Tre-L
Two Tears In a Bucket
Some would call me religious based on my belief in God. Even so, belief in a power greater than self hardly suggests that one is religious. God is far from being an imaginary friend also. I think we experience God in as much as we are able to know and experience love, and as much as we allow ourselves to experience life itself.
I think life stems from God, and that all things in life reflect his nature. Perhaps God in his entirety is both good and evil. Then again, good and evil are quite subjective to each individual, so perhaps it would be better said that God is both creative and destructive (Pleasant and unpleasant).
Much like God, mankind can be both good and evil, or rather we are able to create and destroy. Nothing is inherently good, nor is anything inherently evil as these terms are not absolute. They are relative being that we as humans experience them subjectively.
Man tends to cater to either the destructive force in life (Evil) or to the creative force in live (Good) and we do so out of the desires of our hearts. Even so, sometimes destruction is necessary in order to create. Does this make the destructive force in life evil, or simply unpleasant for some?
If you take a blank canvas and paint a picture on it, you have effectively destroyed the canvas, yet at the same time you have created something in the process. This is how I view good and evil. They are non existent except in the minds of each individual, yet they are very real aspects of life.
God is the same way. God exists in the hearts and minds of mankind, but not all are able to recognize God as being something real. This does not diminish his reality in any way, it only shows us that we have different perceptions when it comes to his existence. For some God is a mere concept, for others He is the reason we have life at all.
For instance, I believe God is all things existing "I Am All in All and All things". God to me is both the creative force in life, and the destructive force in life, and we (Being made in His image) are able to tap into these forces, and live accordingly.
Jesus just so happened to show us how to tap into the creative side of life, which is the only force mankind needs to concern ourselves with. Love lends itself to creation, whereas hate and indifference lends itself to destruction and/or placidity.
I believe we were meant to grow, create, procreate, and live our lives with a genuine love for our fellow man and for all living things. Otherwise we will never advance as a species 'spiritually', nor will we be able to live the life we were meant to one day experience.
3L
I think life stems from God, and that all things in life reflect his nature. Perhaps God in his entirety is both good and evil. Then again, good and evil are quite subjective to each individual, so perhaps it would be better said that God is both creative and destructive (Pleasant and unpleasant).
Much like God, mankind can be both good and evil, or rather we are able to create and destroy. Nothing is inherently good, nor is anything inherently evil as these terms are not absolute. They are relative being that we as humans experience them subjectively.
Man tends to cater to either the destructive force in life (Evil) or to the creative force in live (Good) and we do so out of the desires of our hearts. Even so, sometimes destruction is necessary in order to create. Does this make the destructive force in life evil, or simply unpleasant for some?
If you take a blank canvas and paint a picture on it, you have effectively destroyed the canvas, yet at the same time you have created something in the process. This is how I view good and evil. They are non existent except in the minds of each individual, yet they are very real aspects of life.
God is the same way. God exists in the hearts and minds of mankind, but not all are able to recognize God as being something real. This does not diminish his reality in any way, it only shows us that we have different perceptions when it comes to his existence. For some God is a mere concept, for others He is the reason we have life at all.
For instance, I believe God is all things existing "I Am All in All and All things". God to me is both the creative force in life, and the destructive force in life, and we (Being made in His image) are able to tap into these forces, and live accordingly.
Jesus just so happened to show us how to tap into the creative side of life, which is the only force mankind needs to concern ourselves with. Love lends itself to creation, whereas hate and indifference lends itself to destruction and/or placidity.
I believe we were meant to grow, create, procreate, and live our lives with a genuine love for our fellow man and for all living things. Otherwise we will never advance as a species 'spiritually', nor will we be able to live the life we were meant to one day experience.
3L