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Answers to Hard Questions
1. Why would the nobodies be at the bottom of society if there weren't something wrong
with them?
Absence of spirit powers is the main reason. Powerlessness and vulnerabity are not corruptions. It's the other way around—power corrupts. In fact, the persons at the bottom of society are often more rational and realistic than persons who are well off. However, society is quite diverse, and some persons work for satan often having spirit powers similar to satan's. Their location is irrelevant. They easily enter the professions, having a major source of spirit powers, but their incompetence is a problem; so they are dispersed throughout society. 2. Why would a nobody be doing the work of the Holy Spirit? The work of the Holy Spirit is not manifested as worldliness. Humans cannot determine what the Holy Spirit is doing. It is not appropriate for humans to make reference to the Holy Spirit, since they know nothing about the subject. What fundamentalists assume to be the work of the Holy Spirit is nothing but satan's control over them as indicated by the worldliness and power mongering. There is nothing constructive about such values. 3. Why would God create so much misery in the world? The world belongs to satan, because he controls it through the sin inside of humans. A large part of society willingly work for satan. Another large part of society are unwittingly controlled by satan due to their sin and ignorance. Satan also uses force to intimidate weak persons into subservience, while they often do not know who is behind the intimidating influences. The only constructive way to influence people is through truth and knowledge. God's work is in the truth and knowledge. It does not prevent sin from destroying lives, but it moves in the direction of improvement. There has been a continuous evolution of social standards, but at the same time satan acquires new sources of power which overwhelms everyone. 4. If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, why did he create such a mess? "All-powerful and all-knowing" is another fundamentalist sham. Power and knowledge cannot turn contradictions into fact. Sin began in the spirit world billions of years ago, and material life was needed to create morality based upon objective reality. If it is hard to prove anything in human life, how hard would it be with no stable realities? It is satan's paradise in the spirit world. He has major limitations in the material world. 5. Why didn't God get rid of satan a long time ago? What is getting rid of a spiritual being? There is no container that will hold spiritual beings. The only spirits in hell are the ones without enough spirit powers to escape. Satan has spirit powers. He doesn't end up in hell until he has no society left to exploit as a source of power. He gets his power by stealing spirit substance from vulnerable persons, and only after they are gone does he end up in hell. 6. Why doesn't the lovey dovey God save everyone including satan? Ten billion years of sin shapes everything in satan's mind. To redesign every reality in a person's mind (which God cannot do) would be to create a different mind. If the original corrupt mind were to disappear, it wouldn't matter whether a replacement were created or not. God cannot make a mind disappear, because the realities would return to the same configuration afterwards. 7. When are the rich people going to get saved? Maybe in a future life; maybe in past lives. Some have more moral character than others due to their previous experiences in past lives. The assumption that people only live one life-time does not explain the purpose of human life, considering that some lives are quite short. Why would life be so frivilous when the investment is so large? All primitive societies assumed people lived more than one life—often including lives in the animal world. 8. Why not fix everyone with one zap instead of all this brickabrack? Supposedly, Paul was fixed with one zap which turned him into a saint who can teach us things that Christ could not teach. But Paul told us that he was still corrupt. He said that leaving the flesh and existing only as spirit would be the fix. But that theology assumes that God screwed up in creating human life. If Paul has the answer, then get the fix from him. 9. How can a just God forgive humans without a blood offering? Christ said humans are supposed to forgive each other for no reason beyond the fact that to not forgive is a corruption. Why would God be so corrupt that he could not forgive humans? Forgiving is supposed to be erased from moral concerns. Christ never described God as being a moral pervert who could not forgive people without a horendous sin being perpetrated to justify it. Paul Rationality in Religion |