[Mickiel]

One of the most common approaches to most religions is very simple: the " Good" make it and the " Bad" do not. This theme is interwoven into our belief systems, good living is rewarded by " The Creator", and bad living is punished by him. An although I never would have thought in my wildess dreams I would come to this point, I can no longer accept that theme as the explination of what the Creator has done to humans, and is now doing to humans. So I reject the premise.

I cannot accept that there is a " Great War" going on between good and evil, nor that the Creator has established that war. Evil has won far too many of those wars, and engulfed far too many humans. A being of the Creators capabilitys, such a senerio would lead to far too many " Casualitys" amoung unsuspecting humans, so there is no great war. I don't think ANY power even remotely approaches the power of the Creator anyway. War is only reasonable when one side has the power to fight the other. And thats what gets to me, evil only affects humans, it does not effect God, who surely must have created " The Oppisition" anyway. We only suffer from evil, not God. Evil cannot defeat God, it can only do that to humans.

So it remains to reason that God MUST protect his creation from evil, which is more powerful than us anyway. Or is he somehow " Using evil" in our development? Why would God need evil to develop humanity? Jesus was born straight through the conception of the Holy Spirit, when he was reborn on earth. God could have done that to all of humanity, why didn't he?

And I want to go into these things.

Peace.