What do you base your faith on? Why do you even have the faith? For most of the weak men in the church, the answer is, “because my parents taught me what to believe”. Last I checked, faith is an individual matter. It doesn’t care who your parents and grandparents were because every faith must be unique to the individual. If you base your faith on other people, your parents, significant other or Church members, then you have a pathetic faith. You should not have faith because of other people, it should be because of and for yourself. Human beings are a weak foundation to build anything on, much less a religious faith; every thinker since Machiavelli has known that.
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock, And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Matthew 7:24-27
“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Your foundation is built on yourself, and it is only as strong as your intrinsic motivation.
If you still rely on mommy and daddy for answers, you have a problem. The beta does these things, as does the Demominationalist; ask anyone from a denomination about a specific passage and they “have to ask their pastor”, because they are incapable of using their own minds and thinking for themselves. We have minds for the sole purpose of using them to make good decisions. We have minds with which we may build the faith.
The modern man in the Church is a disgrace. He sings about having a “Firm Foundation”, yet he has already built his house on the sand. He already cares too much about the world to have a strong faith. In his mind he knows he is only doing the minimum amount necessary to get by and hopes that God will let him slip on into heaven after life is done. Our foundation is our own, and we must build it ourselves. We must constantly build it every day or we will die. Lay the foundation of your faith in your own mind.
Mantra
My faith is my own. To mindlessly accept the knowledge of others is for the weak.
Application
Starting today, when you question the faith, don’t go to the internet or to some other Christian for answers, try to answer it yourself with your own mind. There is nothing wrong with getting help from others, however most people ask for help for the purpose of simply accepting whatever answer they get so they don’t have to do the difficult work of thinking. Mental laziness is the great evil we are trying to avoid. We must think through the faith on our own. Until we get to a point mentally where we always question what others say and write, then we should rely on ourselves for answers. We have to use our own minds. Don’t just accept what I write to you, think about it, because I could be dead wrong and you won’t know unless you think for yourself.
Conduct yourselves like Men.
