You got me thinking theology this morning, so I'm going to lay it all out for you. This is the only analysis of Christianity that makes sense to me...
The creator of this physical world is Satan, and his power is an emulation of God's. It's pretty good but not entirely real because the divine spark of true creation always come from God Himself.
We are partially the creation of Satan's physical world (our bodies) while also being God's children through the divine spark within all of us. This divine spark is often called "soul".
This physical world is kind of like a science experiment. It's Satan's attempt to "out-god God". He wanted to make a perfectly balanced, perfectly consistent, self-sustaining creation. And this world is perfectly balanced. Good equals bad in all things. For example, if you feed a puppy and watch it grow, other animals will need to die in order to provide meat to feed it. If you fall in love with someone, one day either you or your loved one will die, resulting in sorrow. Every birth results in death.
Keeping all this in mind, we can answer why God does not intervene. And the answer is free will. Satan, as a divine being, has the gift of free will from God, just as Man -- a partially divine being -- also has free will.
God cannot intervene with our affairs because He would then be stepping into the science experiment that Satan has set up. And if He took away that free will from Satan, God would be denying the nature of his own creation.
But how could God leave us to suffer, you may ask? God has not left us abandoned. We also have free will, thus God can only show us the way. He cannot force us into it. God speaks to us constantly if we listen, and He even sent Christ to be a little more obvious about the message.
Because we are an inherent part of Satan's experiment, we are the ones who can change things within it without violating the rules that Satan himself has set up. And we are the ones who can choose God if we wish. Of course, this infuriates Satan because it proves that despite all of his perfect and beautiful illusion, the truth of God still wins out in the end.
God is in control. But that control also means that free will must play out...and in the end the choices we freely make may be the most important aspect of our existence.
You got me thinking theology this morning, so I'm going to lay it all out for you. This is the only analysis of Christianity that makes sense to me...
The creator of this physical world is Satan, and his power is an emulation of God's. It's pretty good but not entirely real because the divine spark of true creation always come from God Himself.
We are partially the creation of Satan's physical world (our bodies) while also being God's children through the divine spark within all of us. This divine spark is often called "soul".
This physical world is kind of like a science experiment. It's Satan's attempt to "out-god God". He wanted to make a perfectly balanced, perfectly consistent, self-sustaining creation. And this world is perfectly balanced. Good equals bad in all things. For example, if you feed a puppy and watch it grow, other animals will need to die in order to provide meat to feed it. If you fall in love with someone, one day either you or your loved one will die, resulting in sorrow. Every birth results in death.
Keeping all this in mind, we can answer why God does not intervene. And the answer is free will. Satan, as a divine being, has the gift of free will from God, just as Man -- a partially divine being -- also has free will.
God cannot intervene with our affairs because He would then be stepping into the science experiment that Satan has set up. And if He took away that free will from Satan, God would be denying the nature of his own creation.
But how could God leave us to suffer, you may ask? God has not left us abandoned. We also have free will, thus God can only show us the way. He cannot force us into it. God speaks to us constantly if we listen, and He even sent Christ to be a little more obvious about the message.
Because we are an inherent part of Satan's experiment, we are the ones who can change things within it without violating the rules that Satan himself has set up. And we are the ones who can choose God if we wish. Of course, this infuriates Satan because it proves that despite all of his perfect and beautiful illusion, the truth of God still wins out in the end.
God is in control. But that control also means that free will must play out...and in the end the choices we freely make may be the most important aspect of our existence.