My fellow Christians, are you up to this challenge?

Question

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I have only received 2 answers!!

Answer 1

I answered it. Great question.

Answer 2

I was a christian for oooo so long, and still am, thanks to the wonderful FLEXIABLITY of the religion, but I digress. Ether way none of that is going to make sense to the traditonal cathic due to the fact that all is part of gods plan. Unfornutly the fundemental nature of god having a PLAN takes away free-will, so a wonderful catch-22 that all cathilocs get to play around with. On top of the biggest one of all, namly all dead people are asleep so no ones in heaven yet which people don't seem to grasp, No grampas not watching you, his in the ground rotting waiting on Jesus's second comming.... but what kind of dreams would we have then? But I digress again. Understand that inorder for this to make sense we most COMBIND the two. That there is free-will and a WAY of god, a force of god, a force of creation. And the whole ideal behind a creation of god being as strong as god (satan) doesn't make ANY sense, but again, another religious catch-22, but take that out of the equation and understand that GOD doesn't play good and bad, thats opionin, thats HUMAN perception. The game GOD plays is creation, its both a powerful and sometimes small force, but it isn't perfect in the sense that we want it to be. People suffer, people die, for no reason, thats just US, its our power its our free-will. Now as far as the environment goes, Einstien actually proved it, GOD DOESN'T PLAY DICE!!!!! So really as science as pulled slowly but surly the curtain of ignorance from this great creation of god (THE UNIVERSE!) we have seen that really it is as it should, for any other way it couldn't work. Really the true problem we deal with is that god made us OOOO so powerful, we can see reality how ever we want, for what ever we want, for good or bad, for creation or distruction. But the point is always there, WE ARE THE SHEPARDS! Not so much for the word of god, like religion whats us to. But its our job to take care of this place, to watch after it and our fellow creatures, and of course love it all thru understanding. In the end it is good or bad, its a journey, its about discover, experience, and the most fundemental phonema of the force of god, LOVE! And its hard to love everyone when your to busy trying to explain how your religion is the right one, or how theres is the wrong one (*cough* sin of pride *cough*), but I digress again you didn't say anything confitational. My answer is simply to answer your question both as a human being and as a Roman Orthidox Cathic, I was raised in the tradinal matter. But in the end I say a bigger picture, god is beyond humanizing and when I say how all religions done that I finally figured out that religion isn't there to define god, or understand him, just simply to humanize him, and he is beyond that, don't you think? Ether way perception makes any situation hell and love can make anything heaven. It isn't GOD who makes the wrong, its us humans that just see that....