A
challenge from a skeptic - Part 2.
4. What LOVING GOD would condemn people for being of a different
faith? (there is around 33 million different faiths in India alone)
No loving God has ever condemned
anyone for this. Only the false image, the man-made image, the idol,
the golden calf of an angry and judgmental God seems to condemn people
for being of a different religion. As I explained elsewhere,
there are many true religions on this planet. God, or rather the Ascended
Host, have given a number of true and valid religions. The goal of giving
a true religion is to give people a vehicle for attaining the higher
state of consciousness that I call the Christ consciousness. This allows
them to enter the kingdom of Heaven, which is an inner kingdom, meaning
that it is a state of consciousness.
Imagine that humankind suddenly became aware of a giant asteroid headed
for Earth and realized it would destroy the entire planet. People build
a giant spaceship that can hold every human being on Earth. At the appointed
time, everyone travels to the spaceship and enters it. People use any
means of transportation available to them to reach the spaceship. After
everyone is safely aboard the ship, it blasts off. As people are moving
away from the Earth, they see the asteroid hit this planet and blow
it to pieces. At that moment, does it matter whether you used a bicycle,
a car, a plane or any other means of transportation to reach the spaceship?
No, all that matters is that you got to the space ship and that you
are now on board.
The purpose of religion is to bring you into the kingdom of Heaven.
Once you are here, it truly does not matter which outer vehicle you
used to get here. It is only people who are trapped in the relativity
and duality of the carnal mind who become attached to a particular outer
vehicle. It is only people who are trapped in the lowest aspects of
the carnal mind, and therefore have an insatiable desire for power,
who have the mindset that there is only one true religion and that they
need to force all others to join that religion. This however is no fault
of God, but the result of the fact that people have chosen to misuse
the free will that is their unique gift from God. Do not fault the giver
of the gift for the misuse of the gift by the recipient.
5. What perfect GOD would create an imperfect creation?
A perfect God who wanted
to create a universe that is inhabited by living beings who serve as
co-creators. A God who has no desire to create robots that can only
blindly follow our rules. You can read more about this in the following
discourse.
In reality, God did not create an imperfect world. God created a universe
that is based on a set of timeless principles, and those principles
ensure that the universe is sustainable and will evolve in a harmonious
and balanced manner. The laws of nature, the laws of God, are set up
to ensure balanced growth.
When God gave beings free will, he inevitably gave them the ability
to violate the principles upon which the universe is based. When people
did so, they created a localized imbalance on this planet. Because God
respects his Law of Free Will, he allows people to do this on a temporary
basis because he knows that eventually the imbalance will be corrected
by the laws of nature. People can violate the laws of God only for so
long. They will eventually create such a great imbalance that it is
no longer sustainable, and therefore their civilization will self-destruct
and balance will be restored.
It is the misuse of God’s law that has created the state of imbalance
that you currently see manifest as human suffering on this planet. However,
that state of imbalance was not created by God. It was created by human
beings who misused their free will to go against the laws that God has
set up for their protection and survival. Do not fault the giver of
the gift for the misuse of the gift by the recipient.
6. If we are to suffer pain and death by the all-forgiving
GOD through Adam and Eve eating an apple? Why is SATAN allowed to
bring evil to the world? (We get death..for the sin of eating an apple,
yet Satan is still around to work his evil.) Some people give the
answer we chose free choice or something like that..well it was GOD’S
free choice to allow evil to exist in the first place, it was God’s
free choice to allow his creation to know temptation....why would
god do this)
You are not suffering the
consequences of the sin committed by Adam and Eve. As explained elsewhere,
Adam and Eve are simply symbols for what has happened to every soul
on Earth. The forbidden fruit was a state of consciousness, namely what
I call the carnal mind. It is dominated by the relative concepts, the
dualistic concepts, of good and evil. Souls chose to partake of that
state of consciousness before they were ready to do so, and therefore
they lost their connection to the spiritual realm and became trapped
in the lower state of consciousness.
When people are trapped in this lower state of consciousness, they will
knowingly or unknowingly violate the laws of God, and therefore a great
imbalance has been created on this planet. It is this imbalance that
has allowed Satan an inroad on this planet and into the consciousness
of human beings. God did not allow this. Human beings allowed it by
creating the imbalanced conditions and the imbalanced state of consciousness
which caused the vibration of the entire planet to be lowered.
When the Earth was created by Elohim, everything expressed the perfection
of the laws of God. As a result, the entire planet vibrated at such
a high level that there was no opening for any dark forces to enter
the energy field of this planet. When humankind began to misuse their
free will, they generated mental and emotional energy of a lower vibration.
Over many generations, this lowered the vibration of the energy field
of the entire planet, and as a result dark forces could now enter what
had previously been an impenetrable fortress of spiritual energy.
As explained elsewhere,
God did not allow evil to exist. Evil is the result of a choice. God
did give his creation free will. But God never wanted souls to misuse
their free will to go against the basic laws that sustain the universe.
God chose to give his sons and daughters free will because it is the
only way by which they can consciously grow to a higher state of consciousness
and thereby become co-creators with him. You cannot give a being free
will without giving it the option to violate the laws of the universe.
Beings who violate those laws will eventually self-destruct, and obviously
this is not what God wants. God wants his co-creators to express their
free will within the context of the laws that sustain the universe.
By showing that they would be faithful over a few things, God would
later make them rulers over many things, so that they could create their
own universes and their own laws.
Temptation is an inevitable part of free will. Yet God gave his sons
and daughters all the tools possible to help them use their free will
wisely. I can tell you that the vast majority of God's co-creators did
not fall into temptation. Planet Earth is simply temporarily the abode
of a large number of souls who did fall for the temptation to misuse
their free will.
7. What perfect loving God would allow children to suffer
in pain/disease? Why would God allow this?? (After all children have
no knowledge of God until they are indoctrinated into a faith.)
God has not created any of
the suffering of children or adults. God created a perfect planet, and
he sent a number of souls here with the command to take dominion over
the Earth. What is not expressed in the Bible is that in order to take
dominion over the Earth, you must first take dominion over your own
mind.
It is through the mind that people act as co-creators. Because people
chose not to take dominion over the mind, they fell into the relative,
dualistic state of consciousness that I call the carnal mind. Over a
very long period of time, we are talking millions of years, people have
gradually created the current conditions on this planet. It is these
conditions that are responsible for all of the suffering you see on
Earth.
God did not create these conditions. Human beings created the conditions.
God cannot uncreate these conditions without violating the Law of Free
Will. Human beings must uncreate those conditions by rising out of the
carnal mind and putting on the mind of Christ.
In reality, most children are born with a knowledge of God. They are
also born with the need to bear what they have created in past
lives, and it is those karmic conditions that cause their suffering
in this life. However, those conditions are the consequences of choices
they made, not choices made by God.
I realize this can sound harsh, but the brutal reality of life on this
planet is that God did not create suffering. Therefore, the current
conditions will not improve until people wake up, take responsibility
for their self-created misery and decide to use their free will to change
things for the better. Religion is meant to give people the tools to
do this. Yet as you correctly point out, many religions have been perverted
and serve only to keep people in an ignorant and passive state of mind.
However, that is not the creation of God, but the creation of a few
people who misuse religion to gain power over the rest of the population.
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