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Dennis Urban · 01-06-2019, 08:27 PM

(01-06-2019 05:03 PM)davg2000 Wrote:
(01-06-2019 10:18 AM)My Name Is Kate Wrote: Given that the vast majority, if not the whole of humanity, has an innate need to appeal to a higher power for help at some point in our lives, when God is taken out of our lives, it leaves a vacuum that must be replaced with something else. Elitists who promote communism/fascism/socialism/totalitarianism/liberalism substitute big government (with themselves at the apex of power and wealth) for God. They control the masses by supplying their basic needs while taking away their inalienable rights and liberties (which the elitists do not believe in, and most definitely do not believe come from God.)

So the question comes down to this: Who will each of us choose to serve? God or man? God or (fill in the blank)?

The world is proof that there is a God. You cannot get something (the world) from nothing. Something had to have always existed. You can call it energy, or you can call it spirit, but it is all-encompassing (except for evil, which is the result of free will.) I've always thought that the more legitimate question is: Does God take an interest in his creation?

It is abundantly obvious to me that what happens to our bodies is not a top priority with God. We all must die sometime, and we owe God a death. I think it is safe to say that God's interest is not in anything in the material world, but in the spiritual only. Everything is on loan to us, including our bodies and our lives. We may not like that fact, but all evidence points to it being the truth.

The day will never come when human beings will fully understand God. Science does its best to understand this fallen world, but it cannot explain the First Cause. Rather than acknowledging that fact, some choose to ridicule those who believe in a "God of the gaps." To them, as scientific knowledge increases, God decreases, until finally, some day, God will be eliminated altogether and human beings will at last have progressed beyond their silly superstitious religious beliefs. That is the goal of the globalists who are trying to seize control of this world from the peoples of all countries.

Wow! What a good post! I am Roman Catholic, but another way to understand why bad things happen to good people is to view God the way the Eighteenth Century deists saw him, a supreme being, the Creator, who is good and who chooses not to intervene, for his own reasons, which we are not privy to. He sees no need to explain his actions.

I very much appreciate these two answers and I agree with them. There are many issues in the material, spiritual, and religious world/universe which we humans cannot understand because our understanding is limited to that which is only human. The rest of what we choose to believe, we accept on "faith". Irrespective of one's faith or religious background each of us possesses free will. We are free to choose our actions, reactions, and beliefs. When my then 14-year-old daughter said she did not believe in creation but in the "big bang" theory, I said, "Fine, but think about this for a moment. Whatever matter came together to create that big bang; from where did it originate?" Hmmmmm. The supreme being in whom I choose to believe allows me to use my own free will for whatever purpose I desire and for whatever I wish to believe. Lincoln, to whom this site is devoted, was not religious but he was spiritual and he probably believed that there is something different and better beyond the physical being of our mortal bodies. I choose to believe so because if this life is the best there is, God help us (pun intended).