The ideological bubble is a coward’s way of not having to think about things. It may seem like a “stern holding to . . . faith”, but it’s a retreat into an artificial fortress.
Something that Martin Luther once said seems fitting here: however big anything may be, God is bigger; however small anything might be, God is smaller; however high anything might be, God is higher; however low anything might be, God is lower; however far anything might be, God is farther; however near anything might be, God is nearer. And I will add that He is also everywhere in between.
This helped me in one of my darkest periods, in this form: however deep you think you’ve fallen, God is deeper.
Okay. Thank you for the help. I’ve gone through a lot of anxiety and changing mindset to be here, but I think I need to try and push beyond that to get over my fears.
I wasn’t necessarily calling science a threat so much as saying people who I hold in high esteem to represent it may true to influence my thoughts. Or at least that is what many apologetics organizations say. I think for many of my issues I need to go back to the drawing board to see what is more dogmatic against other faiths and what is actual attempts to help see faith in a different light.
Don’t look at those fears, though – acknowledge them, because they’re real, but deliver them to Jesus because He paid for them. No, I don’t mean that fears are sin, I mean that anything that gets in between us and God is something Jesus paid for – the Cross was about sin, but not just sin, it was about fixing everything.
And if you’re really daring, learn to thank Him for them: each one is an invitation to turn to Him.