Grace is the well of life,
The source of everything.
It is creation’s voice,
The spirit of our king.
There we find salvation,
Within it’s loving light.
It will profoundly change
Our sense of wrong and right.
It heaves within the breast
Of those who seek the path
That leads to redemption,
And shields us all from wrath.
Its gaze will pierce the heart,
And lay the spirit bare.
Any soul, insincere,
Will find only despair.
For grace is perfection,
Unblemished is its face.
None can look upon it,
And reject its embrace.
It shows us who we are,
Beneath our many masks.
Exposing our secrets,
To anyone who asks.
Once we have seen the truth,
And KNOW what we have been,
Grace becomes the fountain,
That makes us clean again.
It allows those who choose
To enter its embrace,
To find the salvation
They seek within God’s grace.
A contest entry
- Amazing Grace by Pisces rainbow.
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As an atheist I really can't accept any of this but I suppose it's quite a reasonable pastiche of the old evangelistic hymn. Not my cup of tea!
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I don't care for tea.
As a former atheist, I understand. I once believed the hogwash that science tries to feed the uninformed. I've debated a number of scientists who pretend to know the truth. Sadly, however, they cannot explain how a universe like ours can come from nothing. In the end, they always storm off in a huff, frustrated that they cannot refute my arguments. Stubbornness, pride, fear, and ignorance are the cornerstones of their paradigm. During my atheist years, they were mine as well. Don't get me wrong, the same is true of believers as well. It is true of ANYONE who accepts the conclusions of others without question. I believe in thinking for one's self, and allowing logic to guide you, not the THEORIES of narcissistic scientists or evangelists.
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Describing science as "hogwash" does not strike me as the most intelligent way to begin a discussion with scientists, nor does it indicate that you retain an open mind. I doubt that they "storm off in a huff, frustrated that they cannot refute your arguments"; more likely they walk away realising that arguing with a brick wall is pretty pointless. I have to say that I find the specious argument put forward by theists, that the universe "cannot have come from nothing" and therefore must have been created by a divine being, to be total illogical bollocks. But then I have not met a religious person for twenty or thirty years, so I am a bit out or practice at laughing at them. Best wishes from England, the land that has largely rejected religious twaddle, but where we have no objection to people believing in gods as long as they don't make too much fuss about it. Barry.
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Yes, I'm sure it's all very proper...and very English.
Since you're part of the congregation of science, why don't you take on one of my arguments...and prove how bloody illogical it is. Perhaps there's a good laugh in it for you. I'm always up for a debate with someone so confident in their own ignorance.
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I am hardly likely to waste my breath in an argument with someone who uses rude phrases like "hogwash" and who starts off a discussion with a remark like "I'm always up for a debate with someone so confident in their own ignorance". So goodbye.
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I didn't think you'd accept the challenge.
You know Berry, you do an outstanding job of distancing yourself from God. Kudos to you. On the other hand, you do a terrible job of separating yourself from war. You talk about it all the time, voicing you disapproval, but failing to hide the conflict that RAGES within you. Good and evil are simply concepts of morality…at least, according to Nietzsche. But there’s something to be said about such concepts when we are immersed in them. You talk about the many eyes you’ve blackened, and in the same breath, condemn war. The chief of one tribe blackens the eye of the chief of another. The chief on the receiving end, decides to retaliate, perhaps with a rock, or a brick, compelling the other to return the favor. Each attack escalates in its brutality until all out war begins. It seems to me that you don’t hate war, at least so much as what it made of you.
You say you stopped believing in God because of what you witnessed during wartime. Like the things one can do with a drill, for instance. Of course, one doesn’t truly understand the concepts of good and evil, until he is the one holding the drill. Isn’t that right Sergeant Major? Do you really hate war because of what you saw? Or do you hate war because of what you had to do in its name? Depending on what I did during the war, I might be inclined to reject God too, if I felt that He should have prevented my being put in such a horrific position. But then…I could have said no, couldn’t I? Court martial might have been better than living with the alternative, especially an alternative that can’t be taken back.
Wars are rarely fought by those who start them. They’re fought by children, who naively follow where they’re led. Making those children believe that military service is a matter of duty, patriotism, or freedom is how the few can cause the many to do their fighting for them. However, if the many said no, how many would the few imprison, or kill before the many took up arms against them? Unfortunately, the many are sheep, and they will go where they’re led. They may question the use of drills for the purpose of interrogation, but that won’t stop them from CHOOSING to follow orders. That’s the thing about free will, the God you reject CAN’T make you choose what you don’t want, or are too afraid to choose. The choice was yours, and you made it; and the consequences of that choice are also yours…to live with. Pass it all you like, but the buck stops here.
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Grace
a prayer of mine since childhood
a sincere prayer asked not only for myself but for all humanity
it is so needed
and you have described this precious gift perfectly
good intentions bring grace
exceptional gorgeous write my friend
Thank you much for your lovely addition to the contest
God bless you...
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