Welcome to the World of Christianity (by Harry McCall)
As a Christian, you are now following THE supreme God who created the universe. The main facts you need to know are these:
Your God is omnipotent (Having unlimited power and authority).
Your God is omnipresent (He is present everywhere).
Your God is omniscient (Having total knowledge).
Your God commands billions of angels of which just one could destroy the world.
As a Christian, you are part of a large and diverse group totaling over 2.1 billion members that has a worldwide budget that totals approximately one half of a trillion dollars.
Satan (a fallen angel) is your main and only adversary who leads a small rag-tag army (1/3 the size of God's) of fallen angels (demons).
Satan has limited power (Only what little control God gives him).
Satan has no earthly members (Just a few "Dabblers").
Satan has no budget.
AND YET...
According to God's own word, the Bible (especially the Book of Revelation), God, with all the above supreme attributes, is losing a battle He created and even sacrificed His only begotten son to win.
For instance, most of humanity will one day stand before your God at the Great White Throne of Judgment to "give an account" of why they as mortal sinful creatures with limited understandings, screwed up, and then they will be cast into a Lake of Fire (whose smoke rises forever), i.e., blamed for their loss of innocence and (and/or their great great great ancestor's loss of innocence) for all eternity.
HOW ARE WE TO MAKE SENSE OF ALL OF THE ABOVE?
It is a divine Mystery. (A theological term employed by the Catholic Church to depict the lack of understanding we mere mortals have of God's ways.)
Harry McCall (former ministerial student, whose testimony appears in Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists)
P.S., Liberal Christians and universalists may disagree with some of the above "welcome" statements, however, Christian philosopher Victor Reppert at his blog, "Dangerous Idea" has tangled with the question of how a finite being like Satan could be racking up so many souls compared with God who has an infinite amount of resources and wisdom as His disposal.
Your God is omnipresent (He is present everywhere).
Your God is omniscient (Having total knowledge).
Your God commands billions of angels of which just one could destroy the world.
As a Christian, you are part of a large and diverse group totaling over 2.1 billion members that has a worldwide budget that totals approximately one half of a trillion dollars.
Satan (a fallen angel) is your main and only adversary who leads a small rag-tag army (1/3 the size of God's) of fallen angels (demons).
Satan has limited power (Only what little control God gives him).
Satan has no earthly members (Just a few "Dabblers").
Satan has no budget.
AND YET...
According to God's own word, the Bible (especially the Book of Revelation), God, with all the above supreme attributes, is losing a battle He created and even sacrificed His only begotten son to win.
For instance, most of humanity will one day stand before your God at the Great White Throne of Judgment to "give an account" of why they as mortal sinful creatures with limited understandings, screwed up, and then they will be cast into a Lake of Fire (whose smoke rises forever), i.e., blamed for their loss of innocence and (and/or their great great great ancestor's loss of innocence) for all eternity.
HOW ARE WE TO MAKE SENSE OF ALL OF THE ABOVE?
It is a divine Mystery. (A theological term employed by the Catholic Church to depict the lack of understanding we mere mortals have of God's ways.)
Harry McCall (former ministerial student, whose testimony appears in Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists)
P.S., Liberal Christians and universalists may disagree with some of the above "welcome" statements, however, Christian philosopher Victor Reppert at his blog, "Dangerous Idea" has tangled with the question of how a finite being like Satan could be racking up so many souls compared with God who has an infinite amount of resources and wisdom as His disposal.
2 comments:
According to God's own word, the Bible (especially the Book of Revelation), God, with all the above supreme attributes, is losing a battle
No wonder we are losing the war in Iraq. Bush is asking a god for help that can't even win his own battles.
God's ways are not our ways...and why not I ask? Why does he have to be so mysterious and misleading? If Christians would really look at this without giving their god so much leeway and so many excuses to "operate" his ways thye might be persuaded to give up the god of their imagination.
Making excuses for your children's behavior (he's tired, she didn't know it was wrong, he had too much sugar, she is a good girl mixed up in the wrong crowd) makes for bad children who know they can get away with anything (if they have the right excuse).
I think making excuses for god's behavior is a copout that allows Christians to keep on believing. I think it makes for a "bad God."
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