(Poster Response to another query in Religious Debates.)
Actually, I love the Psalms, they’re songs you know. Songs are often sad and depressing, but then, so is life! Why is it no one wants to discuss the all too obvious – Blanks? I have so many questions and literally no where to turn, except back to the same text that caused my unrest in the first place.
Most of my questions are for GOD, and they all begin with – Why? I ask myself that if I had created the universe/ the earth why would I knowing it would turn our so corrupt? Was GOD not happy in heaven? Is Heaven not perfect? Why does God need us/what us? What is the purpose for all this suffering? What is the purpose for trial and error, and choices – beyond the obvious?
Did God create us because He was lonely?
Who didn’t explain "The Tree of Life" well enough, God or Adam? And why, after Adam and Eve sinned didn’t God just destroy them right then and start all over - rather than letting them run-a-much in the Earth, creating people who couldn’t or wouldn’t control themselves? I mean, what’s it all for? I mean, if my creator told me that if I ate a certain fruit I would no longer be in his favor and I would suffer living hell from that day forward, I hope I would have sense enough not to eat that fruit. And if I didn’t understand the consequences of my actions – whose fault is that? What basis in fundamental information would I have been working from – kindergarten! So because they were innocent – we are damned to suffer? Well, that makes sense. But if God is all knowing, why didn’t He know things would turn out this way? And if He did know – then why bother? See, I’m right back to my first question – why?
Maybe all this is a just a big mistake. Maybe GOD wished HE could take it all back, but HE can’t. Maybe even GOD can’t stop something - once it’s set in motion – it just has to play out. Maybe that’s why HE gave us a way out – Jesus! And, maybe everything mankind has gone through, is going through and will go through – is just part of the play set in motion. And, maybe the reason GOD knows how it’s gonna end - is because HE’s all ready played it out (in HIS mind) HE sees it, saw it – whatever, and that’s how Revelation came to be? Man this is deep!
You know I’m beginning to feel somewhat better – realizing I’m (we’re) not just pawns, we’re in the middle of something Cosmic that’s just got to run it’s course, play out. God’s in the middle of it too! We’re all just playing the hands we were dealt!
You know I did read something in Genesis that touched on this very thing – that GOD realized (in essence) that HE’d made a mistake – that’s why HE sent the flood! So, OK, GOD isn’t perfect – who is? Jesus! But only after HE became flesh. WOW!
So, if GOD just IS – and HE is the beginning of all things – then HE wouldn’t have known how unworthy we were of HIS creation – HIS GIFT of life. Maybe HE thought that souls of HIS soul would be worthy, because HIS creation/satan was not? I’m beginning to feel really sorry for GOD! We, mankind, are every parent’s worst nightmare – only our parent is GOD! GEEEZZZZZ!
Actually, I love the Psalms, they’re songs you know. Songs are often sad and depressing, but then, so is life! Why is it no one wants to discuss the all too obvious – Blanks? I have so many questions and literally no where to turn, except back to the same text that caused my unrest in the first place.
Most of my questions are for GOD, and they all begin with – Why? I ask myself that if I had created the universe/ the earth why would I knowing it would turn our so corrupt? Was GOD not happy in heaven? Is Heaven not perfect? Why does God need us/what us? What is the purpose for all this suffering? What is the purpose for trial and error, and choices – beyond the obvious?
Did God create us because He was lonely?
Who didn’t explain "The Tree of Life" well enough, God or Adam? And why, after Adam and Eve sinned didn’t God just destroy them right then and start all over - rather than letting them run-a-much in the Earth, creating people who couldn’t or wouldn’t control themselves? I mean, what’s it all for? I mean, if my creator told me that if I ate a certain fruit I would no longer be in his favor and I would suffer living hell from that day forward, I hope I would have sense enough not to eat that fruit. And if I didn’t understand the consequences of my actions – whose fault is that? What basis in fundamental information would I have been working from – kindergarten! So because they were innocent – we are damned to suffer? Well, that makes sense. But if God is all knowing, why didn’t He know things would turn out this way? And if He did know – then why bother? See, I’m right back to my first question – why?
Maybe all this is a just a big mistake. Maybe GOD wished HE could take it all back, but HE can’t. Maybe even GOD can’t stop something - once it’s set in motion – it just has to play out. Maybe that’s why HE gave us a way out – Jesus! And, maybe everything mankind has gone through, is going through and will go through – is just part of the play set in motion. And, maybe the reason GOD knows how it’s gonna end - is because HE’s all ready played it out (in HIS mind) HE sees it, saw it – whatever, and that’s how Revelation came to be? Man this is deep!
You know I’m beginning to feel somewhat better – realizing I’m (we’re) not just pawns, we’re in the middle of something Cosmic that’s just got to run it’s course, play out. God’s in the middle of it too! We’re all just playing the hands we were dealt!
You know I did read something in Genesis that touched on this very thing – that GOD realized (in essence) that HE’d made a mistake – that’s why HE sent the flood! So, OK, GOD isn’t perfect – who is? Jesus! But only after HE became flesh. WOW!
So, if GOD just IS – and HE is the beginning of all things – then HE wouldn’t have known how unworthy we were of HIS creation – HIS GIFT of life. Maybe HE thought that souls of HIS soul would be worthy, because HIS creation/satan was not? I’m beginning to feel really sorry for GOD! We, mankind, are every parent’s worst nightmare – only our parent is GOD! GEEEZZZZZ!