is god two beings in one? supreme being and father?
2007-06-28 04:21:28 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
WHATS THIS YOUR GOD CRAP IM AN ATHEIST
2007-06-28 04:26:28 · update #1
According to Genesis Mankind brought evil into the world by eating some forbidden apple. Of course its the evil female's fault (sign of the times).
God is both Father and a supreme being, but then again, so is Elvis : )
2007-06-28 04:28:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
When God made man he created everyone with a free will. In Genesis Satan tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. When they did all sin and evil came into the world. If God made it so everyone was good and loved Him and there was no evil, then we would be like robots without a free will. If you choose to love God He will keep you with Him always, but if you choose to do evil and separate yourself from God He is not going to force you to go to heaven. The only other place to spend eternity is hell.
God is the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are a trinity; three-in-one. An analogy would be like an egg; the egg has the shell, the white, and the yolk, but they are all the same egg.
2007-06-28 11:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a question that has perplexed philosophers for the past 2000 years. There are many explanations. Plato as well as Plotonius believed that evil has it's place in the Universe, giving a meaning to good. Some of the kabbalists of the medieval era believed since the Universe is both good and evil, God is both good and evil, but yet others reject that idea saying that when Adam ate of the tree in the Garden of Eden the nature of the Universe changed, and Death as well as Evil were introduced. The Gnostics believed that this Universe was created by the Demiurge, or the creator God, who was an Evil God in essence, but the true God lies out of the cosmos.
2007-06-28 11:35:12 · answer #3 · answered by fighterforadonai 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why does God allow evil? One of the enduring questions, to be sure. One possible answer is so that we can know its opposite: love. Without the bad, how do we know the good? Without the ugly, how do we recognize beauty? Similarly, without evil, how can we recognize love, compassion, selflessness, heroism? As for the father and supreme being analogies, you chose your words quite well. That's all they are -- analogies. Ultimately, religion is nothing but a system of metaphors and analogies claiming to explain the unknown in an attempt to calm the ever-present fears accompanying the unknown. It is crowd-control, it is the familiarity of ritual, it is comfort in giving up certain levels of responsibility in our lives. ("Let go and let God.") I believe that the true nature of God, or the higher order of the cosmos, is probably incomprehensible to the human mind at this level of development. Furthermore, we may never be capable of understanding -- nor meant to understand -- the nature of God. I'm OK with that. I freely grant the notion that some kind of a higher order exists and that there is a specific role in the universe we human beings occupy, but I can't claim to understand that, nor do I spend my time worrying about such things. If nothing else, I believe that a benevolent, compassionate, father-God would want us to make more of our lives than wondering about him. Like any parent, he would want his children to take his gifts and enjoy them, helping others as they go. We only get a little time to enjoy life -- if we're lucky about 80-100 years. A great deal more than most other creatures we share this planet with, but a drop in the bucket on the universe's time scale. Do you want your children to spend the rest of their lives analyzing your motives for each and every rule you ever made them observe? Questioning every disciplinary action you took against them? If they do, they won't have the time to experience the wonder of parenthood, enjoy the company of their loved ones, savor the richness of life. That's what "God the father" wants for you, too.
2007-06-28 11:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by Hugh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God allows evil because it is a possible outcome of giving free will. And without free will, we would be automatons unable to love.
The father analogy is just that, an analogy. In an analogy, the two things being compared aren't exactly alike, but alike enough in certain ways that it helps us to understand the unfamiliar by its similarities to the familiar.
2007-06-28 11:40:02 · answer #5 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means father as in creator, source, origin. In my mind I see God as the theoritical absolute of consciousness. The problem with consciousness is, that whenever you try to understand what it is, you have to first be conscious of the consciousness you are trying to disern, so you can never understand the totality of consciousness without actually using consciousness. So theoritically, a being or essence that can understand its consciousness without consciousness would be a God. Then the question becomes, what mode of knowledge is he/she/it using? The answer would have to be not a conscious one at all. However, that is theory, and can get bogged down in semantics.
2007-06-28 11:27:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Father analogy - insert here.
So can your male parent not be both a human being and father?
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-06-28 11:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God always keeps a balance in universe every time there is too much evil he sents his son or prophet or he comes himself to earth to restore the balance
2007-06-28 11:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by garlic J 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God allows "evil" (put in quotations, because neither you or I know true good/evil) because it is His divine and perfect will for it to be so. If it wasn't, it wouldn't happen.
We had paradise, and forfeited it.
2007-06-28 11:25:48 · answer #9 · answered by Soundtrack to a Nightmare 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are testing God or God should be testing you.
2007-06-28 11:40:07 · answer #10 · answered by adam a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋