Simon the Cat said:
- in fact most fo them don't follow the Bible at all and look we've managed to last this long...If most of the world is not ascribing to the Biblical standard what does that mean for humanity?
Simon the C......the common thread that runs through all of humanity's different cultures is the thread of "desire", for worshipping a higher being. Whereas this thread is taken for granted; one must wonder why would any sane human want to worship some resemblance of a wooden deity with such devotion and complete trust. The ancient Greeks worshipped Appolo and Diana, building magnificent edifices to their eternal memory. In fact much of the religious thought of our time was spawned by the folklore of mythical gods chasing each other across the heavens, as their earthly devotees concoct theories of how to please and understand the gods of their own creation.
But where did this desire originate? This all consuming desire to worship any deity of any stripe? Why do we have to so trust this deity that we must read His bible; or else?
For me it begins at the beginning. We humans all have the same common ancestry--unlike the lower animals that vary in form; from "no legs" and "or arms" to those with "multiple legs" and "arms"; animals who are unable to procreate except within their own individual species-- we humans unlike these lower animals can procreate with any member of the human species no matter his race or culture. And yet despite the fact of this variance, we humans are yet unalterably linked to both the animals "with and without legs or arms", by the "common DNA".
Even the inanimate trees, are by the same "common DNA" undeniably linked to all animals both higher and lower alike.
At this beginning is the Creator who not only said that He created us but that He created "Us" and "all things". "Us" He says that He created for His glory; and that He also created us to worship Him. This may account for the inate desire to worship, on the part of humanity no matter his culture. While the rest of nature he created for us humans to rule over.
Whether you believe this to be true or not; yet one is hard-pressed to explain how defenceless humans could control animals more powerful than the humans that control them, if God did not in fact make humans defacto rulers over lions and tigers, bears and rattlesnakes.
Given therefore that God implanted in us the desire to worship....and also given that He made for us a "Garden" with flowers, fruit trees, and animals of all sort to tend; then we must also accept that he would also have left us instructions as to how we must conduct ourselves with each other; as well as to how we ought to worship Him. This is the subject of the Genesis story; that is; if you believe that the common and same DNA found in all living things didn't come to be; purely by chance.
If then you accept the Genesis story; you are automatically resigned to also accept the Story of Abraham; and if you do, you are also accepting that God was dissatisfied with the majority of the humans that He had created in how they aportioned the worship desire He had implanted in them. Because of this dissatisfaction, He had previously anhilated a whole civilization by means of a flood, and now again registering His dissapointment in the surviving humans in their not worshipping Him, He had singled out Abraham as the only one who chose to worship Him among the thousands of humans living in and around where Abraham lived.
This fact alone proves that God had left instructions on how to worship Him or else Abraham would not have known how.
Whether Abraham knew or not; did not prevent God from again dictating to Moses and Abraham's descendants the "how to worship Him" commandments; making those who refuse, to pay heavily as the people who lived at the time of the flood.
Interpreting the script "how to worship Him" is the root cause of the perfusion of religions who all try to lay claim to being on the inside of the "knowing how to worship God".
But yet again; if they do not start at the beginning; they would not discover the "How to worship God" anymore than they were also unable to discover the common DNA that God used to make all living things....Or the simple fact of the craving desire to worship as created in them by God.
No Simon; this is not about Mohammed or any visionary, who has taken this "craving desire to worship" and made it into his "own image" complete with his own following-his own religion. This rather is about those who see their Creator God influencing them towards worshipping Him; totally and apart from those human visionaries who would seek to usurp God's perogatives, appropriating to themselves that desired by God. And because for these reasons of misappropriations God destroyed humans in the past; He will again; for these said reasons destroy humans in the present.
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