Hi Matthew
Quote:Alan,
I don't believe God is both good and evil, rather, I believe that evil exists as a result of free will, with people choosing to be/act in an unloving manner. God, I believe is the embodiment of love, and it appears that God allows evil/darkness to exist in the planes of our existence
In my way of thinking, this does not mean that God wants an evil agenda to win the day, rather, he lets his creations choose as they will, and the polar opposites are created. Eventually, however, I believe that spiritual evolution allows people to move closer to love, and therefore God.
The problem with that understanding is the very free will we have and the terrible misuse by humanity of this most precious gift. Look at society, there has never been even one day in all recorded history when there was not a war going on. It seems to me, that all through human history, the world of mostly good folk have been held in ransom by a few evil depraved despots
At some point, I feel God will have to come in and limit this free will for our own benifit
In the Book of Isaiah chapter 29 verse20 it reads, “For the Terrible One” is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off.
Who is this Terrible one?, if it is evil or the Devil or the agents of evil we can take heart that at the end good will prevail forever, and our beautiful universe will become a place of light and death will be no more
Light of Love
Quote: Alan,
If you want to take a scientific approach to this subject some physicists are speculating on the theory that the greater consciousness (God) is not really infinite, but only appears to be infinite. This greater consciousness evolved into what it is... a brilliant being of love. The premise is what you and Dave were discussing a year or so ago. Primordial consciousness contained entropy and evolved into a huge brilliant being of love by reducing its entropy.
In my opinion, this makes sense. We are like worker bees continuing the process of reducing entropy. We are a teeny tiny piece of and the whole of this greater consciousness (God/Light) at the same time. As we reduce our entropy (Darkness) by releasing fear and ego we grow spiritually and we become more of a being of love both as an individualized unit of consciousness and the greater consciousness of which we are a piece of. By doing so we not only aid our own personal evolution, but also that of the whole consciousness system. Light and darkness are metaphors of consciousness that help describe different states of consciousness.
It is hard I agree to try to understand a being of infinite everything. But that being might have no difficulty with that concept.
Your entropy equates nicely with my Darkness and it is these to beings one of almost infinite power but dark and one of almost infinite power but light love. As an Engineer I understand entropy very well if it could be reversed in this material realm then we could exist in it as immortals, in everlasting light.
At present neither the dark evil one or the good one of light are totally infinite, thus my supposition of the battle for infinite eternity between the two opposites. The outcome still hangs in the balance, the winner BECOMING INFINITE
hawkeye
You can go on and forgive Hitler if you like, I am sure God has not . God is quite able to hate you know and him hate is terrible. It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of God. You believe in God and in that you do well, but so does Satan and he trembles