I just recently finished reading a book called Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown. It was an amazing book and I would recommend it to anyone who can appreciate an educational fiction novel. It opened up my mind to a lot of ideas. New ways of thinking. It sort of built off of some thoughts I was already having. I've never been the kind of person to believe everything I hear. Actually, I hardly ever believe anything I hear. Especially when it comes to God.
Don't get me wrong, I believe in and love God with every fiber of my being. But I never want to be a brainwashed believer. I know God created this universe using Gods own master plan. God made each and every one of us just exactly the way God wanted to. That, I have no doubt about. It's something I could never deny. But I become troubled when I get to the Bible and Jesus.
Gods power and being is unfathomable. To think that we, as humans could ever understand him, is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Our minds are so limited and miniscule. To say that you understand God is to undermine the very essence of Gods existence.
The first step to love is fear? I disagree. I love God because of the beauty and perfection of its being. I don't need eternal damnation to motivate me to love my God. The church however, survives on the sole idea of hell. Fear is not the first step to love. Fear is the first step to getting you to blindly follow the church. And I'm not bashing a certain religion here, all religions thrive off of fear.
Its human nature to ignore something until it becomes beneficial to you. Religion would not exist today unless it promised eternal paradise for good deeds, and damnation in hell for not following the religion.
The Holy Bible. Supposedly the word of God. Written completely by man. Is this not setting limits on God? Is this not putting a face on a God that has no gender, no race, no end? Am I supposed to believe and follow a book that was written by men that lived hundreds of years ago. Is that what faith is supposed to be?
I always wonder if this pleases God or angers God. Are humans so desperate for deeper meaning and purpose in life that they have to create religion? The one thing that has divided this world from the very beginning of its existence.
Maybe I'm going looney, or thinking too much.
But if these thoughts have any truth to them, then
God help us all.
