Consider reality. Now, for a moment if you will, consider the concept of dualism. Consider the possibility of two spiritual realities. One of them is God. The Holy Spirit. The very force and essence of creation. The very definition of pure love. Power. Undefineable except through the character of the man, Jesus Christ. For whatever reason, God allowed evil to exist. His first creation was angels. God never actually created an evil angel. He created angels who had will apart from Him. It appears that God actually only created the possibility of will apart from Him. Call it Spirit apart from Him. This is why there are currently two spiritual realities. We sense the two realities because we have both spirits in our awareness. He did not place two spirits within our awareness. He did originally allow for the possibility of another spirit besides Himself. I do not know why He did this. I do believe that were it not for my ancestors choosing to disobey, I would never know more than one spirit.
If the very real alternate reality of evil was created by God, it only became an alternate reality for humans by humans accepting it.
One can argue that God knew that we would choose this option, but why question the rationale of it? I believe that God chooses to allow us the opportunity to eradicate evil by once again choosing Him. The fact that He allows evil to exist is irrelevant. We live with it.
If He knew that we would choose it the first time, perhaps a different outcome will occur the second time with a more fully mature and aware human race. Or perhaps not. In any case, it is arrogant and ludicrous for us mere humans to grouse about why God does not or can not eliminate evil. Perhaps He is awaiting our decision as to whether we choose to surrender our dualistic spirit nature that is in us and to consciously revert back to allowing His Spirit to consume us, thus eliminating evil from within us eventually.
If I created a robot and the robot looked at me and declared that I had to come from somewhere and that I was not all powerful, I wager that this robot is overstepping its programming and its programmer.
We do not have all of the facts about the origin of anything. We can only choose to declare ourselves the prime origin of thoughts and solutions or we can choose to believe in an originator of all time, logic, matter, and reality.
Some declare that God is a myth. They are using their belief that they and their fellow humans are the originators of all defineable belief through observable reality.
Others have a belief in God. Christians believe in a personal character rather than an undefineable one. This character transcends mere man, however. At least, thats how I believe.
If the very real alternate reality of evil was created by God, it only became an alternate reality for humans by humans accepting it.
One can argue that God knew that we would choose this option, but why question the rationale of it? I believe that God chooses to allow us the opportunity to eradicate evil by once again choosing Him. The fact that He allows evil to exist is irrelevant. We live with it.
If He knew that we would choose it the first time, perhaps a different outcome will occur the second time with a more fully mature and aware human race. Or perhaps not. In any case, it is arrogant and ludicrous for us mere humans to grouse about why God does not or can not eliminate evil. Perhaps He is awaiting our decision as to whether we choose to surrender our dualistic spirit nature that is in us and to consciously revert back to allowing His Spirit to consume us, thus eliminating evil from within us eventually.
If I created a robot and the robot looked at me and declared that I had to come from somewhere and that I was not all powerful, I wager that this robot is overstepping its programming and its programmer.
We do not have all of the facts about the origin of anything. We can only choose to declare ourselves the prime origin of thoughts and solutions or we can choose to believe in an originator of all time, logic, matter, and reality.
Some declare that God is a myth. They are using their belief that they and their fellow humans are the originators of all defineable belief through observable reality.
Others have a belief in God. Christians believe in a personal character rather than an undefineable one. This character transcends mere man, however. At least, thats how I believe.