razzelflabben
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now this is an awesome question, I'm teaching my son to read at the moment, let me get back to it in a few......Actually, there are a couple of reasons, they are connected, but different so let me see if I can explain....God isn't about fixing all our problems, or being appeased, or even playing great big Santa Claus in the sky as many people think...(just for clarity, I can only speak for the diety of God not all deties and I can only speak from what the bible tells us about that God) God is about restoring us (man) to our original creation, that is a creation of innocence. This happens through our turning from our evil ways and to the ways of God, the way of Love...We can talk more about that if you want....God's intervening with man on this earth is now primarily (with a few exceptions but only a few) one of an inward working. It is the Holy Spirit (aka God) living in and working in man that changes our world, reduces the evil of man. When God is not working in man, that change doesn't happen and evil reigns....which leads us into the second reason, there is a song by a group called Downhere, the line I point you to says, "the problem with the world is me..." basically what it is saying is that each and everyone of us can make a difference in our world...when we live in our evil desires, evil reigns, when we live in the Love desires of God, Love reigns...So what need do we have for Deities? Since it all boils down to the evil of man while God does not intervene?
So to summarize and this is the simple version, we can exand as necessary, we should come to God, need God to restore us to our purpose: Love and to better our world around us, to show our world that there is a better way, the way of Love
I thought I was directly dealing with each of the questions you asked, where did I fail?The problem here is that we are adhering to a God invented by Bronze age goat herders complete with the morals of the time. Humanity has evolved its moral standards and religion is only a hindrance in this case.
I am sorry but you have failed to address my questions with direct answers. You seem to be avoiding the core of the subject and have totally avoided giving blame where blame is due.
Have a nice day
As to the question about about morals, God isn't about morals, He is about Love, putting others above ourselves....If God was about morals you might have a point, though I would argue that our present moral are only better by our own standard, in other words morals are relative depending on the time and culture you live in, even what we are taught affects our morals, they are not an absolute...Love can be and is if defined by the details of the bible, an absolute that can be measured and tested.
So I'm really curious now, what core issue am I missing...? I totally love hard questions and the search to find the answers, in fact, I sometimes think that if I couldn't ask the hard questions and seek out the answers I would cease to exist, that is how much I love them, so to accuse me of missing the core issue, to accuse me of avoidance really stirs me very deeply....I want nothing more than to explore the tough things, the things that others run from....so please...what am I missing?
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