Why would a child want to BE their mother again?
Is that the same as wanting to never have been born?
Why would anyone want that?
Is wanting to BE God, also like wanting to have never been an individual FROM God?
How is that “rebellion”?
Isn’t that almost like a display of too much devotion to the Creator?
If God created you and you wanted to become God, then this would mean you want to become equal to or better then what made you.
This means you have a passion for progress and growth.
Wanting to give everything you have to God, is the same as children living for and their parents and giving all of their time and energy back to their parents [instead of living, growing and becoming something new]. Most parents don’t want their kids to do this, though, and they would rather die for their kids then have their kids die for them. Parents would protect and impower their children all that they could…
“God”, on the other hand, isn’t there – and the bible claims don’t add up!
Did the confederates want to BE the union?
Or be LIKE the union?
Its unnerving to see people continually subject religion to reason and practicality. Does God Existence? Define God. Define Existence. Define Contradiction.
You come to know God through an intrinsic, subjective ‘leap of faith’ in which you cannot express, due to the natural limitations of our reasoning.
‘Indirect Communication’ - Mr. Kierkegaard calls it.
Screw that. If religion doesn’t make sense, it’s no good.
On the contrary, religion is the recipe you use when no sense is needed anymore. Does the resurrection make any sense ? Probably not, especially from a scientifical point of view. But it does seem to act as one of the best ailments the market currently has to offer, notwithstanding all the scandals it produced.
It’s all about marketing, baby…
lol. that’s not good… it’s just sufficient.
pxc, I love you.
Hello F(r)iends,
Was god too lenient?
What would you do if your child opposed you?
-Thirst
Depends on if they opposed me in a threatening way. If they opposed me but they could live the lifestyle they wanted away from me, I’d be O.K. with it.
If my child opposed me, and I was all-wise/all-mighty,
I would change my method and find a way to help this person grow in the right direction, despite his/her will to resist.
But children have natural love for their parents, it’s inborn. Mostly people on earth DO NOT hate and oppose their parents. A person’s parents – also are not perfect, or all-wise, so imagine how much easier it would be to get along with God?
But if God isn’t even there – it explains why we don’t get all of this intimate and capable, positive interaction.
Was Satan stupid?
As I recall, the serpent was the wisest of all creatures.
The general idea in the bible is if you don’t do things God’s way then your doomed and evil.
Most cautious, not most wise, was the wording in Genesis.
Did Satan have free-will, he must have surely to go against God right? But I thought angels didn’t ahve free-will, i thought only we did? And if God made Satan with free will, why? Why just him? And if not, it’s God’s fault because Satan was determined to turn on God.
To be fair in the story of the bible, and i do enjoy it as a story, I see Satan as rather the hero or liberator, saving Man from blind obedience. He shows us the tree of knowledge and we accept mortality in exchange for knowledge, a choice I’d make again. It’s a good story. Also Satan seems really romantic, you CANT BEAT GOD, you just CANT, but he tries anyway… thats quite beautiful in my eyes.