Dontaskme wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:59 pm
Light cannot shine on itself, stop pretending it can.
Those are your words, not mine. If there's a problem, you made it.
good evil, are two sides of the same coin.
The Eastern Tradition thinks so. That's one of the things that makes in incompatible with Western religious views.
Seriously, what are we supposed to do, wait for Jesus to come and whitewash the whole corrupt creation.
People who ask your question are spoken of in the Bible, actually.
...in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.” For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water. But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be discovered... (1 Peter 3:3-10)
What are we supposed to do? To be ready for the Lord to judge the Earth in righteousness. Because He will.
You are right to complain about the unfairness of life, the injustice of suffering, and so forth. That is why God will not allow it to go on forever...a just God could not do that. So He will judge. But before He does, He gives opportunity for as many as choose to repent...and those, He saves.
But, as Peter says,
"The day of the Lord will come..."
When are you going to accept that we are an animal ?
Never, I think, because there's no reason to. The view that says we're mere "animals" is so inconsistent it doesn't even make sense. Nobody ought to believe it, and even those who try to can't seem to do it. They keep trying to tell me, who they say is a mere "animal," that I have special duties and obligations that they never tell any other "animal" to have....like the duty to believe certain things, or to behave in certain ways, or to be responsible for the Earth itself...