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originally posted by: akushla99
Attempting to argue non-free-will from a position of non-free-will IS the only paradox...it IS a self-imposed limit of the will - self-imposed, using what?...non-free-will?
Å99
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Abednego
So why is it so much easier to do evil than to do good? Why is there no universal balance? It seems that things are rigged so that everyone will make evil decisions throughout their lives. Some thinking that those decisions, no matter how reprehensible, are 100% justified. Then we include situations where god, in his attempt to correct maligned behavior, makes things worse for humans. Such as the Tower of Babel.
originally posted by: Abednego
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Abednego
So why is it so much easier to do evil than to do good? Why is there no universal balance? It seems that things are rigged so that everyone will make evil decisions throughout their lives. Some thinking that those decisions, no matter how reprehensible, are 100% justified. Then we include situations where god, in his attempt to correct maligned behavior, makes things worse for humans. Such as the Tower of Babel.
You need to see this from the perspective of nature. Everything age, gets old. Same happens with the collective mind of humanity, it's grow old, decay.
Collective mind decay, then evil comes and take it's part.
As more humans are born, the less resources are available. Everything becomes a competition to survive, therefore you have to stop sharing your part and sometimes get rid of your competition. And the circle repeat itself until the Tower of babel comes. Tower of Babel is a symbolic story for another end of the world scenario.
Why is decay synonymous with evil? Decay happens to everything, yet we view it so negatively. Personally, I think this is because decay represents a reminder to humans of our own mortality. I find it unlikely though that decay is inherently evil or lets evil in easier than something that isn't as decayed.
I don't see many redeeming benefits of the symbolism from the Tower of Babel. I understand it didn't happen and even recognize that even the ancient Hebrews didn't believe it was true. It was more intended to be a nice story to explain language diversification, but coupled with what god becomes after Jesus arrives on earth, the Tower of Babel story takes on new meaning as a big dick move.
originally posted by: Abednego
You are correct decay is not evil. But humans will always look for an excuse to not accept the reality of their actions.
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Real or not it's symbolism is there (the one above is just one of the many interpretations).
This may sounds fantastic:
Right now humans are building (symbolically) a Tower of Babel. We are exploring the galaxy and the planets (trying to reach to heaven). At any time in the future there will be so many colonies in space that humans will change and evolve (diversification of language) into different kinds of being adapted to the environment they live.
And the story will repeat again.
I just came up with that one.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Because God creates evil, this allows his angels to rebel against him and commit the ultimate sin against God.
So more importantly, why did God let Satan and all the other betrayer angels survive knowing that they'd go on to tempt man in the ways of evil? Why didn't God destroy these betrayer angels on the spot? In the Old Testament, God isn't adverse to destroying whole cities for reprehensible evil, yet God can't bring himself to destroying angels that have committed the sin of war against God.
This allows these angels to supposedly go on and tempt man into the ways of evil. And again, we see God punishing man for falling to the temptations of these fallen angels (devils now).
God doesn't ever hold these devils accountable for their actions.
He just indiscriminately lays waste to large parts of the world killing sinner and believer alike for the actions that originated from a group that remains outside of judgment from God.
God does all this apparently so that when He has decided that evil has ran rampant throughout the earth for long enough, He can wage one final war against evil.
But again, God is responsible for all of this. He created it. He allows it to continue. He could end it at any time. Sounds like a sick joke to me.
originally posted by: WashMoreFeet
You are assuming God created evil and that this "created evil" is what allows His angels to rebel against Him. This assumption is in error. God did not create evil, see my previous reply.
It is the angel's ability to exercise free will that allows them to rebel.
It is my understanding that when God decided to create our existence with the inclusion of free will, such a creation dictated that its existence must run its full course, otherwise it would negate all opportunities of free will to be exercised. Only God knows the moment that entropy will reach its maximum state, everything that occurs in the meantime is the working out of creation as a whole and complete cycle of existence.
When we are tempted, we are learning and growing. We are either growing closer to God, or further away from Him. We are realizing our potential for being part of the "good" portion of creation or being part of the "rebellious" portion of creation. It is also referred to as "refinement". We are being refined and groomed for life after our physical existence. Everyone of the age of accountability will be given a choice. God sets the choice of "life" and "death" before everyone, and He implores them to choose "life". But rebellion is deceitful and gives men the illusion that God is a tyrant, even that free will itself is an illusion if the only choices are "life" or "death".
This comment is sheer ignorance, it is a "shaking your fist at the sky" attempt. God does nothing indiscriminately, He knows the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. He exists outside of time and reality as we know it and He is a God of unfathomable order and perfection. We are mere mortals, incapable of even beginning to wrap our finite mind around His infinite wisdom. We can't even travel outside of our own solar system, yet we presume to fathom His reasoning and criticize His actions from our faulty and flawed perspective.
He will destroy evil and all of creation will be reconciled, this is an unavoidable truth.
That is because your assumptions are incorrect and your perspective is marred and clouded by deceit. Perhaps you created this thread because something inside of you will not let you rest until you see God through the lens of truth. I pray that you would be given eyes to see and ears to hear. God loves all men and desires for them all to repent and come to the saving knowledge of forgiveness, which makes all those who believe new creatures in Christ, fit for the coming kingdom.
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
originally posted by: akushla99
Attempting to argue non-free-will from a position of non-free-will IS the only paradox...it IS a self-imposed limit of the will - self-imposed, using what?...non-free-will?
Å99
Yuppers; I would say the only 'free or self will' is one imposed as FALSE trickery upon the human by THE BOSS of all things created [belongs to this creator being alone/only and has the 'utility' patent]. The human; thinking (righty so) would imagine as it might be/or is actually God aspect/expression of could (as a human) have free will. I disagree. Much confusion involved; but no one is here representing the higher realms to clarify the EXACT meaning of free/self will. As far as I understand both are a state of 'insignificant awareness' God owns ON PURPOSE; (BTW: do not go against your nature as that's the key to your soul progression stay true to your evilness or goodness don't confuse the issues). Defining ONES OWN individualized nature is the next step to ultimate enlightenment.
akushla99: Attempting to argue non-free-will from a position of non-free-will IS the only paradox...it IS a self-imposed limit of the will - self-imposed, using what?...non-free-will?
Å99
vhb: Yuppers; I would say the only 'free or self will' is one imposed as FALSE trickery upon the human by THE BOSS of all things created [belongs to this creator being alone/only and has the 'utility' patent]. The human; thinking (righty so) would imagine as it might be/or is actually God aspect/expression of could (as a human) have free will. I disagree. Much confusion involved; but no one is here representing the higher realms to clarify the EXACT meaning of free/self will. As far as I understand both are a state of 'insignificant awareness' God owns ON PURPOSE; (BTW: do not go against your nature as that's the key to your soul progression stay true to your evilness or goodness don't confuse the issues). Defining ONES OWN individualized nature is the next step to ultimate enlightenment.
akushla99: Problem is, 'all here' are 'representing the higher realms' in a trickle-down effect...
There is no error in the inclusive aspect of 'free or self will'...the illusion is created by other mechanisms, notably the propensity for the 'creative' mind to banish the creative process to ridiculous oblivion...snake eats its own tail...The mechanics of non-free will cannot 'create' an illusion...in this case, the illusion is already there...and free-will or non-free-will have an irrelevancy beyond discussion.
originally posted by: bb23108
"Why did God create evil?" He didn't. The Divine Reality does not create anything or anyone. The Divine is the indivisible (non-separate) conscious light/energy in which everything and everyone appears as a modification of.
The Divine has no cause-and-effect relationship to all this conditionality. The Divine is unconditional reality, beyond but not separate from any conditions.
Beings arise as patterns of separation, patterns which are constantly developed and replicated by the physical and spiritual laws of the cosmic machine, and we create our destinies through further and further identification with these patterns.
To transcend this endless patterning of apparent limitation is only possible when there is full surrender to the unconditional Reality in which we all appear.
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
You are saying God did not define (CREATE) the conditions of 'good vs evil' to exist? Who allowed both expressions to thrive [express themselves] and to what purpose as you say: patterns meaningless? We at this point have to outsmart GOD? (or surrender to it higher being). We are not slaves to God Aspect; as are IT as its expression and wants the dialog with the human.
VHB: You are saying God did not define (CREATE) the conditions of 'good vs evil' to exist? Who allowed both expressions to thrive [express themselves] and to what purpose as you say: patterns meaningless? We at this point have to outsmart GOD? (or surrender to it higher being). We are not slaves to God Aspect; as are IT as its expression and wants the dialog with the human.
bb23108: Right - there is no separate Creator-God making all things and beings for some kind of whatever. That idea of a Creator-God is a myth based on the same myth that makes us think we are fundamentally separate entities, somewhere inside the body-mind.
God is the One unqualified self-aware Being-energy in which ALL things and beings appear and disappear as modifications of that One Being-energy. It is not a matter of God creating such modifications - they are conditionally generated patterns in the light-energy that all conditions arise in, replicate in, and endlessly change in.
bb23108: God (Reality) is unconditional, prior to but not separate from anything conditional. However, Reality does NOT have a cause and effect relationship to all things and others - these are patterns endlessly perpetuated by other patterns, in a constant replication like cellular reproduction. Patterns cause and are affected by other patterns - such is conditional life.
bb23108: Conditional beings create all these permutations in the One Reality because fundamental awareness identifies with a body-mind and only then feels a sense of separate self. From there, the endless replication of separate, egoic activity, much of which is evil, ensues. That has nothing to do with some Creator-God - it has all to do with the illusory separate, egoic, self-obsessed, sense of self - the pattern of separation that is unreal at its root.
originally posted by: MimiSia
a reply to: Krazysh0t
maybe s/he was a little bi-curious?
What is evil?
Killing is evil,lying is evil, slandering is evil,abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil,hatred is evil....etc...
Says who?
your heart or your court or your mum?
Our brain is not designed to be sweet and cuddly all the time
btw I see u are a pot fan?
if u care to share ?
when y have a puff of ur magic dragon what type of experience do u have?
I am the one not funny percenter unfair to the 99%
can u snapshot ur avatar into my threat can't see it and am curious