First of all, let me say souls live before and after our lives. If we only care about our current lives, there’s no need to care about the Bible. Good souls feel happy since they help each other and bad souls feel unhappy since they harm each other despite their awareness. There are millions of places where good souls live together, and we call them heaven. And there are millions of places where bad souls live together, and we call them hell. There was a moment when God decided to save bad souls. He created a lot of explicit places that human eyes could see, and he created the earth. On the earth, he places souls of identical levels with each other. According to their characteristics, they will be some kind of animals. Of course when their nature changes, they can be offered a different appearance. And I guess God is generous enough to train a soul through a number of lives. Let’s stop for a moment here and reconsider. Wasn’t God very pleased with everything He had created, despite the fact that there were bad characteristics from the beginning such as the serpent. Additionally, He commented that human beings were evils from the beginning. It’s not his mistake, otherwise he would be conflicted with himself. Furthermore, what did he mean by “the beginning”? Didn’t Jesus say we must become like children? So the beginning is a different moment, not the moment we were born. Ok, so let’s continue. There was a loving plan that he had prepared. Let there be a naive soul living among the creatures. He called him Adam. He was created before or after the remaining, that’s not important. The important thing is he was part of his plan to save others. Do not blame God that just because Adam did not obey him once, he made a world full of misery for us. If so, what is the point where he sacrificed his beloved son? Anyway, Adam is not the only ancestor of human beings. The first evidence is that at the beginning, God created animals except human beings first, and then he created human beings. However, at the moment he made Adam, some animals were made later. The second evidence is that there was a time when God’s sons got married to human’s daughters. This can be explained by Adam’s descendants meaning God’s children, while the remaining means human species. Let’s go back to the story. The plan was brilliant. Adam would have a fruitful garden to eat, and other people and other kinds of animal species would have food for them too. The only difference was Adam was intended to live forever or at least until the plan was accomplished, while others had short lives. Let’s think about it for a bit. Why weren’t others not allowed to live forever? Well, maybe God was afraid that their evilness would harm each other tremendously. Some will go to heaven and some will go to hell, and this process will be going on. However, it was necessary for Adam to live happily forever, because that’s the way other people and other animals would want to follow him. How could they become righteous when they followed Adam? The only way is Adam would always obey God. Why was there the tree of knowledge in the middle of the garden? It’s just a test. Unfortunately, Adam failed at the first test. Be patient. Still what’s the problem when Adam ate its fruits? He has had the ability of gods, which is knowing right from wrong. Are ourselves more stupid than Adam? This is unlikely, because we somehow can distinguish between right and wrong. But Adam needed to be a naive soul, which ended right at the moment he ate the fruits of knowledge. Now he’s able to judge. A judgement creature could not help God accomplish his plan, because he would love some and hate others. Now it’s not useful for him to live forever, if not harmful, because all others would follow him and he would eventually lead them to hell. Anyway, God did not give up his aim. Now let’s stop for another moment and think about the above things. If Adam had accepted some animal as his friend, there might not have been Eva. Still, humans as well as other species were planned to produce much more all over the earth from the beginning. However, God did not intend for Adam such a human life. Oh interesting! Why did he only choose among animals other than humans for Adam to choose a friend from? To make sure they were naive. Just don’t be confused. There were cunning animals out there, such as the serpent, of course God wouldn’t choose them. And being careful, he made some new ones, even though there might already be tons on the earth, and took them to Adam. It’s easy to see that a normal human might be more clever than Adam, then he or she would lead Adam. Again, Adam could not find any friends from the group, God carefully made a woman out of himself for a harmonious soul to live with him because that way there was love. I don’t think Eva needed to bear children at all from the beginning. Anyway, after they failed to obey God, it was their descendants where God continued his plan. Let’s say we were all Adam’s descendants after the flood, but from the beginning not so. Did you feel bored yet? Ok, inevitably, I must say God hates war. Because of the beautiful plan from the beginning. Because we can see how he got angry with crimes. Still in Noah’s age, he established a new order given the evilness of the creatures. First, he commanded no killing. And then, it became more complicated when talking about other animal species. Well, what is the reason why there are two stages, which are connected but look different, that we can see from the old covenant and the new covenant? I don’t know what is about you, but for me I was hard headed. I was weak, my heart was evil, and my head was hard. That’s why in order to save me, God needed me to obey him. And in order to obey him, I needed to love him. No way with such a creature like me that God could make me love him before he made me afraid of him. So the old covenant says about the first stage and the new covenant says about the second stage. Likewise, human mission is to lead other creatures. However, both themselves and others became so evil that other animals attacked and even ate humans. A crucial thing to save themselves was to make them afraid of humans first. And God allowed humans to eat these animals. That’s from the age of Noah. Let’s move to Moses’. Now things got better, and they should be, otherwise what’s the point of the Great Plan? Since their characteristics got better, he commanded the Israelites not to eat some unclean animals. On the other hand, he reserved the calmest animals to be sacrificed only in the event of clearing sins for their owners. He emphasized that their blood guilt would shed onto the one who shed their blood. However, Moses failed to follow this, and he allowed the Israelites to eat those calm animals’ meat whenever they wanted to. He’s just a human. How can we expect him to be perfect? God was disappointed with him a few times, and he even prevented him from reaching the promised land. But let’s not judge him. Because we are not to judge. Anyway, until Moses’ time, humans had become meat eaters for a long time. That’s why Moses even thought that God loved the smell of sacrificed meat. He loves calm animals, that was certain. It’s just the smell of sacrifice that made him forgive the owner. Who won’t moan about their pet’s death, though? And who needs to eat their dog’s thigh but does not regret their sin? Despite all of those, people were getting familiar with eating meat. And because a sheep’s meat was not very different from others’ with Moses, he ignored the commandment. Then came Jesus. He would like us to eat him and regret our sins. But there’s some practice that even reverse its meaning. Some people show their happiness whenever they celebrate the Eucharist, and they think that way God will get into their body! Be realistic! You eat your lord’s meat and drink his blood, to depict your weakness and sinful condition, and commit to follow him. That’s the meaning of the Eucharist. Coming to our age, animals have been afraid of us. Some have loved us already. Let us make all of them love us. I hope I will be able to add some more to the story later but now this is the end. Sorry for getting far from the topic.
(Original post: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-war.8261044/page-2#post-76962750. Post number: #36. Author: Mai Bright)
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