I'm not really the religious type but I am gifted not with a sense of perception but more strangely with the same as everyone else but not the same sense of denial. It's as though everyone is born with eyes and a blindfold to match.
When I look at the story of genesis I see a birds and the bees story. The thing we humans don't appreciate is that we're not all knowing and not all God. Even those who try to get close often fall astray. Part of the point of the story about the apple is about the curse of knowledge. I don't think people get it or want to. It's a story of the extent of our knowledge and to accept it yet no one does so they make up that the knowledge they have is all their is to have and yet some claim to a greater being with more? Get over yourselves.
The hidden curse is that in spite of raiding the vault and tapping that we're still not know it alls like God yet cursed with something worse than belief in God, the belief that we can be. True enlightenment is the acceptance of our limitations and learning to make the best of what we have. A little bird tells me he's quite disappointed with all the people demanding more knowledge to compensate for their inability to make do with what they have and failing to the best out of it so they need more ammunition. You demand for more when your plate is still full? At least Oliver Twist didn't return for more until his plate was empty but his stomach still not full.
The real story of Jesus is about human instinct. We always gang up against and turn on the innocent. Jesus is one of millions. The whole lesson was what if one of these people is the son of god?
What if I'm an alien sent here in this body to understand you more but because I'm alien I'm different and then everyone turns on me and tries to kill me like the runt rather than putting of the inevitable as slaves to their collective nature?
What happened to Jesus has happened to hundreds of millions but they are not significant enough to be noteworthy as the son of God. It is also our own undoing. Look at us doing it to Putin despite that he can order effectively the end of the world and the equivalent of the flood with his nuclear arsenal? Now that's what I call the great reset. Look at us doing it to our own like Trump imploding and risking sending our country into disarray and instability.
They talk about white privilege but look at what they do to Trump. Where is his white privilege card? When has he been given immunity to allegation or false accusation because he's white? This is true madness. It is beyond mass hysteria.
The world will not tolerate so well an armed nation falling into chaos. Though I don't know if God exists or not these stories of old contain humans which do exist and we must heed them at our peril because we got it wrong then and as time goes by the stakes only increase.
I never thought as a militant atheist I would come to understand the Bible not only in a way beyond my failed peers but to potentially exceed Christians as well. Perhaps if something as miraculous as my being and soul can exist then so can a God but I shall have to wait and see.
In the mean time we have true demons manifesting themselves before us to slay. I only truly believe in what I see and what I see is real evil. Yet I do not seek simply to remove it from my sight. It must be removed from all plains of existence.
Working out what is good is hard. I once tried to argue science could and I was wrong. Good is not guessing and getting it right first time but knowing when you've gotten it right. Millions of people made that mistake.
Yet how many do you meet that say I'm sorry I was wrong? Probably not many but the opposite amount will tell you you're wrong. If anyone is going to tell you you're wrong and it to be worth a damn then it probably has to be that one in a million.
Personally I think if there were a God that understanding right from wrong is so hard it might even be beyond such a being. If there is such a being then as I discover right from wrong as an unwitting test pilot then I shall share it.
I don't know if God is the answer but I do fundamentally agree that good is often beyond us in many situations yet we do strive for it. It's not as easy as people appreciate.
I think you might be just as wrong as thinking good is as easy as following anything associated with God or a great authority on knowledge as leftists following anything with science vaguely associated with it which is a specific and not general authority on knowledge.
Perhaps your heart is in the right place but it is really difficult. You need to take confession seriously. I first confess to myself. Learn to get over yourself. They overs will get over you and if there is a God perhaps that as well. One of our biggest crimes is holding ourselves to an impossible standard. The longer it takes for people to confess the longer it takes to forgive and when they refuse to ever confess they earn their place in eternal damnation.
I didn't get the video.
its not hard, its very easy. there is a moral law that was established in the very beginning. the commandments. us as people will play all kinds of mind games, and do whatever we need to to try to get around these laws, but there is no getting around them. what's good is good, and even a child knows the difference between good and bad. you didn't understand the video, or didn't get the link?
I envy you. It's harder for me than that. I was given too much and yet therefore not enough. I can see around the corners. Or rather the opposite, the dark corners not illuminated.
It's almost redundant. They are simple rules. I see the wrong in stealing without being told. I wish it were so easy,
I didn't get the link. Can you try to send it with a space in between or something to evade filters?
You should accept that I am not you. Yet this is true diversity and we share our uniqueness.
if its not easy for you yet then that means your heart hasn't been changed, you haven't been born again. you'll know when that happens, it will hit you like a freight train. here, this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZdv-TtiMkg
I don't want it to be easy. Even though I do. I oppose myself to become better. I don't know if there is a God but their is original sin baked into me. The potential for good or bad are imbued in me in equal measure. I always have a choice even if I'm not sure which is evil and which is holy.
I would not recommend this path for you but I take it not merely for myself I go first into the fire so others can find out.
I'll watch it and let you know.
just sent it, did you get it?
Got it, I'll let you know if I get it.
I like the video. It doesn't turn me but I also recognised birds of a feather also fighting the same impossible fight whichever way they can. Truly we are not alone.
There is something divine about existence but I don't know what it is. I just stood looking at the clouds. An incredible formation suspended there. I don't know where it comes from but either way I would not waste it. Either way it was a glorious sight.
I'm not sure if I'm fond or not of the interviewer saying that limits your knowledge. Though I believe knowledge is important there's a limit. The same as eating. How much do you really need? The interviewer is a bit like the devil. I believe the forbidden fruit contained no knowledge and the depth of the sin is overlooked. It only contained the promise of knowledge.
You know there are people who read 1984 and truly believe the main character is the villain without even admitting it to themselves? I thing the same goes for the Bible. They become the snake and use the book as their apple.