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Faith means trusting, not
questioning
I am writing in response to Mike Swisher's March
20 Exponent letter titled "Student loses faith with driver's death."
Mike, I'd just like to say, that if you are measuring your "faith" in
God by the good and bad things that happen to you, then you aren't actually
grasping the true meaning of faith.
I looked the word up and found that "faith" is
defined as the theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and
a trusting acceptance of God's will. Life is filled with all sorts of
trials and tribulations; no one said that it is going to be easy for
people to live in this world, but we can't just give up because something
bad has happened to us. And in response to the question where you asked,
"Would a truly omnipotent divinity have robbed us of a man like the
Intimidator?"
I would just like to present you with another question
— why would God "rob" the world of the greatest man that ever lived,
Jesus? Because that was his purpose, to be the perfect sacrifice, so
that we may be, "justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that came by Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:24). Who are we to question God's
will? So, Mike, I would just like to ask you to re-evaluate your "faith,"
and all who supposedly "lost" their faith because of Dale Earnhardt's
death.
Levi Wilson
Junior, School of Technology
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