Okay...let me see if I can do this.... easy....
The five qualities I listed, separate who serves and who is served.
These five basic attributes denote, whose will shall prevail.
God is the Almighty....because His will cannot be set aside.
I believe in spiritual life.
I suspect spiritual life to be more than this life....and could be eternal.
Who's in charge?
Is there conflict in Heaven as there is here, in this life?
Where you 'fit in' is determined by what you say, and do.
What you have said or done, will draw to you....kindred spirits.
(Some people call this Karma....some people call it justice....)
And for now it does seem....God is sitting back....watching how this develops.
Of course if you have no inclination to an afterlife....then you are dust.
And this discussion will fade when you do.
BTW...I happen to be rogue theologian.
My relationship with other prophets cannot be assumed.
It seems you are suggesting the universe has a loose, but definite structure dependant upon individual abilities. And those who are more skilled dominate over those who are less skilled. Is this it?
I certainly mean no offense to you, so please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't understand what you are saying. Your posts are a bit cryptic. And there is nothing "wrong" with that necessarily, but it is not effective communication, at least not for someone slow and dull like me.
For example, your indication that you believe in sprititual life is clear, straightforward and understandable. But I get really lost after that.
Who is in charge you ask. However, didn't you already state somewhere earlier that you believe God, being bigger, stronger, faster and more experienced than everyone else, is in charge?
Next, you ask if there is conflict in heaven. Seems pretty straightforward, and if we reject the conventional notion of heaven as a place of reward, of "Peace in the Valley", then certainly, it is possible that heaven is a place of conflict where we strive to dominate others, or at least challenge others, in order to "fit in", as you put it, closer to God, closer to the top, I suppose. But if that is your view, or something similar to it, then why use the word "heaven"? Heaven implies bliss and happiness. And if you disagree with that, then I think our definitions of certain ideas are so vastly different that we probably wouldn't reach any practical understanding of each other anyway. Which is fine. Doesn't mean we couldn't play darts and have some drinks together sometime. But while I realize there are alternative definitions for the word, "Heaven", such as the skies and/or the firmament--for example: "Look to the heavens and see the eagle soar"--when someone uses it in the context of God's abode, it usually implies something different than what you have envisioned as possible.
Next, I am really lost on this idea of drawing "kindred spirits" to one's self. Since you have utilized the word, "Karma", I believe that to be some sort of divine justice in which every human thought and/or action brings about a universal response, with good human actions eliciting good universal responses and bad human actions eliciting bad responses from the universe. But how this fits in with all the other, I apologize again for my dullness, but I just don't understand.
Further, you suggest that God is an inactive observer of his creation. Fine, I sort of hold a similar view. I don't see a lot of evidence that God is interacting with mankind or even responding to stimuli from his creations. People claim their illness was miraculously cured by God through prayer, but I've also witnessed people "miraculously" cured from illness without ever imploring God's intervention. While, on the other hand, I've seen people pray endlessly for a cure to an illness only to watch a loved one die anyway. Maybe God answers, but I don't see much evidence of it, not when balanced out by the cases that get absolutely no response from God at all.
However, you seem to imply that if I or any other person is disinclined to an afterlife, then we don't have to endure it. I don't know why anyone would make such a choice, but is that what you're saying? That I can simply choose now or in the future, maybe at the time of death, to forego the afterlife?
And one last thing, I don't understand your comment that one shouldn't assume your relationship to other prophets. Does this mean you consider yourself a prophet? And if so, do you mean in the sense that you have divine knowledge of future events? Maybe that is not what you mean by referring to "other" prophets, but if you do believe there are prophets, people who receive divine knowledge of future events, wouldn't that mean that God is not just sitting back as you earlier indicated? Wouldn't that mean God is at least communicating knowledge of the future to some people?
Finally, believe me, I try never to assume anything about anyone, whether on this forum or elsewhere. When I conceded a Biblical model of the universe in an earlier post, it wasn't an effort to better understand your position but it was an effort to better explain mine, which I apologize for doing so poorly.
