I believe that things just are.
I believe good and evil are only labels put by man to don’t need to explain why one should act/not act in a certain way.
I believe in an immortal soul that is part of a Earth-wide soul. I believe that “God” is this grand soul and therefore we can find the divine within ourselves.
I believe that the meaning of life is that we should develop and explore ourselves and our souls. Then when we join the Mother Earth after we die, we have helped the whole world to become a better place.
I wrote this on The Rouge Wave’s challenge to write what you believe in with no more than hundred words.
No, I don’t consider myself Christian for many years. But I am very interested in religion. Right now I’m reading Jonas Gardell’s book “About God” in which he explores the God described in the Old Testament. A book that gave him an honorary degree.
He asks how the God who sits down under a tree with Abraham eating bread and drinking milk could be the same God that slaughters thousands of people when invading Canaan.
His answer is that it isn’t.
At this time the World was full of different Gods, demons and other creatures. The God Abraham served bread and milk was not the same that took the Hebrews out of Egypt.
I remember a script I read not long ago to give feedback. It was about this invasion of Canaan and it was a gory and tasteless story. I’m sure it was well written, but the cruelty and the mercilessness of innocent made me sick.
Somehow the writer tried to find a good God in this story, an explanation to this cruelty, but didn’t succeed in my opinion.
Now I understand why.
The God that most Christians identify today wasn’t there.
There was nothing good and kind about the God invading Canaan. It was a God that justifies killing of innocent people, slaughters objectors and is too jealous of other gods to allow his people to worship any other than himself.
Am I provocative? Good.
5 comments:
I think that God can do what ever He wants to do. He created us, we didn't create ourselves. Sometimes we only see a part of the story, we don't get to see the whole view like God does, yet we all too quickly judge God as evil based solely on what we witness and how we witness that act. Great post, it makes you think!
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I wish Jonas Gardell's book was translated to English, because it contains many good points. And he has a strong belief in God as a Christian, so it does not attack but try to understand.
Dear Désirée,
Indeedyour post makes you think and analyze. We are all created by one God but that doesn't mean that his creations are protected from war and suffering. Human beings are very vulnarable for making errors and bringing suffering to other people. I agree with Rachelle that we often only see a part of the story and not the whole piece. This is the reason why many people condemn God for allowing suffering, war, hunger, abuse etc. That condemnation isn't (always) right.
Great post, thanks for making us think. Provocative? Well, that isn't bad at all! I like it.
Have a great weekend!
Thank you.
What really got me thinking was the idea that at the time these events took place it was a world of many gods.
Today we are so drilled that there is only one God that most of us have not considered that in their world they believed there where several, even if they only worshiped one.
After all, the Bible is an historic text and need to be read as such to fully comprehend its message.
I find the concept of God to simple to believe in. My own belief system changes almost everyday and is close to the beliefs of a man named Robert Monroe. He believed in an Over Soul and I believe in a One Soul.
I believe we are all the same soul in different points of time and space.
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