Comments on: Did God Create Evil? http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil.htm Ben & Shae Cecka's family in Gilbert, AZ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: scotto http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil.htm/comment-page-1#comment-289 scotto Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:21:18 +0000 http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil/#comment-289 That's a road well traversed. Using reason and logic to define something undefinable is hard. Where does the line between scientific knowledge and reason end and belief start? It is impossible to gain an objective viewpoint as no matter the case, we are always the subjective observer, and there will always be a piece of our awareness in everything that we do, from logical reasoning to baking a cake. For example, if I was to literally take the youngling's argument as fact, then my absence of Christian faith (and corrosponding godhead deity) makes me an evil person, filled with darkness. But I know that is not the case. One thing that i do know for fact is that I am experiencing subjective reality at this moment which is made up of the million pieces of stimuli entering all of my senses, being processed by my brain and body, creating emotion and thought (then ultimately music...) And I do not buy the professor's argument either, as like I initially stated it is impossible to define something undefinable. One thing that i do like is exploring religious beliefs as a whole, and what is it that makes up our 'spirit'. It is undeniable to me that the human ability to experience awareness creates an infinite loop of thought process, a self perpetuating paradox. The ability to believe in something greater than ourselves, a form of energy that is both omnipotent and all-knowing (deity,god,christ,bhudda,etc), I think, and believe is a product of our mind's ability to throw a wrench into the mystery of Self knowledge, the paradox of our awareness being aware of itself, and the awareness of that, ad infinitum. In essence, it is a product of the evolution of humanity as a whole. Though, in a lot of cases, these belief systems are so strong they seem to create a lot more bad than good (Holy Wars). We're still working it out. Hopefully we will continue to evolve into more peaceful beings as a whole, and I think the ability to believe in God, or a God is a piece of that puzzle, the essential of our future evolution. Spreading my awareness of Self out even further (remember, it's all subjective!), I can see the whole of humanity, and how we are still very much in the infancy stages of human existence. It's amazing, beautiful, and terrifying. The point? As far as I know so far, for me it is love and music, and embracing the mystery and darkness, and not having blind faith in something I cannot experience, but knowing that the ability to have faith itself is one of the more positive functions of a human being. Anyhow, see ya soon. :) That’s a road well traversed. Using reason and logic to define something undefinable is hard. Where does the line between scientific knowledge and reason end and belief start? It is impossible to gain an objective viewpoint as no matter the case, we are always the subjective observer, and there will always be a piece of our awareness in everything that we do, from logical reasoning to baking a cake.

For example, if I was to literally take the youngling’s argument as fact, then my absence of Christian faith (and corrosponding godhead deity) makes me an evil person, filled with darkness. But I know that is not the case. One thing that i do know for fact is that I am experiencing subjective reality at this moment which is made up of the million pieces of stimuli entering all of my senses, being processed by my brain and body, creating emotion and thought (then ultimately music…) And I do not buy the professor’s argument either, as like I initially stated it is impossible to define something undefinable.

One thing that i do like is exploring religious beliefs as a whole, and what is it that makes up our ‘spirit’. It is undeniable to me that the human ability to experience awareness creates an infinite loop of thought process, a self perpetuating paradox. The ability to believe in something greater than ourselves, a form of energy that is both omnipotent and all-knowing (deity,god,christ,bhudda,etc), I think, and believe is a product of our mind’s ability to throw a wrench into the mystery of Self knowledge, the paradox of our awareness being aware of itself, and the awareness of that, ad infinitum. In essence, it is a product of the evolution of humanity as a whole. Though, in a lot of cases, these belief systems are so strong they seem to create a lot more bad than good (Holy Wars). We’re still working it out. Hopefully we will continue to evolve into more peaceful beings as a whole, and I think the ability to believe in God, or a God is a piece of that puzzle, the essential of our future evolution. Spreading my awareness of Self out even further (remember, it’s all subjective!), I can see the whole of humanity, and how we are still very much in the infancy stages of human existence. It’s amazing, beautiful, and terrifying. The point? As far as I know so far, for me it is love and music, and embracing the mystery and darkness, and not having blind faith in something I cannot experience, but knowing that the ability to have faith itself is one of the more positive functions of a human being.

Anyhow, see ya soon. :)

]]> By: Ben http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil.htm/comment-page-1#comment-288 Ben Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:43:40 +0000 http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil/#comment-288 I think I just like the in-your-face aspect of it more than anything. And its cute. I think I just like the in-your-face aspect of it more than anything. And its cute.

]]> By: Nik http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil.htm/comment-page-1#comment-286 Nik Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:46:19 +0000 http://www.ben-shae.com/2006/03/31/did-god-create-evil/#comment-286 Cute, but I don't buy it for a second. Cute, but I don’t buy it for a second.

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