See...my thoughts on that are this: It doesn't make sense to me why a God of love would sit back and let people believe what they want. If that were so, then where IS organization going to come to play? And I'm not necessarily talking about organized RELIGION, I'm talking about organization PERIOD. I mean, what's morally wrong and what's morally right? Do morals EXIST? To me, if there's a God (which I believe there is), He would inspire a book about him so people could have a personal relationship with him. If a god does not interact with His people, then how can we find ultimate comfort? I really have no interest, personally, in a god who will isn't personal and who won't let me try and figure him out. 'Cause if all those religions are fine with him, then all of us have contradictory views on God. And if *I* was God, I wouldn't want people mistaking who I was. 'Cause I KNOW who I am. So why would I, if I was God, want to confuse people? That's why I don't believe that all religions are fine with God and are just a human's way to get to God. You know? I like the idea MUCH better that God would come to US. THAT shows he loves us. To me, the other way around, doesn't seem logical if we are defining love. The very fact, to me, that the God I believe in IS personal means that He GAVE us some aspects of him! The very word "personal" comes from "person" so the fact that God is interested in all of our affairs and cares enough about us to NOT let us have the wrong idea about him ('cause logically, wouldn't it be right to assume that God knows he is not BOTH what Hindus and Christians believe? This makes me think that in order to show us HIMSELF in a way WE can understand (which I think is WHY we have not fully discovered all aspects of science), He'd HAVE to get personal. And that, *I* believe, is love. It's almost God's way of PROVING that He is how we love other humans. 'Cause he will almost take the role of a human (a much, higher human...like, God-human, who is not REALLY a human...gah! you know what I'm getting at I trust ;) ) to show us what love really is.
WOW that was long. I'm sorry you had to read that much!
I miss you, Rissa. I miss our religion/what have you debates as well. I DO hope you are doing well and I will ALWAYS remember you. I'm dead serious. :)
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Date: 2003-09-08 08:31 pm (UTC)WOW that was long. I'm sorry you had to read that much!
I miss you, Rissa. I miss our religion/what have you debates as well. I DO hope you are doing well and I will ALWAYS remember you. I'm dead serious. :)
Thank you for the comment. :)
Love love love,
Stephanie