07-08-2022, 04:14 PM
(07-08-2022, 03:18 PM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: Indeed, I believe that good comes from within, and that most evil (not all) is an external influence. I suspect you may have seen your share of exceptions to that rule, but the point remains. There is no doubt (in my mind anyway) there is a divine component to good. As a Physicist, even I have to acknowledge there comes a point where the physical and mental construct around us can no longer be explained with a mathematical equation. To parse that statement down and fully explain it would take more lines of text than this server (or any server) can offer. But to the point of the OP and the subsequent post, there are two divergent paths, one good and one not. At present society seems to be drifting towards the wrong path.
I believe in the good, hence the "fire" reference (which, to some I'm sure, seems counter-intuitive).
I agree with your stance on religion. Religion immediately kills any hope of developing a relationship of any kind with the creator. Religion locks God in a box, and makes him what they want him to be, this error often goes unnoticed by worshipers. It makes their relationship with the creator about them, not about God. It is all about what they do or don't do, not realizing that this thought means they can control what the creator is, thinks and does. An obvious error if they give any real thought to what they are doing.
God is either omnipotent, which means that he is God, not much more can be added to that, or he is, god, a power that can be defined, manipulated, and used.
I think this mistake is why so many people feel rejected, deceived, hopeless, and abandoned. They are putting their faith in a god with a little "G".
Just my opinion.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
