Good & Evil {understanding the nature of God}

Polarity is what has divided man kind from the very beginning. {At least as far back as we can trace the origin of man.}

Good and evil – light and dark. One side has suffered as the other side stood victorious.
And it seems that Good always triumphs over evil. Its interesting how things work that way.
You never heard of a nation which conquered another nation call itself ‘the evil ones’.

What is good and evil, going beyond modern and ancient politics and warfare?
Even more so, if there is the notion of good and evil, does this imply that God is both good and evil.
Most Christians would say, “God forbid that one would think such, God being infinite, only has the knowledge of all things…but He, in himself, is not evil.”

Interesting that something can exist without side of God himself.
This would then imply that there is an equal. Christians do not align themselves with the ideal that Jesus and Satan were brothers. After all, Jesus is God and we cant make Satan equal with God – it just wouldn’t be right. Yet at the same time, they are saying this very thing by saying that something exist outside of God himself – primarily that thing being what we call evil.

Good and Evil have been misunderstood by mankind since our fall from grace, so to speak.
Think of it this way, God put the tree in the garden that had both knowledge of Good and Evil.
Christian theologians do not deny that Adam was meant to eventually eat from this tree when he was mature.

But having eaten from the symbolic tree to soon, he became, what we would probably call on the evolutionary scale, a monkey. He took that which was symbol literally and identified with the creation or ego. After all, in Judaism it is taught that Adam was originally a body of light before his fall. He fell into ‘flesh’ or ‘matter’. There are high implications in this view point which I believe quantum physics would support faster than the idea that God was into making fashion clothes out of skin for Adam and Eve.

Think about and contemplate the fall of the ‘watchers’. When they fell, what were the implications for them as well as the earth. Remember that Genesis clearly stated that their offspring was on the earth before and after the flood. Interesting when many Christians are under the false pretense that the flood was to wipe out this generation of people.

I am not going into detail about this, which for most Christians is leaving them hanging, so to speak, on this subject matter. It is delivering to them a perspective on this issue that they are least familiar with, and have not much to compare it to. It would do it more justice if I were to go into more detail, but such topics as this alongside of the nature of good & evil cannot be properly dealt with in a short blog.

The idea is to unite good & evil. God, per say, wants to be ‘understood’.
This shows itself in our relationship with one another throughout the ages.

After all, we are created in the image of God. And if this is so, then we mirror that which is above as that which is above mirrors that which is below.

We too want to be understood.
Its this lack of understanding between each other, and our basic desire, which leads to the constant arguing and bickering between religions. No one wants to hear the other side, and each side is the sole owner of ‘truth’. Ironic indeed is it not?

Whenever you can reach out, relate, & understand someone from where they are coming from, you then are doing what Jesus was doing…showing Love, truly communicating on a heart to heart level.

Jesus showed the same signs that we do. He cried, as we cried – he literally walked a mile (or more) in our shoes. He was never after converting anyone, but meeting them at where they were at.
He used the terms of that milieu to try to communicate a message greater than that age was ready to comprehend.

Even today, we are not ready. We have advanced with technology and science, yet we carry around the archaic symbols and hold onto them for dear life – hoping that within the dead temple we can find life. Life dwells within each and everyone of us, and when we see that light in the other, we then begin to see God.

There truly is a lot more that could be said along these lines, and more that I wanted to share.
Some of this will kind of be out there as if it were poetic prose…as if it too are words wrapped up in the mystery of symbology.

I want to wrap this quick blog up with saying this. God is not what we ‘think’ he is.
He is greater than the confounds of our greatest imagination. God is without limit and has ultimate potential. He can only be known through his attributes which are not him, but tell of his existence.

Nothing that exist, exist without him. (John)
All things live in him and move and have their being.
We are part of the body of Christ with Jesus the head. (second Adam)

There are so many implications here that can, and probably will be expounded upon later.

Let me ask you this. Can you sit in judgement and label that which is good?
It seems easy, but can you be the judge? And that which is bad, have you not seen how in the past such circumstances actually worked out for the good to bring you to a totally different level altogether?

Are we that shallow to really believe that things are really so polarized, that its an ‘us against them’.
As long as we hold that belief, that reality will manifest in our lives.

With that, I bring this blog post to a close. (rough draft, as are all my post. That is the style and nature of this blog for now.)

Until Next Time

Peace

dAlen