God - Why Absent From the planet?
Turn on the TV news and you can feel overwhelmed by all the bad stuff - atrocities by terrorists, horrors of genocide, anguish of displaced destitution which is as well as the threat of pollution, and crime. You think of something horrible and also you will not have far to look for it. Who cannot see the need for unselfish concern to be far more lively in our world?
(IINews) - Turn on the TV news and you can feel overwhelmed by all the bad stuff - atrocities by terrorists, horrors of genocide, anguish of displaced destitution which is as well as the threat of pollution, and crime. You think of something horrible and also you will not have far to look for it. Who cannot see the need for unselfish concern to be far more lively in our world?
If empathy for all loving kindness, and the oppressed originate in a wise and transcendent loving God, then we desire his existence for combating societal evils. After all seems to have been around in the past him if we''re to believe sacred texts. Not the invented punitive god of punishment and condemnation but instead the compassionate God of wisdom and love, as revealed in Jesus Christ of Nazareth''s life span.
The Gospel records Christ seeming to folks, performing miracles that amazed the public, talking audibly, and numerous other things that we do not often witness in our time. Why is this? Why was God so willing to show and establish himself in Bible times but looks "concealed" and silent now? Make his moment coming when we all really want him now?
State of inner consciousness that is human
One solution to this question can be viewed in 18th century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg''s religious theories. According to him, through a large number of years, successive generations of the citizenry of the world''s have acquired and passed on an increasing tendency of self-inclination. In other words we have become more and more inclined to rely on self-wisdom, pursue self-interest, and want our very own way in things.
The claim is that as a result of this accumulated egoism, humankind simply hasn''t been sufficiently spiritually advanced to take on board the loving wisdom of God''s teachings e.g. about loving the neighbour. Then this gets in the way of any matter for the wants of others, if we let love our hearts. Swedenborg maintains that as double standards this growth of self-orientation has demonstrated the field of religion in itself. Thus the slow demise of organised Christianity where a judgmental and hypocritical attitude has been revealed by it. It''s often turned its back on the God of love and wisdom and fallen into the folly of dogma and superstition - by created three god''s even destroying the oneness of God. How can practical toleration, authenticity of integrity, or humility of purpose endure in this type of climate?
If accurate I believe such an apocalyptic view about the ''end of the world'' of religion means many people have thrown the baby out with the bath water. They''ve thrown away their acceptance of God''s presence, in rejecting the old religion.
Many people dwell in accordance with their non-spiritual lights. Not all capitalists use their workers roughly lack respect for the natural environment as to cause dangerous levels of pollution. A few unfortunately yet opt to allow self-orientation to govern their actions and turn it into an over-riding love of self. Then it''s clear how greed for money might develop. In this scenario their business choices will be dominated by the want for profit, irrespective of what the consequences for the health of the environment or the working states of staff,.
Not all national leaders, confronted with competition from other countries, start a war for the benefit or faced with opposition from within their own people resort to tyranny.
Not everyone, with fundamental beliefs, is a fanatic, killing others and displacing people from their dwellings in their own hundreds of tens of thousands, as is occurring in Syria. However, I''d say if aggrieved and deprived individuals follow a tendency -orientation, then they are vulnerable to the propaganda of terrorists - falling for the delusion that power and glory comes from identifying with a political cause in spite of the humanitarian price.
Swedenborg additionally has described another feature of our religious environment. One Swedenborg says has developed lately. It is an epoch making reordering of what Swedenborg terms our ''spiritual world'' that is some sort of collective unconscious. In being separated in the insidious influence of power and hypocrisy of spiritual associations, we''ve freedom of thought. This new inner liberty Swedenborg says has resulted in a new intuitive appreciation of what''s good and accurate among folks.
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