Sorrow and Rapture
The coming of the Christ. The saving of all those who are faithful. The damning of all those unworthy to serve Him in eternal service. This is what a significant number of Christians believe will occur. How can they believe that a being, a God perhaps, in all of its *infinite* wisdom could decide what is worthy of eternal life and ultimate salvation, or eternal damnation and suffering. I find this line of thought to be rather disturbing. Now, this is entirely my own opinion, so if my line of thought isn’t in agreement with yours, then I apologize. You may criticize my words, but know that I only write this in an attempt t understand how such blind faith works. I’m not saying that your way of thinking is flawed; I’m merely saying that I myself don’t think that way on this subject. To me, a supreme being wouldn’t think it has the power to decide something so significant. I would think it would be with the understanding that nothing can determine such things other than the individual. If someone wants to be saved, then to me they have a chance. I don’t think some higher being will go "You can’t be saved because you didn’t do this!" I don’t think that’s what it would do. I think it would allow people to live out their lives watching them if not doing anything at all, letting them be the masters of their fate as it were. I myself think certain crimes are too high to ever be forgiven, but I don’t think a supreme being would see it that way. I think that it would see every event as something to learn and grow from, to complete yourself as an individual, not something that causes all life after to be meaningless. I also don’t think that a Supreme Being would want to be worship. Whether or not we were made by one entity is yet to be proven, but I feel that if we were then why would it want us to worship it? Does a parent want its children to worship them? Love them perhaps, or accept them as having somewhat more power over them, but far from worshiping. Christians constantly say that we are the children of God and that He made us in his image, if so, then we would in fact be his progeny, meaning to me that we are destined to live by our own rules and our own thoughts, not preparing for death. If all life was simply about preparing for death, then I think existence would be a little bit different. I think we all live to experience life, not to prepare for either eternal damnation or salvation. I don’t believe anyone can do any one thing to warrant eternal salvation. Sure you can help lots of people, stop wars, feed the hungry, cure the sick, but if you think about it that’s what people are supposed to do normally. We’re social creatures after all, and the betterment of the pack should always be high on out lists. So, when Christians, or other religious practitioners state that what I am doing is a sin, or wrong, or will condemn me to hell, I ask them why they think it’s a horrible thing. If things were so horrible that they would cause us unimaginable pain and suffering later, I don’t think they would be here. No parent wants to see their child suffer so much, they want to see us make our own choice, fall and then rise up ourselves once again. So, under the thought that we are Gods children, and he loves all of us, then why would He have such a horrible place as Hell? I think that is completely absurd if you think about that. And also, what parent truly wishes for their child to stay with them forever? Do they not want them to go out into the world and find who they are and do what they, not the parents, want to do? Now of course they’re exceptions to this, but the majority of parents, good parents, would say that they want their kids to live life how they want to. Which makes sense to me, and I think would also make sense to most sensible people. But O NO! I’m wrong, God exists. And He has a plan for us all and he loves us all so much that he wants us to be with him forever, and if we cant do what He wants specifically, then we’re no longer sought after and are discarded unto Hell. Still make sense to anyone? I think not. But, this is just my thought on the matter. I think its sad to put so much faith into something that probably just wants you to be you. I also feel that living life to prepare for death is a sad, and empty experience. You miss out on so much things that way, so many potential memories that could help shape who it is that you are “destined” to become. That’s another thing that kinda erks me, why is it that all monotheistic religious persons seem to think that there’s a specific plan for us? If a supreme being were to do that, then where would choice come into play? Why make something you know all the answers to. There’s no fun in that. So I don’t think that’s the correct way to go about thinking. Again, this is only what I think. If everything was predetermined, then what would the point in life be? There would be no point. Your purpose then simply becomes that; the purpose you have is to fulfill the purpose that someone else set for you, which to me doesn’t seem to fit. People have too many choices about what they can do for that. Life is an adventure, and I believe that no one, not even God almighty, knows just what is going to happen with you. I will conclude my rant with this thought; why have such blind faith in something that one can never truly know unless you accept many variables, when you can just live life how you feel it should be lived and hope for the best when kingdom comes?