It's an interesting idea that humans have an instinct to seek religion. In part 10 of Hume's Dialogues on Natural Religion, Demea states, "that each man
somehow feels in his heart the truth of religion, and that
what leads him to seek protection from ·God·, the being
on whom he and all nature depend, is not any reasoning
but rather his consciousness of his own weakness and
misery." We all know that we sin and we believe that God can wash away our sins so that one day we may enter into Heaven. We are scared of our own mortality and forget to enjoy life that God has provided us because we are always worried about the future and praying that God will protect us.
I commented on Daniel Stephen's post.
When Hume said that humans have an instinct to seek religion, he reminded me of the beauty of how God works in our life even before we truly know Him. It just paints a beautiful picture of true love.
ReplyDeleteGood point. Christ has overcome the world and death, so what is there left to fear? We get so caught up in everything we fear and forget to actually live life. Christ came to dispel these fears, so we could live a life pleasing to Him and, in turn, pleasurable for us. Our forgetfulness of this fact is probably why “do not fear” is in the Bible so many times.
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