(February 26, 2016 at 7:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 6:46 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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
I don't know why. For whatever reason, He thought 2000 years ago was the right time to make Himself man and point us to the right direction. I'm ok with not knowing all of God's motives.
"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