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I’m not really sure what was meant by reconciling my faith with AS, though maybe that’s just because I never say a need to. I’ve been saved more than 10 years by now, and my faith was already pretty well-established by the time I even knew what AS was. After learning about it and getting a dx, I never really felt the need to question much of anything: to me, this was just the way it was, I guess. I had a lot of other things to get over, like why in the world I even had it, what I was supposed to do with it, and how would I ever be a nice person again, but I finally just had to realize that God has a purpose in everything he does. One of my new favorite passages is in 1 Cor 12; in that passage, Paul is talking about the body of Christ, and says that we’re all an important part of it and that God made no mistakes in putting it together. Like he says, we can’t all be eyes, because then the body wouldn’t be able to hear anything. So, the eye can’t sit there and say that the ear isn’t a part of the body just because it’s an ear, and the feet can’t complain about not being a part of the body just because they’re feet, since of course that would be ridiculous. I think that was how I finally accepted the whole AS thing, actually; there was just so much in that passage that applied to the whole situation. God didn’t make a mistake with what bodypart he made me into, and knows exactly why I’m where I am. Other people can’t honestly come up and say I’m not really a part of the ‘body’ just because they don’t see me doing anything or because of who I am, because I’m as much a part of the body as they are and would thus be a bit ridiculous to say. And of course, I shouldn’t feel like I’m not a part of the body because God’s Word has already assured me that I’m very much a part of it.

On the other hand, if you’re wondering about our supposed analytical thought processes (which I very much have, whether I like it or not…), and how we can still depend so much on faith… well, I’m not quite sure how that works, but apparently it does. To me, I guess Christianity just makes too much sense to believe otherwise. Sure, I admit I’ve randomly wondered on occasion what would happen if the Bible weren’t entirely true, since I have noticed already how many basics of Christianity depend on the Bible’s reliability. Still, in a way, I guess it comes down to the realization that I’m going to have to depend on faith to some extent or other no matter what I choose to believe, and when the Bible’s interpreted correctly, it just matches real life far too much for me not to believe it.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 2:24 pm and is filed under Autism Stories.