(February 26, 2016 at 6:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Well for one thing, Jesus coming helped change the people's understanding of God. When before we believed God was all for an eye for an eye, for example, we learned from Jesus that He actually isn't. He's about forgiveness and loving our enemies.
Other than that, I think as time goes on we (as the Christian faith) grow and learn, and are constantly coming to new realizations and in turn, a better understanding.
And it doesn't trouble you even a little that an all-powerful Being took a couple of thousand years to get people to understand what he was really like? I'm sorry, but that's a mug's game. If it isn't God that has changed but only our understanding of him, then generation after generation went about doing the wrong things, and causing immeasurate suffering along the way. Any reason God couldn't have sorted it out from go? Think of all the needless pain and misery that could have been averted had the Ten Commandments been replaced with the Beatitudes.
Boru
Well we still don't fully understand. And we never will... at least not until we die and meet Him. But I do think at least overall, it will continue to be a slow, forward moving process as it always has been.
Do I have a problem with that? No. I'm ok with not understanding why God does certain things the way He does. (goes to show, again, we are still far from fully understanding Him). I'm not God, I can't see the whole universe, I can't see past, present, and future at all once. I'm just one little human living in a tiny part of the universe for a tiny fraction of eternity. And so of course I'm not going to understand all the motivations of someone who knows everything and can see everything. Why should I think I know better? I don't know everything He knows, and I'm ok with that. I'm ok with not being at the top of the totem pole.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
