(October 12, 2015 at 5:38 pm)loganonekenobi Wrote: why would your god make us sexual creatures and then demand us to forgo that desire until only a specific set of circumstances occur? Why would a good and loving god do this and then threaten us with hell in the after life and make us feel guilt in this one.
The answer: A) God is a cruel jokester or
B) there is no god and the whole thing was made up by men who were/are homophobic.
Why does a bakery make cakes and pies when the bakers must know their are people out there who would only eat cakes and pies till they died? Are bakers jokesters? Are their no other healthy bodily needs, and those who only want to binge on cake and pie justified in their diet? thereby rendering those who would allow themselves and their children to ONLY eat cake and pie 'good parents' and those who would say otherwise, hate filled bigoted people?
Cakes and pies, Like sex in this instance has a place in life. It can play a very positive role in our lives if we don't make all of life, all about cakes and pies/sex. It should not define every aspect of who we are, nor rule every part of life. We should not center all life around making and eating Just cake and just pie. Yet their are those who do. So then should all bakeries stop selling cake and pie because their are those of us out there, who will not control their primal urge for sweets?
Or
Is it reasonable for a society to establish some sort of healthy guideline for a proper diet and offer or even tell people they are not eating healthy/tell them to not just eat only what 'taste good' but to them, and Teach them to control their base desires and live a healthy life?
Just incase you missed it, Cakes and pie in this analogy is ALL Sex/Sexual desire. God would have sex be apart of a health life, not the only reason for living. Those who would put sex or their sexual desire before all other aspects of life are those who would only eat cake and pie.
Just because their are people who only live for sex does not mean ALL life is only about what they want to live for. God is seeking to push us past out base 'monkey' desires and make us greater than the sum total of our parts. To borrow a term from another religion, God wants us to be 'enlightened' and a healthy control of our lower base functions/desires is apart of that enlightenment process.
Where Christianity is different that Buddhism is we can never expect to reach that 'enlightenment' by our works, but rather we must earnestly want that enlightenment, and seek atonement and redemption to backfill in our short comings.
The Law of God here is meant not to be the impossible standard in which to live and those who do not meet it burn forever in Hell. Like in Romans 3 The law here is meant to show us our short commings, so that we make seek atonement, not remind us we will never make the cut. The point of the Law being that no one is or ever will be good enough, so that an honest/humble person seeks atonement with a contrite heart.
