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April 8, 2015 - March 3, 2021
When You Told Me …
When you told me years ago were billions, not thousands, that I was here by chance, not by design I considered your words and truly pondered Questioned if your beginning had more truth than mine if eternal, self-existent matter were more plausible than an eternal, self-existent God But no matter how I tried, and still try, I am unable to exchange Reality for nothing
When you told me He was not God but a just good man, that He was merely prophet, not The Saviour I considered your words and truly pondered Questioned if your salvation had more truth than mine if forgiveness by sacrifice were less reasonable than the glory of self-achievement But no matter how I tried, and still try, I am unable to exchange Salvation for futility
When you told me the Bible isn’t as we read it, that the transcribers often missed their mark I considered your words and truly pondered Questioned if your reading had more truth than mine if the words handed down were less to be trusted than the rewordings of invention But no matter how I tried, and still try, I am unable to exchange Comfort for confusion
When you told me sin is not as we have been taught, that what is thought a wrong is but misunderstood I considered your words and truly pondered Questioned if your gospel held more truth than mine if love for His way were less to be valued than making welcome the unchanged But no matter how I tried, and still try, I am unable to exchange Righteousness for corruption
When you told me today is all that will ever be, that all we are ends at a tear stained hole I considered your words and truly pondered Questioned if your ending had more truth than mine, if the dust we tread underfoot would be our final home rather than God’s endless golden realm But no matter how I tried, and still try, I am unable to exchange Life for death
When you told me all roads lead to the same destination that the God I worship is the one you don’t I considered your words and truly pondered Questioned if your idea of god had more truth than mine if these many roads and their diversity of rules were more reasonable than the narrow path But no matter how I tried, and still try, I am unable to exchange Truth for a lie
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When you told me that faith is blind that it must yield to reason’s sight I wondered how you saw them different questioned whether you are sane or mad For reason must rest on faith in Truth our thought but builds on that which is And I am unable to comprehend why you would give up Hope for despair!
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When You Told Me A poem by Peter Rhebergen Download the book Each New Day a Miracle Bible Studies How to Study the Bible Life is Wonderful Photography Copyright 2024 About me |
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