Dear, Dr. Peterson

Dear,
Dr. Peterson

Yes, belief in God in very difficult. Christ said, "If you had even a grain of faith the size of this mustard seed, you could make the mountain move." Who has ever had even a grain of faith?

It is because we don't, that is why we need Jesus. Even if I've healed the blind, the deaf, the demon possessed, the lame, the sick, the hungry.; even if I've prophesied the world's end, and knew without a doubt. Still, that little tiny grain of faith is nearly impossible to obtain. Because men are not perfect.

Christ did not come to the world as a teacher of ethics. There were many teachers before Him. There was the Old Testament. There were many people---though scattered abroad to the four corners of the universe---there was some grasp of God's word in every culture that ever existed. Christ did not come to teach us morals. He came to redeem us from the penalty of not obeying them.

By Christ's moral purity, we know Him to be God Come in the Flesh. Yet, even we doubt---all Christians---when faced with certain suppositions. What makes me doubt, is of course, the concepts of science fiction. Yet, I have to retain my faith in spite of it, for there is one truth. I am not perfect. I need Christ as a crutch to help me in this world, and I need him as a purifier to get to the next.

For, if I by my own deeds thought I could attain to eternal life---as you noted---there would be no possibility of me attaining that life. For, without Christ---since His law is self evident and written on our heart---we would have no hope of ever attaining to eternal life, or fellowship with the Father.

For, every sage in history has attained to similar moral understanding, with many follies. Yet, Christ died and raised to redeem us from our folly. For without Him we should be without hope because of the great separation of our sin. Satan had tried to hinder this, yet I prevailed.