My Supreme Being or God Don't Give A Sh*t he's busy running the Universe!!

by frankiespeakin 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  Narkissos

  Frankie,

  That's about exactly the point of Yhwh's (non-)response to Job in chapters 38--41.

  The trajectory of Wisdom in the Bible (and other ancient literature) is fascinating in this respect. In older "Wisdom," everything that happens the gods do. Use your senses and mind to find yourself on the brighter side as often as possible, but you will never totally "get it" anyway: you're bound to fail sometimes and it's no big deal.

  Mix that with monotheistic "revelation," a dualistic sense of moral right and wrong, absolute justice and retribution, and you get Job's friends.

  Reinscribing mystery into revelation is the only way for Wisdom to survive (or resurge), as it does in Job (and differently in Qoheleth-Ecclesiastes).

  But that's a rather frustrating version of God and customers keep on shopping.
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  frankiespeakin

  Nark,

  I'll take a while to chew on that one, it is definitely interesting when one can approach it from that perspective.

  What would even make the human imagination invent these things about god is interesting,,and should be revealing.
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  frankiespeakin

  I see it as a mental trap to view a biblical god who is watching your every move,, and who expect you to always worship him in your heart by both thoughts and deeds.

  Depending what is further indoctrinated by religious belief systems this can be very harmful as we see this has been the case in the history that comes along with the authorized or non authorized holy writ. Its full manipulative effect depending on the motivations and imaginations of those using it,,more control of the masses, would be a plus force for its long survival into our modern times..
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  frankiespeakin

  I see it as a plus in society when a person can think beyond the biblical deity, to a more benign deity, and then perhaps why is there even a need for a deity at all, and expand even beyond that what ever that is.