Savoia
Dave, why, instead of those questions above to which you obviously
have no answer, do you not ask the more obvious questions to which
you *can* have an answer? For example you asked:
"If Jesus is 'with me always', and God loves me, why do I experience
struggles in life?" You have no specific answers for this. The
premise is also a big "IF".
However, if you ask instead the reverse: "If I have struggles in
life, then why do I believe Jesus is 'with me always' and God
loves me?". Here there is no IF about the premise. Furthermore, you
*can* answer this question satisfactorily. An obvious answer is that
he isn't with you, that you wish to believe it only as a
psychological mechanism to help get through those struggles.
I propose that you're asking the wrong questions.
Cheers,
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Michael Savoia
msavoia@iac.co.jp