From young on, I never believed in god, religion or church - any. Always saw it as a form of 'slavery'...to keep the masses under control through fear. There is the saying...'religion the root of all evils'...Is it so? But...as I always say...to each it's own.
The saying goes (which is from the Bible...) - "The love of money is the root of all evil."
Which is applicable to many religions and churches.
God is not the "author" of man's evil choices. Each individual makes their own in free will.
I urge you to consider God without the burdens man has attempted to harness Him with and I hope you will come to see a one on one relationship with God is the ultimate freedom.
Slavery has no place there. Man attempts to enslave man using God as his tool of enslavement. It's a story as old as time and the Bible tells those stories throughout.
As I said...to each it's own. As I see it...with all the miseries that keep happening in our world...there just CAN'T BE A GOD. Where is he/she? Sleeping on the job?
God is allowing us to make our own choices and to bear the consequences. For the sake of our souls.
To hold God responsible for the consequences of our own actions is like a little child who steals cookies and when caught blames the baker who made the cookies. It's grossly immature and irrational.
Until an individual chooses God, studies His ways and chooses to follow His wisdom, one is doomed to not only repeat the mistakes over and over, but to find themselves in the pitiful position of sitting in a pile of broken cookie crumbs crying over the mess they themselves have made.
A situation made even more pitiful in light that full grown adults are sitting in a mess crying over it like babies. Excusable in a baby, but not an adult.
God doesn't bend people to His will though He does offer ample persuasion for anyone to come to Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
He instructs us to choose to follow Him.
Or not. Because it doesn't work any other way as He's told us.
Because that's the way He made us.
It is man who strives and connives to bend others to their will. That's man's way and it is indeed a horror show.
Until it dawns on one that man's desire to be god always results in horror, nothing will change in the individual and they will find themselves caught in the traps of others, helpless and enslaved and preyed upon.
Or, God forbid, as the predator that cannibalizes his fellow man. A monster. Engulfed in and serving evil.
God did not create us to be His slaves. Quite the contrary. He created us to be His offspring. To live in dignity and grace under His mercy. He sets us free from the enslavement of the world.
He has promised this will all end and it will. I think anyone, believer in God or not, if they are an honest thinking person, can see this world cannot continue as it is.
From young on, I never believed in god, religion or church - any. Always saw it as a form of 'slavery'...to keep the masses under control through fear. There is the saying...'religion the root of all evils'...Is it so? But...as I always say...to each it's own.
The saying goes (which is from the Bible...) - "The love of money is the root of all evil."
Which is applicable to many religions and churches.
God is not the "author" of man's evil choices. Each individual makes their own in free will.
I urge you to consider God without the burdens man has attempted to harness Him with and I hope you will come to see a one on one relationship with God is the ultimate freedom.
Slavery has no place there. Man attempts to enslave man using God as his tool of enslavement. It's a story as old as time and the Bible tells those stories throughout.
God Bless.
As I said...to each it's own. As I see it...with all the miseries that keep happening in our world...there just CAN'T BE A GOD. Where is he/she? Sleeping on the job?
You might want to take a look at theosophy. An eclectic mix of precepts and values to live by.
God is allowing us to make our own choices and to bear the consequences. For the sake of our souls.
To hold God responsible for the consequences of our own actions is like a little child who steals cookies and when caught blames the baker who made the cookies. It's grossly immature and irrational.
Until an individual chooses God, studies His ways and chooses to follow His wisdom, one is doomed to not only repeat the mistakes over and over, but to find themselves in the pitiful position of sitting in a pile of broken cookie crumbs crying over the mess they themselves have made.
A situation made even more pitiful in light that full grown adults are sitting in a mess crying over it like babies. Excusable in a baby, but not an adult.
God doesn't bend people to His will though He does offer ample persuasion for anyone to come to Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
He instructs us to choose to follow Him.
Or not. Because it doesn't work any other way as He's told us.
Because that's the way He made us.
It is man who strives and connives to bend others to their will. That's man's way and it is indeed a horror show.
Until it dawns on one that man's desire to be god always results in horror, nothing will change in the individual and they will find themselves caught in the traps of others, helpless and enslaved and preyed upon.
Or, God forbid, as the predator that cannibalizes his fellow man. A monster. Engulfed in and serving evil.
God did not create us to be His slaves. Quite the contrary. He created us to be His offspring. To live in dignity and grace under His mercy. He sets us free from the enslavement of the world.
He has promised this will all end and it will. I think anyone, believer in God or not, if they are an honest thinking person, can see this world cannot continue as it is.
His promises are true and always fulfilled.
I beautiful and sorrowful poem. Like longing for a dead lover.
So much wisdom in Paul's words to Timothy - Do not forget your first love.
Your poem helps me to keep the little flame of my first love for Him burning and alive.
Thank you so much. God Bless.