Showing posts with label RELIGION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RELIGION. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

憑誰意行(一)

正在看梁家麟的《憑誰意行》(基道出版),完成了差不多二分一的內容,很想在此分享一下。
文章開首主力討論普遍基督徒對詮譯何謂「神的旨意」的一些謬誤,例如以結果的好壞判斷那件事是否出於神的心意。他舉了一例:教會中有姊妹失戀了,有人馬上查問關係開始時有否祈禱求問神的心意,姊妹的答案當然是「沒有」,於是那人便定論這段感情因「不合神的心意」才至告終。

梁指出這樣看神的心意造成了沒完沒了的「循環論證」,我們永遠不能確定神的旨意,直到事情的結果出現以後。正如只有直到一對新人離婚後,我們始知道這段關係「不合神意」,這樣的邏輯背後同時有一假設,就是神的旨意只包括「天色常藍」,而不包括任何使人不悅的結果,這樣果真是神的心意嗎?

另外,這亦反映了許多基督徒以「命定主義」的角度理解神的旨意,相信神給每個人的人生都只有唯一一條合法合意的出路,一旦做錯了任何一個決定,都會召致惡果。作者反問:這樣的人生還算自由嗎?若然神給人的選擇只有一個,那我們的人生不正正變成了一場最大的賭博?然而梁指出:儘管理念上我們相信神預定一切,但從生活經驗裡頭,我們是無法得知何為神的安排,所以抉擇與自由本身仍是真實的,神可以在永恆裡預定我今晚會吃些什麼,但卻無礙我抉定到哪一間餐廳用膳。

「基督徒可以相信上帝的預定,卻要在生活裡拒絕機械式的命定主義。」怍者抱持的人生觀是積極的,也不希望基督徒以此作為逃避個人責任的藉口。(待續)

Saturday, November 29, 2008

An Evening with Nick Vujicic


Well for sure it's been a much anticipated event of the month. His story has been around for few years already and i finally got the chance to meet him outside YouTube. What a loss that we couldn't hug him one by one as scheduled. His Hong Kong tour was just a bit too packed. Guess the organizer was making full use of the cost they spent on the event. But judging from Nick's sunshine smile all along, I think he felt complete in this trip. He definitely would not forget this brilliant translator of the night who even made sense of his every single body language which in turn added extra colours to such a formulated seminar. Just not to mention how many times tears had welled up in my eyes, Nick's speech was gorgeous. I've listened to the same content at least more than once online, but the live impact was not at all diminished. He's a true miracle and he creates miracles in others' life. Wish him all the best on the Mainland tour!