Author of Everything

Hello Everyone!

This Christian journey has certainly not been easy; especially when I was younger, because I, like most people, had a tendency to question everything.

When I didn’t get the answers I was searching for, I leaned upon my own understanding, which of course only caused more questions, a great deal of anger and misery, and a loss in faith. Eventually as I matured I came to understand that getting the answers to all my questions still wouldn’t save me if I wasn’t living the life that I was supposed to be living.

I developed a relationship with God that a lot of people disagree with, and if you have the time, I would like to read YOUR thoughts:

I believe that God is the author of EVERYTHING. Every single thing on our Earth and in our universe, ONLY exist because of HE created it; all of the good, as well as all of the bad…absolutely nothing can exist without HIM.

This would also suggest that God created sin…which is a major idea that Christians frown upon, consider blasphemy, because we are taught from childhood that our God is only capable of creating good and beautiful things. We are taught that everything wrong and dark and evil in our world is not the work of God, but if everyone else…Adam and Eve, of Satan, of mankind because of our misuse of free will…

However; if God is the author of everything in our universe, then that would made Him the author of the pride and arrogance which caused Lucifer to turn on Him. And sin did not simply manifest for absolutely nothing when Adam partook of the forbidden fruit, some sort of “code” for sin had to be written for it to even exist, or else it couldn’t have.

Human, beings that a a billion-times lesser than our God have the ability to do good and bad simultaneously; so logically, it’s not too far fetched that our very own creature is capable of the same.

I love God…and realize that my feeble human mind can’t come even vaguely close to understanding why He created what He did. So I accept all of the good, as well as all the bad.

This would also suggest that God created sin…which is a major idea that Christians frown upon, consider blasphemy, because we are taught from childhood that our God is only capable of creating good and beautiful things. We are taught that everything wrong and dark and evil in our world is not the work of God, but if everyone else…Adam and Eve, of Satan, of mankind because of our misuse of free will…

However; if God is the author of everything in our universe, then that would made Him the author of the pride and arrogance which caused Lucifer to turn on Him. And sin did not simply manifest for absolutely nothing when Adam partook of the forbidden fruit, some sort of “code” for sin had to be written for it to even exist, or else it couldn’t have.

God did not create sin any more than the Chevrolet company created bad maintenance. Sin is when we don't follow the instruction manual and do things our own way. Pride is thinking we don't have to bother following the manual.

All the trials, tribulation and suffering in the world... that's what happens when we don't follow the manual. We can't blame God any more than i could blame Chevy for my minivan breaking down because I never bothered getting the oil changed.

Sin, is not a random consequence for disobeying The Lord that just popped up out of nowhere…it was designed. It has a purpose. And if God did not want it sin to be a consequence…it wouldn’t be.

To say that sin is a result of some random consequence of disobedience that came from nowhere, is to say that is something out of God’s hands.

Christian Standard Bible
I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I am the LORD, who does all these things.
This example from Magenta up above is pretty much what I am trying to say. I am in NO WAY saying that God is evil, but that…at least on this plane of existence…there has to be a balance.

Hello Daniel, first off, since I see that you are a new member, welcome to CChat

As for what you just posted, you said that, "there has to be a balance". A balance between what exactly (perhaps light/dark or good/evil ).

Thanks!

God bless you!!

~Deut

Hello again @DanielThompson, several of our eastern religions (Taoism/Buddhism/etc.) teach that there is a Yin/Yang, a necessary balance between light/dark, positive/negative, good/evil, in this world, and then there's Star Wars and the "balance" between the two sides of the force, of course (actually, Star Wars philosophy is based on Buddhism), but where does the Bible/Christianity teach the necessity of a Yin/Yang balance, or that such thing (a "balance" between good/evil) even exists

Do you, for instance, believe that Satan is the "Yin" to Yahweh's "Yang" (and if so, where do we see that in the Bible)

Thanks!

~Deut

Of course, as I grew older, I came to understand that much of this pain is to teach us lessons. And that is where the “epiphany” that light and darkness (sin) were meant to work in unison to help mold us. The light and the dark are a balance.

And since our God is a God of balance…it just seemed to make sense.

I will most definitely research this subject more. Thank you.

As I’ve mentioned, one of the reasons why I am here is to better align myself with the truth, and for a long time the idea of a balance has been a big part of my beliefs.

This belief has been in ALL aspects of life, not just in matters of goodness and sin. Its like how God allowed the night to balance the day, or how He created women to be a balance to men. So, for all intensive purposes, it does at least APPEAR that God likes balance. But if that way of thinking is wrong, I am definitely willing to look into the more reasonable explanation for the way the world is.

And…I guess…if looking at it…there certainly seems to be way more darkness in this world than light. So in that aspect, I guess there really is no balance.

I will look more into it.

I guess I am also wrong in thinking that God has power over everything…which is kind of an upsetting thought. Because to suggest that God has power over ONLY “good” things, and that everyone else, except Him, is responsible for the rest, or that the characteristics of sin just…appeared out of nowhere…is to suggest that there are things that God doesn’t have power over. That some things just…happen…without His authority.

I just thought that there was absolutely nothing in this world that could happen without the authority of God.

I’m going to do a lot of digging. But at the same time…ONLY (and only) if you have the time, I would greatly appreciate if you allowing me to dig deeper into your mind as well.

And again, I’m grateful that you are taking the time to discuss this issue with me; this needs to happen for me to correct any erroneous ideology I possess.