RE: A new understanding to an old premise
July 26, 2013 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 3:43 pm by Simon Moon.)
(July 24, 2013 at 2:33 pm)Drich Wrote: Maybe the 'deficiency' is ours and not God's. In that we need a space/deception that allows us to make an uninfluenced honest decision about our heart true desire, as to the nature of where we want to spend eternity.
Think about it. if you got to stare down the pit of hell and then look to boundless treasures (God's Glory) God had to offer. anyone with any desire for self perservation and the ablity to lie to them self would choose God over hell. Then the question becomes how long will they be content with God before their true feelings would surface? a year? a Billion years? A trillion years? Even after 900 trillion years we would not have put a dent in eternity. We do know by Satan's example that at some point we will surcumb to pride as he did and will want that seperation and will be willing to risk Hell for it.
So why not place all of us in the realm/matrix hidden from the automatic knoweledge of God's Glory or the absolute terrors of Hell, and allow our hearts the 80 or so years it needs to simply play out what it really wants. (Give those who want to know the knoweledge to make the desision they have been given and allow the rest to surround themselves with whatever they wish.)
So when you stand before God on the day of your final judgement and He judges you sheep or Goat, Wheat or Weed, yu will know beyond doubt that his judgement is absolute and just.
Again God could created us and seperated us then and there, but He gave us this life to prove to ourselves who we are so when we find ourselves in Heaven or Hell we wont be able to lie to ourselves and say we are more than what we are.
Oh, so 'God' created the entire universe as a giant 'Soul Filtering Machine".
From here on out lets call it the 'Soul Selector 2000'.
So, 'God' designed us with a deficiency, knowing all along the many of us will not make it past the Soul Selector 2000? Why would he do this?
I once read a biography of Alfred Hitchcock. In it he described his film making process, in which every scene, camera shot, line, etc was already designed by Hitch before filming even started. If the movie turned out bad, he didn't blame his characters, he blamed himself as the designer of the film. But yet your god is not to blame for his creations? And that doesn't sound silly to you?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
