Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science by Mike McHargue

Author:Mike McHargue [McHargue, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781101906040
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2016-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

Many of us can relate to this paradoxical experience.

Have you ever prayed fervently while simultaneously wondering if anyone was hearing that prayer?

Have you offered someone comfort in faith, while wondering if you believed anything you were saying?

For all its bizarreness, the phenomenon of split-brain patients gives me strange comfort. Suddenly, I don’t feel so weird for identifying with both skeptical and spiritual people.

There is an atheist in my brain who remains wholly incredulous about the idea of a divine being who once dwelt among us in the form of a man.

There is a Christian in my brain who is indescribably and enduringly comforted by the idea and love of a supernatural Savior.

I’ve stopped trying to deny, starve, or otherwise do away with either of them.

I let my atheist question and examine. I let him check my motives and search for ideas that can be proven. Atheist Mike contemplates ethical issues from all angles, where right and wrong emerge not from ancient texts, but from the relation between our actions and the suffering or consent of others.

Christian Mike views the world through a lens of great compassion, seeing pieces of God in all His creations. My Christian side suffers with those in pain and finds reason for hope in everyone. Against all reason, Christian Mike believes it’s never too late for redemption and that salvation is always at hand.

Christian Mike wants to drop his fishing net and follow Jesus. So I let him.

And Atheist Mike tags along for the ride.

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