(February 26, 2016 at 6:46 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 6:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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.
That's not precisely what I meant, I'll try again.
Your claim is that Jesus led us to a better, clearer understand of God. My question is: Why couldn't God have made himself understood right from the beginning? Surely a Being with the ability to create the Universe in a trice could have implanted into the minds of his favoured creations, 'Slavery is wrong.' Why didn't he?
Boru
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