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"I want to qualify this I'm not a Christian. I once was but after a while the church just didn't seem to fit the message I was reading in their book. So, I believed if God was truly all powerful he would not allow his church to be perverted by these men and therefore maybe God wasn't really all powerful and not God. I could be wrong."
Many people lose faith because of that sort of perception; that God is supposed to intervene on our behalf or alter circumstance to our (those with the beauty of goodness inside of us) liking. But from my deep perception, that is not the role of God (if one is to believe). God is there to help guide us, to help give us strength, and to give us hope. One of the biggest tactical errors of those who believe in religion is that they equate circumstance and God as being the same entity. That couldn't be further from the truth. Circumstance is its own entity and it basically rules our lives. That's where free will comes in; in how we respond to and handle circumstance. But God is not circumstance. God allows circumstance free reign because to not do so would basically mean heaven on earth, and if it were heaven on earth why the need for earth at all? Circumstance is its own force. God is there to lift us up past circumstance, to give us renewed spirit and hope, to give us strength and to give us guidance; so that we may each walk down our own path, at our own pace, in our own time, for our own reasons. If God's role was to change circumstance, to rule circumstance, to manipulate circumstance; than the game would be rigged no? Is God's intent for there to be heaven on earth? If we are to believe in a faith, aren't we to believe that the concept of heaven (whatever it may be) and the reality of earth are separate for a reason? If we are to believe this, then wouldn't we also have to acknowledge that in order for that to be, that He can't change circumstances to our liking or it would defeat the whole purpose?
I hope some of what I'm saying makes some sense to you. Too many people get the ideals of circumstance and God confused as if one entity. They both guide us and build us, but in completely different ways and for completely different reasons. God is wisdom. Wisdom is pure, untainted, factual and inarguable. Circumstance, on the other hand, is perception. Everything we see, feel, touch, taste and hear, is all perception. Perception is not pure, factual nor inarguable. Wisdom is there to help us make sense of the perception, to learn lessons from that which we perceive, and to give us hope, strength and perseverance that overcomes the falseness of perception. So that's what I compare God to, in absence of any organized religion. God is wisdom and strength. Circumstance is perception and flaw. Distinct, different, yet both part of the same journey that is life and betterness of our nature.
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