Lindsey Renoll
Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture page 173-255
“Essential to the Christian faith, of course, is the belief
that God has intervened in the past, and implicit is the idea that he may
intervene again” (Turner, 173). This
quote really stuck with me, because I have a lot of religious friends and it is
not uncommon that they found their faith because of some drastic change in
their life. My one friend suffered from depression and during that low time she
was introduced to Christianity. She says that she used her faith to motivate
her to get help and push on, and she knows her god works in mysterious ways. So
if he could help her get out of that low point, he will help her if something
like that ever happened again. It’s interesting that a religion is sometimes
based on the idea that their god works in mysterious ways, and just because he
has intervened in the past, he might possibly also intervene in the future. I
can imagine that this would happen because the idea of having your god save you
when you are going through something hard is comforting to someone who is
struggling in the first place.
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