introduce myself. Born into the conservative SDA church, schooled up until college in the SDA educational system, and fed a steady diet of traditional beliefs, I was generally exactly how you’d expect to me to be. As a kid, I knew what I was supposed to be doing and not doing from…
Space For Doubt 