So, if you don't understand God, then why do you think you understand our situation? (I don't mean to attack, and feel free to tell me to shut up, but I really don't understand your point of view and would like to.
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Thank you for the respectful manner in which you are replying.
I'm trying to understand a specific person's situation? Whose is that? I thought I was speaking generally.
Don't you think it's a little messed up that God would ask us to have faith which goes against our core being?
Not really. I believe one of our purposes of comming to this earth is to learn to control our physical impulses and desires. Our physical impulses are more animalistic. We need to rise above it and control our bodies. If we can learn to control them the best we can in this life it will be much easier in the next life after the resurrection. It would be impossible for a person to become perfect and still controlled by their bodies.
I'd like to think that a God like yours would at least give us some good reason that would not ask us to completely escape what makes us human in the first place.
The reason is that in order to attain salvation, perfection, and exhaltation. we must control ourselves. Our physical bodies must become our tools not our masters. There is not way to gain salvation, perfectsion, and exhaltation without mastering our bodies. It's impossible. The only way we can do it is by mastering our physical bodies.
Wouldn't it make more sense for God to give us rules that He would follow himself? He could do it in His infinite power, He could find a way.
God's commandments are for making imperfect things perfect. God can't follow the commandments he gives us because He is already perfect. He doesn't need to improve Himself. God lives by perfection(I guess that's what you could call it). He doesn't need to become perfect so He wouldn't follow a law made for imperfect beings.
It sounds more like "Well, this is the way it is, and everything I made is the way it should be...well, except for this, let's change that...oh, yeah, and that too...OK, so let's not let that guy rape that girl...hmm, I didn't account for that...". If everything was the way it should be, why would God interfere at all?
God's interference is part of the way it should be. There's nothing that He hasn't accounted for. He sees everything in perfection. He has a perfect knowledge of everything. That's why I can't determine God's motives, because I don't have a perfect knowledge. God knows how every tiny factor fits in. Every tiny factor has an influence in what goes on. Sorry, but I have no idea of everything that goes into God's choices. All I can do is accept it, live the commandments the best I can, and trust in His promises.
Either letting bad things happen is the way to go, or stopping them alltogether is. I don't understand the middle ground.
Because the world isn't balck and white. The world is an infinatly complex system of actions and reactions. It is impossible for us to determine exactly what goes on. We can only look at what we see and make determinations off that. So our view is imperfect. God however can see and understand this infinatly complex system and makes perfect actions based on that.
It sounds like there are some specific things you are talking out if you care to mention tham I may be able to exlpain better.
