Let's start with the bad news...
e v i l ...........extreme evil......
How bad can evil be??
Answer EXTREMELY BAD...EXTREMELY EVIL....
e.g. Abusing small children..torturing them and then eating them...OR SLOWLY DRINKING THEIR BLOOD...that is pretty extreme....
but think about the horrors and pain caused by war....
take drones which are meant to target one terrorist but end up in destroying or even worse maiming a whole wedding party..of old men and women, TEEN AGE GIRLS AND BOYS, young children babies etc etc etc ...
NOW FOR EVERY ACTION THERE HAS TO BE AN OPPOSITE REACTION..
What is that reaction going to be called and described??
GOOD.....EXTREME GOOD...
Extreme mercy....Extreme forgiveness....Extreme kindness....Extreme patience...Extreme love....everything that is considered good but in the EXTREME.....Extreme good POWER...A GOOD POWER THAT WILL TRUMP ALL THE EVIL POWERS...A GOOD POWER THAT WILL BE STRONGER THAN ALL THE EVIL FORCES PUT TOGETHER. A GOOD POWER THAT HAS THE CAPACITY TO ANNIHILATE ALL THE EVIL POWER ARRAYED AGAINST IT, IN JUST ONE MOVE OF ITS LITTLE FINGER...
NOW LETS PUT A SPIRITUAL NAME TO THESE TWO FORCES??
Let's do the bad first...
evil....how about d...evil??
Or just plain devil...satan...lucifer...
Ok so now it is goods turn.....
GOOD.....take out one O and we have GOD...How can we tell what God is like??
Where can we find a description of the attributes of God?
In books written by good men? Problem, men are only good some of the time.. Men make mistakes...Men can have very mixed motives...
WE NEED a book written about a godman....actually we need a book written by a godman about THIS GODMAN... So how do we get this??
Now I sincerely believe that this all powerful God being has made the perfect set up. THE PERFECT SET UP...
Just as evil has the perfect set up for carrying out evil through Stealing...Killing...Destroying See Gospel of John ch 10 verse 10...
So God has set up his perfect model by sending His Only Begotten Son to die as a human sacrifice for our sins on Mount Calvary 2000 years ago.
He then conquered death three days later, the final enemy..just so we could do the same by accepting his plan ...accepting HIM into our heart....
Then the Holy Spirit which is also a God part in the trinity mystery of our TRINITARIAN God, grabs a hold of very special, mainly eye witness dedicated good men, and directly supervises and oversees them to write a perfect account of just how God reacts and acts while walking around in a man's body for three and a half years from the age of approximately 30 to 33 and a 1/2.
This is how the New Testament of the Holy Word of God was recorded for posterity. I also believe that the same rules apply to the first covenant, THE OLD TESTAMENT as well, but for now let's just consider THE NEW.....
Human beings who do not want to understand the above, brushing it off as being over simplified, and who want to show themselves as being extraordinarily clever and intelligent will criticise this childishly simple approach..
They will try to introduce a more so called pseudoscientific thesis.
Like the serpent in the Garden of Eden account they will cast doubt on the simplicity of God's simple directions...
Like the serpent, they will exclaim..."HAS GOD SAID???" "DOES GOD REALLY MEAN WHAT HE SAYS??"
7 days for creation??? Ridiculous!!!
A talking snake??? Ridiculous!!!
A firmament above and below the waters??? That does not make any sense...
We know much better!!!!A BIG BANG for creation taking billions and trillions of years.
EVOLUTION...by a billions of years of natural selection...not just a simple 7 day for creation.."HEY THERE GOD!!!!
WE ARE ALSO SMART.. WE ARE MADE IN YOUR IMAGE..
MAYBE WE ARE NOW SMARTER THAN YOU GOD!!!!" We are an improvement on your original model...yourself....
I think you are one getting the point...
A few days ago I wrote this...
ASUN CENTRIC OR HELIO CENTRIC AS OPPOSED TO GEO CENTRIC...EARTH CENTRED....
So here we go...I've touched on this before.....
One...1... He does not exist...the atheists are right.....
Two...2...He does exist but he is an asshole.....
Let me explain....
He allows babies to be tortured
He allows terrible wars...sickness...famines...unfairness...corruption...and and and...
He has left no true record for us mere stupid mortals to read so we can learn about HIM.....
There is a book called the bible but it has been tampered with by sinful wicked men so that we who try to believe in him are left in the dark doubting nearly every word from the many translations.
Or
Three...3... HE IS A MARVELLOUS, LOVING, FORGIVING, MERCIFUL CREATOR, WHO IS CRAZILY IN LOVE WITH EACH ONE OF US WITHOT PREJUDICE.... He gave us a wonderful way out... He sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ to this earth on purpose to die for our many sins and failings, to die in our place, to be punished for the severe punishment that I truly deserve, on a cruel cross on Calvary some 2000 years ago?
John CH 3:16....FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE SACRIFICED HIS ONE AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
HE has to allow evil so as to give us one more great gift..
That of the freedom of choice between good and evil...
No evil then no free choice and we would all be do goody robots.
MY OWN POSITION IS NUMBER THREE...
He has left a book behind that WAS WRITTEN BY Holy men of God directed and carefully overseen by the third person of the trinity...FATHER...SON... HOLY SPIRIT!!!!!!!! Yes the Holy Spirit!!!
I have been a Bible student, not only studying the scriptures but actually putting them into practice...putting them to the test in CRAZY situations every day of my life and especially for the last 45 years...
There are many translations of the Bible but they are all intrinsically the same.. Saying the same thing using different words but meaning the same....
FROM THIS SIMPLE AND CHILDLIKE POSITION I THINK IT IS VERY EASY..VERY SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE BASICS ABOUT OUR CREATOR AND about his enemy the d...evil.....Satan...lucifer...
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