19 Nov 2023

A fruit salad of religious thoughts

Today I am on an excursion into the labyrinths of religious conventional wisdom, trying to set the record straight. We have wandered too far away from the evident truths of the Bible, even changed it to suit our delusional concept of God and translated it so many times - almost into oblivion, so that it can mean anything for anyone.

I myself grew up in one such a delusional periods called Calvanism, in which God was portrayed as a policeman, watching our every step, transgression, omission, error and sin, keeping notes of it to mete out the most gruesome punishment imaginable which He would visit upon us at Judgement Day.
In this I am also reminded of a much earlier era in the nineteenth century which was quite the opposite. One in which God was regarded as dead. We should be aware of the words of Nietzche at the time:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
And yet, the real truth about God is so benign, lovingly and human, that we may have no fear to embrace Him fully with all of our hearts and souls.
God is love and life. Which part of this do we not understand. He is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.
Is there a Satan? For sure there is, but we adjudicate the origin of our tears and grief to God in stead of to Satan.
Is Satan omnipresent. No, not at all. He can only be at one place at a time. His abode was as an archangel in heaven, thereafter a lonely figure climbing the Mountain of God with arrogance, rebellion and power happy, because of his unethical lucrative business  enterprises with the kingdoms of this earth. He was subdequently thrown from the Mountain of God onto earth where he infiltrated paradise Eden to sow discord in the lives of Adam and Eve, and us all for as long as he can.
The next thing we should know is that only God is a Creator in the sense of creating physical and meta- physical things. These things are the building blocks on which we create things, not as original works, but as variations on God's creative flair. In fact, variations on a theme is the crux of creativity for us. We have never created any original thing. We have only emulated God.
Satan will never emulate God. He will only destroy, slander and delude. That is all he can and will do. There is no creativity involved in that. It is only death and destruction which he advocates.
We as humans are creative, loving, forgiving and kind, as we were made in the image of God. Satan can bever be that, because he was not made in the image of God. He can only destroy and break down. We may in fact classify or label him as a terrorist.
God loves our communion and companionship. He loves to converse with us and to be friends with us.
Satan cannot love anybody and has no friends. In fact, he has only enemies, and his workers are all rebels against God and slaves. A third of all angels became rebels through coercion by Satan.
We do not want to go there. There is no life in death, as the wages of sin is death, a wage we cannot live on.
Why do we suffer?
How otherwise can we become inheritors of the love and kindness of God? It does not come as an inheritance or present. Jesus Christ himself learned obedience from the things he suffered. God is too kind and loving and cannot judge the world, therefore he has given judgement at the end of times to us. How can we judge fairly if we have not learned the love and kindness of God through suffering. I, for one, will suffer gladly to judge mercifully.





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