I have the mind of an atheist, but Jesus lives in my heart. =]

I do understand the concept of not believing in anything; I understand that the idea of a ‘Creator’ may not be the most logical, scientific approach to the world. I understand that science just may be able to answer all the questions of the world better than ‘God’ can. I understand that religion is riddled with more questions than answers. If I didn’t have a heart for Jesus, I might be able to convince myself that we exist merely to exist.

What is the meaning of life? The age old question never dies. How can it ever be truly answered if ‘truth’ is relative and our ‘reality’ is ‘truth’…to us….

Have you ever stated the absolute truth only be to made into a liar? You know the ones: I’ll love you forever. You’ll always be mine. I never want to be with anyone else….

You mean it in the moment. In the moment, no truer words have ever been said. Then the moment passes. It fades, it’s forgotten, and is only remembered when it turns into a lie.

But you are not a liar; in that moment, the truth you knew affected the truth you spoke. That truth was your reality.

So how can we ever answer what the meaning of life is without having absolute truth?

What if the meaning of life is to find a better way to live? To go back to loving our neighbor, helping a friend in need, and genuinely caring about the welfare of others? What if the meaning of life is to get back to the root of God’s message: Love. Forgiveness. Kindness. Mercy. Honor. What if God wants us to realize that knowing the truth should not make us shameful?

When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the Bible says they realized they were naked and went to hide their bodies. Yet, prior to eating the fruit, they were still naked, they just didn’t ‘realize’ it…Much like when we are babies and young children, we will run around freely without a care in the world. We don’t think about what others think of us running around in our birthday suits because our spectrum of ‘truth’ and ‘reality’ does not encompass the realization that we are naked and nakedness is wrong.

Wait. Why?

How did we come to the conclusion that nakedness is wrong? Because Adam and Eve ate some fruit that gave them knowledge of right and wrong and since they hid themselves, nakedness is wrong. Ok. Got it!

But…they were living in the Garden of Good and Evil with no troubles as naked as a newborn…then they get this ‘realization’ that comes from eating this fruit and all of a sudden, it is wrong…

I would much prefer to think that the message here is once we incorporate our own truths and ideas of reality, we mess up the purity of God. There is nothing wrong with nakedness; the body is a beautiful thing to behold. What is wrong is going against God. All He asked was not to eat of a certain tree. How hard was that? But we disobeyed and look where it lead…

I know. I know. I KNOW! You believe it’s just a nice story…. I can see that. I get that. I just can’t seem to deny my heart…I cannot deny Christ.