2a35ae No.11799
I’ve realized some things over the past few months. I finally realized that ultimately the Truth really is unknowable and I’ll have to take a leap of faith to actually get somewhere. I’ve exhausted all my outlets of gaining possible wisdom from Occultism to Philosophy and now I’m just left with two possible options: pure Agnostic uncertainty about everything or Christianity. I feel to actually pursue Christianity though I need to have some sort of breakthrough to actually achieve faith in God.
I was praying to God on a more or less continual basis and I was still left wondering, even with signs I thought could be from God I was still uncertain about everything. I was still the same person, the same person enslaved to his own mental fancies and desires of the flesh, still the person unmotivated to actually commit myself to anything, the person still left without real passion, and I continue to be so.
So do I just continue to pray until I feel the power of the Holy Ghost actually work within me or do I just choose another course of action?
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5e169c No.11800
You do neither because truth is knowable. We have general revelation and we have special revelation. The various cosmological arguments logically prove the existence of a creator, have you not encountered those yet? The best writer on this is William Lane Craig.
The only condition for the holy ghost to indwell you is salvation, and you are saved when you ask for it through Jesus.
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080964 No.11803
>>11799
Through prayer comes certainty, there is a heterodox gnosis and orthodox gnosis. We know this from the witness of the saints such as Meister Eckhart, Jakob Boehme, Gregory Palamas and so forth each corresponding to a specific Christian tradition. It isn't easy but so is philosophy, science and so forth.
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