cambridge79
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i think the idea of prophets it's completely irreconcilable with the idea that god loves us equally and that he wanted to spread his word.
[note to readers: i will use Jesus as an example here but it would work exactly the same with all other prophets ]
It can be that their revelation was intended only to a very selected group of people ( like i assume Jews believe ) in wich case i can get their point and that's fine by me.
but if we assume that their message was intended for the whole world to hear, like for example christians and muslims tend to believe, i think the two things can't work togheter.
Let's take Jesus for example:
If his message was intended for the whole world why wouldn't god spawn a different Jesus ( feel free to call he/she with different names ) in every continent preaching the very same things?
Instead what happened was exactly the opposite.
He kept spawning prophets ( from Abrham to Muhammad ) all in a tiny region of the world ( where each one must have for sure had the opportunity to hear about the former teachings ) all saying things conflicting with each others so much that 3 different major religions all arised from the same area ( let's ignore for a moment that they also tried multiple time to wipe them out mutually during history ) while you would assume that the purpose of a god spreading his word would be to have the same religion spawn in different corners of the world at the same time.
The message of Jesus for example originated in middle east in the year 0.
Americans had to wait around 1492 years in total oblivious before the first american was brought the knowledge of such prophet. Australians had to wait up until 1770 before someone came to them telling "hey you know, there's this guy Jesus that is the son of god" 1770 years living a godless pagan life when the rest of the world already had the opportunity to hear about the lord. why would god keep them in the dark while the rest of the world could enjoy his message? that's a completely unefficient way of communicating.
I can only come up with three reasonable explanation for that, if you can come up with a fourth or more please do:
1 - such a revelation was intended only for the very group of people living in Jesus area of preaching, wich would deny that religions are intended for the whole world.
2 - God cared less about people like australians, or americans, Japanese, people living in pacific island and all the remotes places on earth, wich would deny the fact that he loves us all equally giving us same opportunity to achieve a good afterlife.
3 - Jesus can be a guide but you don't necessarely need to follow him to be a godly man, wich would deny the role religions claim to have.
[note to readers: i will use Jesus as an example here but it would work exactly the same with all other prophets ]
It can be that their revelation was intended only to a very selected group of people ( like i assume Jews believe ) in wich case i can get their point and that's fine by me.
but if we assume that their message was intended for the whole world to hear, like for example christians and muslims tend to believe, i think the two things can't work togheter.
Let's take Jesus for example:
If his message was intended for the whole world why wouldn't god spawn a different Jesus ( feel free to call he/she with different names ) in every continent preaching the very same things?
Instead what happened was exactly the opposite.
He kept spawning prophets ( from Abrham to Muhammad ) all in a tiny region of the world ( where each one must have for sure had the opportunity to hear about the former teachings ) all saying things conflicting with each others so much that 3 different major religions all arised from the same area ( let's ignore for a moment that they also tried multiple time to wipe them out mutually during history ) while you would assume that the purpose of a god spreading his word would be to have the same religion spawn in different corners of the world at the same time.
The message of Jesus for example originated in middle east in the year 0.
Americans had to wait around 1492 years in total oblivious before the first american was brought the knowledge of such prophet. Australians had to wait up until 1770 before someone came to them telling "hey you know, there's this guy Jesus that is the son of god" 1770 years living a godless pagan life when the rest of the world already had the opportunity to hear about the lord. why would god keep them in the dark while the rest of the world could enjoy his message? that's a completely unefficient way of communicating.
I can only come up with three reasonable explanation for that, if you can come up with a fourth or more please do:
1 - such a revelation was intended only for the very group of people living in Jesus area of preaching, wich would deny that religions are intended for the whole world.
2 - God cared less about people like australians, or americans, Japanese, people living in pacific island and all the remotes places on earth, wich would deny the fact that he loves us all equally giving us same opportunity to achieve a good afterlife.
3 - Jesus can be a guide but you don't necessarely need to follow him to be a godly man, wich would deny the role religions claim to have.
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