Skeptical?

 

As human beings we continuously struggle with dual opinions when it comes to believing things, our actions and even in deliberations. Our mind is constantly in the process of validating things. We tend to accept and reject matters based on our rights and personal preferences most of the time. One of the reasons for the doubts to surface is because the counterfeit looks so original that people are misled to believe the counterfeits; so the wrong becomes right and the right is carefully hidden. Being deceived they live with constant doubts and are skeptical of things. Overtime they refuse to accept the full truth.  Michael P.V. Barrett in his article emphasis this dichotomy and says, "Everything seems upside down. Evil is considered good; good is considered evil. Truth has fallen in the streets and is trampled by academic processions, political machinery, and populous parades.".

The Bible says, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways”. It all starts with the mind as it keeps oscillating and doubting between facts and myths because they believe in their version of truth alone. How do we validate the point of reference?

This is a powerful excerpt from G.K Chesterton, “But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore, he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. . . . As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. . . . The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics, he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics, he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore, the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”

Do you notice the contradictions? When the soul is obscured with sin and self-developed moral values, people seem to live in constant contradictions. It is written in the Bible therefore, “it is not good for a soul to be without knowledge.”. Soul connects with a true God not by itself but by people who honestly are open to finding a true living God. Jesus is a resurrected God, which gives the ultimate credibility to know Him and trust Him. He requires no structure nor a place for abode, but promised to live in human hearts provided he/she has kept the place holy and clean. He not only forgives our sins and transforms us but sanctifies our perspective and helps us to lead a non-contradictory life.

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