RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power.
January 10, 2013 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2013 at 5:23 pm by Brian37.)
(January 10, 2013 at 5:07 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote:(January 10, 2013 at 4:55 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: The real question is, why, as a Christian, would you not want to end the earth?
After all, Christian dogma states that this life is a quick (70 years or so) stopover on the way to eternal life with 'God', right?
As a Christian, ending the earth would solve many problems.
1. All Christians would immediately go to heaven. Why would you want to delay that?
2. Infants would instantly go to heaven. Why would you want to take the chance that they may be corrupted by 'evil' and end up in hell? Better to assure they go to heaven by ending their lives early, right?
3. The vast majority of those of us destined for eternal suffering, will not be 'saved' in our lifetimes. The few that might get 'saved' are offset by the infants that might become corrupted.
As a Christian. what are the downsides?
We can't upsurp Gods authority over one life let alone millions.
See if you can spot the pattern?
"We can't usurp the authority of Allah"
"We can't usurp the authority of Vishnu"
"We can't usurp the authority of Yahweh"
"We can't usurp the authority of Osirus"
"We can't usurp the authority of "The Force".
The difference between the authority in civil pluralistic reality, is that we can subject our leaders to review and hold them to account.
Once you claim a divine power, pick any of the list above, you have subjected yourself to the slavery of a utopia, and are not accepting our common reality, but merely are in want of a super hero.
