Why do you think The God of Jacob (Israel) and Abraham (the only living God) is psychopathic and evil? Have you read the Bible? And I don't mean that snooty or snarky or uppity or anything like that. I was raised Catholic. We were never told to actually READ the Bible.
Have you seen this?
Its a great short video which shows the last verses of Revelation playing out of and in fulfillment of Jesus promise to "make all things new again" the new earth and new heaven ruled by Jesus eternally after judgment. So wonderful..
https://youtu.be/wP-SXkwEpkg
I didn't read or investigate the Bible as a child or in my youth. That didn't happen for me until I became an adult. And I grew up (in my early 20's and 30's)in a sort of haze of arrogant belief that Bible thumpers read Bibles and talk about Jesus. "Holy Rollers are not logical" blah blah blah pseudo intellectual so called "enlightened independent thinking" Progressive nonsense. Kind of like, you are grounded and reasonable and smart and intellectual if you are NOT a Bible thumper and all those "believers" are standing over there like zombies for comedians to make fun of....
And I have to say that it is definitely true that Jesus knows his own because my eyes were not opened by tragedy or some huge life event. I think maybe that could have happened but I may possibly be the densist child of God there is. Nope not for me. The Holy Spirit had to resort to desperate measures. I was literally getting ready for work one day and walking through the door into my bathroom and I was struck by I have no idea what it was but what ever it was it was a very strong feeling and something just put an extremely powerful idea in my mind to go down the path to find a bible and start a journey.
I cannot even begin to tell you the feeling that clicked in my head when I read this
The Beginning. Genesis 1:1
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.…
. Moses, who was supposedly inspired by God to write Genesis over 5000 years ago could not possibly have known the Earth was ever formless and void. Our scientists today believe space dust came together through gravity to form a ball which later formed water and oxygen the building blocks of life.
But to someone who was born into a world that was complete when they were born and knew nothing of space science or satellites to look down to see the big picture, how could he have known the Earth was at one point formless and void? It would seem more logical to me that someone like that would think an all powerful creator would think the Earth into existence already completely formed and full of life without doing it in stages.
The fact that God did it in stages and we now believe it to be true is amazing proof of the divine inspiration of the Bible. Proof in the very first paragraph.
But, back to your comment. We are NOT Gods children so that we can bond with Earth and all its pleasures so that we will want to stay here forever. The Bible clearly points out in Daniel, Ezekiel (Enoch not in a Bible) and most importantly in Revelation, that we are SEPARATED from God by original sin that occurred in the Garden of Eden at the cruel hands of Lucifer/dragon/Satan (Lord of the Earth).
Our ETERNAL home is with GOD not the Lord of the Earth, i.e., and not here on THIS Earth. God does not torture us here. Life is terrible sometimes because with the fall of Adam and Eve in Eden and the serpent convincing them of the ultimate lie that with enough knowledge they too could become gods (false), the Earth fell to Satan. Satan rules the Earth right now until the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Why doesn't Jesus just fix it now? Simple. Free will. Lucifer was a covering angel and one of the 5 important Angels covering the throne of God. He became agitated with Gods rule and began to "trade" (gossip) and convinced 1/3 of Gods Angels to make war in heaven (I assume free will exists with angels too and it's a gift from God to all his sentient creations). Michael the archangel made war in heaven and cast lucifer and his rebel Angels out. But lucifer attacked man and lied to Adam and Eve and corrupted man, thereby injecting sin into them.
The payment of sin is eternal separation from God. Why? Not because God is mean but because God is just. He can't have rebels in paradise. The Bible says there is one God. If God let any one angel or person into heaven that challenged his absolute authority then he would cease to be God. There would be God with a rival and that diminishes God. That damages the goodness and purity and wonder of paradise. And honestly, if you can't accept living in paradise and living eternally with no tears and all your needs met, then you are not smart.
Adam and Eve were in paradise and had everything and no tears and were so stupid as to think they needed more than paradise. They were stupid and listened to the serpent who said it would be a great thing to be like God....and to know good and evil. They were misled and that's why we now suffer evil and lost paradise. It wasn't Gods fault Lucifer the rebel tricked man who used his and her free will poorly.
But, because man was corrupted, man has been separated by original sin from God. God brought the flood to destroy the Nephilim who were the giant offspring of the unholy Union of Angels and human women who were taught sorcery and witchcraft by Lucifers fallen angels. But it did not work to get rid of all of their genes or ideas.
So, he sent his son, Jesus. Jesus is the Bridge. The only way to God is through him. The payment for sin is death. So confusing. What that means is not physical death but spiritual and eternal death. But what that really means is eternal separation from God. Revelation refers to it as being thrown into the Lake of Fire. Not a psychopath mean or evil move of God. But there's not going to be another option when the end comes.
Jesus came to Earth to spread his message and with the Holy spirit to convince people to use their free will to accept him. That's why it has taken thousands of years. And that is also why after Jesus assumes the throne in New Jerusalem God will loose Satan for a short time even after Jesus comes during the 1000 year reign.
There will still be free will. Before when Jesus was alive, folks followed a poor carpenter because he did miracles. For thousands of years afterwards they followed because he fulfilled prophecy and rose from the dead but no one first hand saw him perform miracles. Faith.
Then, when he comes back in glory as King, there will be no ambiguity. He will be here as God for the world to see. If even with this blatant knowledge there are those who STILL reject him, God will be able to separate once and for all the sheep from the goats and the wheat from the chaff. The flood did not accomplish it to get rid of the fallen angel corruption. This whole process is intended to do that.
There can be no sin in paradise. No more uprising or trading in heaven. No more war in heaven. When the Earth is destroyed and the Bible says it will be, we will all be judged by God. Those who accept Jesus as their "savior", that is their Bridge to Heaven, and follow his teachings of peace, will have their wages of eternal death paid and they will be spared being thrown into the lake of fire.
Those who reject Christ to save them. Those who think they don't need him or God, don't like God, don't trust God, feel they can become gods on their own (i.e., believe the serpents lie from the Garden of Eden) will not be able to go to heaven. Not as punishment by a psychopath or evil God....but rather by a JUST God who promised billions of OTHER souls that they would live in a peaceful paradise. Seriously, how can it be paradise if you let the troublemaker in just to prove to the guy who doesn't like you or want anything to do with you anyway that you are not mean?
It's about being just to those who chose to be with you as well as just to those who don't. But, unfortunately there's only one other option if the world is done. And God does not have a duty to rebels to give them a competing paradise because again that would turn the all powerful God who we are supposed to obey into a genie in a bottle who will make us stuff on demand.
So the bottom line is that God is not evil. His ways are higher than our ways. But, we are not meant to want to bond with Earth existence as it stands now (under the rule of the Lord of the Earth, Satan). We are meant to want to go find him and be with him in paradise.
This movie was early in Revelation. God has an exciting and wonderful plan for us eternally...
Galena
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