Why do Christians believe in separation?

Question

God and Satan...Heaven and Hell...good and evil...faith and logic.

"We ought to consider everything sacred, the entire world, not merely this artificially separated half! You must create for yourself a God that contains the devil too and infront of which you needn't close your eyes when the most natural things in the world take place."

– Hermann Hesse

Jesus was mortal as well.

Answer 1

I think the problem is pretty clear here: "You must create for yourself a God...." It doesn't matter what comes after those words. The point here is that Hesse believes that humans can create a god and be creating some sort of truth. Humans may very well invent some whimsical idea of what they believe is the almighty, but it is just a reflection of their own thoughts and desires. God is God, no matter what we may think of him. To encourage people to "create for [themselves] a God" is ridiculous, blasphemous, and profoundly wrongheaded.

The fact is that there is a separation. No matter what you, I, or the other guy may think of it. Hesse can call it artificial if he likes, but it's just one man misunderstanding time and eternity.

Answer 2

Everything in existance is dual. It sets the basic premise behind Yin and yang, left and right, up and down... Think about it. It is the science of the universe. It is however, different degrees of the same thing from the same source, but I do believe you are headed in the right direction, just a bit off track.

Life has to be dual natured in order to function. After all, how could you know anything of the one state or condition less its natural polar opposite. It is in the geometry and science of the entire universe. From the alpha to the omega.

It's like trying to counter balance the effects of gravity via flight. You can... but never SHOULD for any extended period of time it would just undo creation.

Answer 3

A lot of people say a lot of things.sometimes they say the opposite if the mood hits them.The only thing that really matters is what God says and believes.I would much rather look to him than Herman Hesse,

Answer 4

You have named the opposites and left out the stuff in the middle. God, people, Satan; Heaven, earth, hell; good, mediocre, evil; and as for faith and logic it's my experience that these 2 work best in tandem. I believe in the opposites and the stuff in between.

Personally I'm a ying/yang kinda girl. If one exists (and I believe He does) then you have to have the other to balance it all out.

Answer 5

Don't say 'all'
Why do some people always want to force people into certain groups? And I am a Christian, but that doesn't mean I believe in what you accused me to believe. Quite far from it, actually.
Why can't you concider maybe that some things should be seperated?

Maybe they figure that.. bad is a lot different than good and to be good, there must be bad.

I see beauty in sadness..in every human expirience and every person. Is that what you mean?

Mavis knows...........

edit: and I agree with Sandy

Answer 6

This question seems to be rife with moral relativism. Remember, Hesse was mortal; God is not. God made the rules.

Answer 7

Faith and logic go hand in hand.

Secondly god created hell for Satan and his fallowers, not originally for humans.

Now look at the world around you:

Night and Day

Light and Dark

Life and Death

Destruction and construction


God created the universe and that is how he designed it but originally Death did not exist.

Answer 8

There always will be an opposite attracts, ying yang, fire and water..... north polarity, south polarity. They might might be separated but they can't exist without the other.

Answer 9

Not all do. But many people have not been taught to see things from different perspectives, and to think in terms of spectrums rather than separation. So, it becomes one-or-the-other, all-or-nothing.

Answer 10

I got to the point of why bother to respond because it won't make any difference-They are what they are, Just accept the difference and move on.