I am having an existential crisis.
Theologically, I believe that God is sovereign, yet equips us with a free will, made in his own image. I believe that I have a soul that will live when my body dies and the two are necessarily separate. I believe Christianity is the only way to heaven. It is the design of God and his plan from the beginning.
Philosophically, I believe that every action has a cause, and with it, every cause has a cause. I am inherently deterministic. Everything has a reason established in its mechanics. Not totally a materialist, I understand the world as necessarily logical and building upon itself. I am a monist. I believe we are one psychosomatic unit. I do not think we are divided in two for God did not make Adam's body and then his soul, but he made Adam (for even my philosophy is theocentric). Philosophically, I am Hegelian. I believe the world is full of theses that will confront antitheses and the two will merge. We are but two choices in option at any time, and one will win out, but will not be the end for another alternative will arise. I believe that to my philosophical core.
So what then? Do I embrace my philosophical side and affirm things that then put my theology — and with it God's attributes – into question? Or do I accept my theology, claim it to be a divine mystery, and wallow in the sadness of my mysticism which fails to see faith as a part of reality?
In the end, I make no choices and instead make a joke only philosophical theology majors understand:
What happens when everything you believe theologically contradicts with everything you believe philosophically?
Answer: You become a trichotomist.
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