Cheers for your replies everyone!!
It crossed my mind after I posted the haphazardness of statistical data, or at least the agenda attached to anyone prophecying a Bible code.
I guess I was just thinking about the whole God thing. I find God the most puzzling of creatures. As much as I would like to put my total trust and belief in this Guy, i cant help but wonder at the banality of the way in which He has organised things down here.
I get the sense that were not getting the whole picture from him, for what reason I cannot really imagine, for so much seems to be incomprehensible, full of paradoxes if you question too much.
Here you have this Grand Creator who in in His absolute perfection, knowing the alpha and the omega, the end result from the beginning - ??? - and yet i would have thought from my illogical human perspective, even though apparently i am made in the image of Him, albeit with half my nature full of flaws, that it was a tad unwise to create everything like this and so bloody confusing.
Why doesn't He just give us the whole picture in one simple go, rather than some complicated long winded book which in total is hard to decipher its / His complete meaning and life purpose for us?
If He knew from His nature that everything was going to cock up from the end, in our beginning, why on earth do it and further expect us to comprehensively understand it? What banality!!
Frankly I'm getting tired of all this - did God really want me to end up an agnostic?
If he was perfect, that is knowing all things even that which is totally beyond our human comprehension, surely He could have come up with another way of doing things which inevitably would be fairer to us down here, even maintaining freewill still. if it is impossible for Him to lie, then why in His infinite wisdom didn't He do it all differently rather than setting us up to fail in the first place.
I was only born in 1966. As far as i know this is the first time I've been on this planet, but streuth, how the hell am I to make sense of all this mess.
If I am made in His image, therefore a reflection of what is above, so below, just looking at myself therefore, and God doesn't appear to be as great as some make out. If someone does a really shoddy job of something, do we in turn look to this person and tell them the truth or a white lie? What purpose is being served to meet out all this un-nessarsary pain and suffering on peoples around the earth?
How do I respect someone for creating something even in perfection which has obvious flaws in it?
Does God have a mother? I know I have one. I know I am supposed to be made as a human in His image, then that being the case, does He have a mum too? I wonder what she is like and wonder whether yet she has clipped Him across the ear for being a naughty boy?
assuming the mother hypothesis to be incorrect, what about the other side of God? Does God have a flawed nature? Does he have a darker side to Him that He doesn't want any of us to know about? And if so, what does that represent?
Now there is this thing called the consciousness of humanity living on the earth, but not content to wonder alone at our own nature without God coming into the equation, the most puzzling thing is understanding the nature of this intangible invisible presence apparently called God. But He is outside of me, therefore must I think about the thinking behind thinking to understand my own relationship to myself and any relationship with a greater unseen invisible being.
Two guys I respected in the Bible the most, King Solomon the party animal and womaniser, lucky sod and Jesus Christ. Much as i find His father bewildering to say the least, at least Jesus comes across as a far more understandable fellow. I still think He's pretty cool.
Am i condemned to hell, sheol for my confusion in my life? Was i right to question as much as i did?
My giddy aunt, what on earth is the point of it all?
To all those feeling sad at the moment I pass on my warmth, encouragement and motivation to keep looking at the bright side of life.
celtic
