Do you believe there is a battle between the forces of good and evil?
Do you believe that human beings are basically good?
Do you believe in the Devil?
If you answer yes to these questions then chances are you believe in God.
If you believe in God, the creator of everything, the most powerful force in existence, then you have to question his competency.
Why?
Because he has lost control. He is no longer in charge of things. His will has been defied by one of his subjects. He is in a struggle to capture the heart of mankind, his creation and yet his creation is out of control. The only power he has left is to destroy. He can make conditions, make covenants, make threats of eternal damnation.
Now to me being powerful and being All Powerful are two different things.
A God who isn't in complete control seems to be a God who doesn't have absolute power.
I'm not impressed.
In Greek mythology, the Gods interfere in human affairs for their own amusement. There are multiple Gods, anthropomorphic with human like emotions, sexually active but immortal.
This isn't so far removed from the Christian God we are expected to believe in, with his nemesis the Devil working against God, seeming to have equal powers to God. Interfering in human affairs.
So, getting back to the idea of good versus evil.
God represents good and the devil represents evil.
God does all the plagues, mass killings and diseases and so forth and he is good?
On the other hand the devil is interested in sex and all it's permutations. Therefore sex is bad.
Are you all following me here?
Ok, here are a few more aspects to consider, God gives mankind intelligence and the power to reason, but tells him don't use it. Any attempt to contemplate God on a rational level and question God is the work of the devil.
God gives us sex so that we may reproduce ourselves and then we are told it is dirty, evil, bad.
God makes beautiful things and puts beauty into the shape of a woman and we are told this is bad, cover her up.
God gives mankind the four fingered hand and thumb, something no other animal has and this coupled with intelligence that no other animal has. Man is capable of invention and creativity and we are told this is bad. Science is bad, technology is bad. Ideally we should have remained in the stone age to please God.
Ok enough because I want to throw up.
I don't stomach this garbage about good versus evil.
I can give you a history of how man invented and elaborated on the idea of the Devil but that's another story and subject for another blog.
3 comments:
Do I dear to come with this suggestion:
We live in the time where the dividing of the dimentions of postivie and negative forces take place.
It is two ways to make the dividing;
1) To take the negative away from the positive. Then we would have experienced the world to become more and more pleasant to live in, because most of the negative forces gets pushed into another dimention.
2)To take the positive away from the negative. Then we will experience that the world becomes more and more destructive and violent to live in, because the positive forces get pushed into another dimention.
So, the way you experience the major part of the world / life you live in, tells you where you are going or on which side of the dimentional "wall" you are.
Those in "Hell" will no longer see the beauty of "Garden of Eden" ...
Those who are slowly moved into "garden of Eden" will no longer experience all the aspects of Negative forces and power.
(Geezz ... I think I have ended up in "Hell".)
Kirsten, I understand what you are trying to tell me is about life experience that has both good and bad elements. Yes we all have had bad experiences and I can tell you horror stories and bad luck that has plagued my life. We all try to make the best of the situation we have. Of course, my blog makes the point that I don't subscribe to the idea of good versus evil. We as individuals have the capacity for both and each of us chooses which actions we take. There are no supernatural forces tempting us with evil or directing us toward good acts.
Believing in nothing and having no hope is a hopelessly nothing existence.
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