I have been recently reading NDE's (near death experinces) and theories by Aristotle and I have come up with a theory of my own.
Maybe (and i don't know wether to believe this) we have two identites. One spiritual and one physical. The spiritual one (maybe the first?) is born into the spiritual existence. In this existence we our all totally devoid of ignorance (we could not be born otherwise), we our naturally one with God, there is naturally no suffering, we all naturally live compatible with each other, we naturally love others more and we all nataurally have true knowlegde (e.g. understanding God, the purpose of existence, the way we should live our lives etc). But because of the nature of this spiritual existence we desire to hate, we desire to be disconnected with God, we desire to be selfish, we desire to have no true knowledge and (controversially to a certain extent) we desire to suffer.
Now if you though this theory was stupid, I bet you thought the last part was even more...
But consider this...
We desire to be disconnected with God so we can acquire a connection and experince why we need this, we desire to be selfish so we can understand why it fundamental share, we disire to hate so we can experience why it is unnecesary, we desire to have no true knowledge so we can rediscover it and we desire to suffer so long as it is beneficial to understanding the long run.
I know what you're thinking, if we knew so much in the first place why on earth would we want to re-learn it?
But isn't there a difference between know something and understanding why it is this way?
Then there is the physcial identity, born into the physical existence. We our naturally ignorant (we could not be born otherwise), we our naturally disconnected with God, naturally there is suffering, we our nataurally selfish, we are naturally ask questions (e.g. the purspose of life, how we should live our lives etc). Because of the nature of this existence we desire to understand why we are this way, why we are here, why do we suffer and quite honestly IMO (deep down subconciously or superior) we desire are spiritual identities, basically because if we are that way the world would be so much better...
1 Corinthians 2:14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
This passage is interesting...
IMO our spiritual identity thinks completely different to the physcial one. I think spiritually we choose to become physcial, be born into a world like this and unlearn everything that we once knew. To come from somewhere where everything was complete, the way it is supposed to be and easy into somewhere where it is the opposite would seem like something very foolish, however I think only a inferior being would think this way. Our superior identity knows the very reason why we're here...
Ok i don't know about choosing to be born into this world but I believe we have the two identities...
Maybe (and i don't know wether to believe this) we have two identites. One spiritual and one physical. The spiritual one (maybe the first?) is born into the spiritual existence. In this existence we our all totally devoid of ignorance (we could not be born otherwise), we our naturally one with God, there is naturally no suffering, we all naturally live compatible with each other, we naturally love others more and we all nataurally have true knowlegde (e.g. understanding God, the purpose of existence, the way we should live our lives etc). But because of the nature of this spiritual existence we desire to hate, we desire to be disconnected with God, we desire to be selfish, we desire to have no true knowledge and (controversially to a certain extent) we desire to suffer.
Now if you though this theory was stupid, I bet you thought the last part was even more...
But consider this...
We desire to be disconnected with God so we can acquire a connection and experince why we need this, we desire to be selfish so we can understand why it fundamental share, we disire to hate so we can experience why it is unnecesary, we desire to have no true knowledge so we can rediscover it and we desire to suffer so long as it is beneficial to understanding the long run.
I know what you're thinking, if we knew so much in the first place why on earth would we want to re-learn it?
But isn't there a difference between know something and understanding why it is this way?
Then there is the physcial identity, born into the physical existence. We our naturally ignorant (we could not be born otherwise), we our naturally disconnected with God, naturally there is suffering, we our nataurally selfish, we are naturally ask questions (e.g. the purspose of life, how we should live our lives etc). Because of the nature of this existence we desire to understand why we are this way, why we are here, why do we suffer and quite honestly IMO (deep down subconciously or superior) we desire are spiritual identities, basically because if we are that way the world would be so much better...
1 Corinthians 2:14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
This passage is interesting...
IMO our spiritual identity thinks completely different to the physcial one. I think spiritually we choose to become physcial, be born into a world like this and unlearn everything that we once knew. To come from somewhere where everything was complete, the way it is supposed to be and easy into somewhere where it is the opposite would seem like something very foolish, however I think only a inferior being would think this way. Our superior identity knows the very reason why we're here...
Ok i don't know about choosing to be born into this world but I believe we have the two identities...
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