Every single Christian I have ever met, have all said to look to the Bible for answers. You are the one and only exception.
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One final thing; then I really have to go for the day.
I have been a witness to many (nearly countless) bad things; and I am not unique in that aspect; it is something that is unfortunately common amongst many.
And being raised in the church, I was always told that Man was responsible for the bad things because he CHOSE to do bad. I was always told that Satan and his followers were responsible for the bad.
I am a naturally good artist. I practically popped out of the womb with a pencil and paper doing drawings. But despite this, there has been some of my art that people did not like, that people were able to point out the flaws in. And in this flawed art, I would instantly except that the reason it was flawed was because of me; because of something that I did wrong. I did not BLAME MY CREATION for being flawed.
It boggles my mind how Christians cannot see that a SUPREME ARCHITECT (God), who is in control of every single minute particle of everything...is totally, completely, blameless. It boggles my mind how Christians cannot see that this artwork, which is our lives, which is this world...is flawed, because the artist is as well.
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One final thing; then I really have to go for the day.
I have been a witness to many (nearly countless) bad things; and I am not unique in that aspect; it is something that is unfortunately common amongst many.
And being raised in the church, I was always told that Man was responsible for the bad things because he CHOSE to do bad. I was always told that Satan and his followers were responsible for the bad.
I am a naturally good artist. I practically popped out of the womb with a pencil and paper doing drawings. But despite this, there has been some of my art that people did not like, that people were able to point out the flaws in. And in this flawed art, I would instantly except that the reason it was flawed was because of me; because of something that I did wrong. I did not BLAME MY CREATION for being flawed.
It boggles my mind how Christians cannot see that a SUPREME ARCHITECT (God), who is in control of every single minute particle of everything...is totally, completely, blameless. It boggles my mind how Christians cannot see that this artwork, which is our lives, which is this world...is flawed, because the artist is as well.
If Jesus did not tell us to emulate a Zeus-like god, but rather to look only at Him, and do as He did, why would we think we are, instead, supposed to "smite' people and rain down fire and brimstone on them?