Quote from musclemoney:
Why would anyone create people who are going to live, and die to ultimately live in some kind of vaccum? Why would God give us Children who make us smile, who create life after we are gone if we are supposed to be some kind of dust matter after death?? Why would God allow ANYONE to be happy on Earth if they were merely here to die, and live without salvation?
Try to undertand that your self-concept is technically an atheist and an idolater. You do not believe in *our Father* who only blesses. You believe in a god who blesses and curses. That god is an idol, existing by fiat of belief only. You believe in the idol because that is what you want. It strips its believer of power that it may possess the believers mind, attempting to survive by making "time" last forever. It induces thought processes, hypnotically influencing the mind which hosts it, taking it hostage. Dividing the mind in order to conquer it, it offers "gifts" to tempt the mind to welcome trojan horses.
The body is a trojan horse, offering special status and unique identity. It is technically an image - a graven image - idolized by the hypnotized. *Our Father* did not make it! It is given to decieve you. It is accepted as you agree to be decieved. It blinds you to reality, making the idol's world more real than the Kingdom of God to you.
Children are gifts of the idol...little idols to make you smile...that you may give and recieve special love. *Our Father* does not love unequally, and all in the Kingdom are equals. None are weak, none learn, and all are perfect, having everything. Children are self-concepts which are relatively opposite the way the *Father and the Son* create: Like from Like. Children are not like their parents. They are born weak. They know nothing. They must grow and learn. They are different, unique...special. All of this is of the idol, which makes a rediculous parody of God's creation.
Children are not for "you". They are for the idol, for its longevity and survival. So long as the human race survives, so does the idol. It cares not about your so-called "life". Is that not obvious? Why do you think it good that the race lives on, while you rot in the grave?
*Our Father* does not cooperate with this at all, knows nothing of it, and knows only his Son, perfect as himself. This is all your doing, and for your undoing...with Guidance. You must lead your own undoing, giving the first 10% of willingness, so to speak, that all your self-concepts be gone from your holy mind. The Holy Spirit will then supply the other 90% strength needed for your deliverance from temptation...from what *our Father* does not understand because it is completely meaningless.
Bottom line: Everything the idol does is for its own survival. It lives off of a mind that could end its existence at any moment belief were withdrawn from it. So it must tempt that mind to accept what it offers. As you accept its gifts, and give thanks for them, you settle for less than what *our Father* gave you, and sacrifice everything for nothing...valuing nothing...even death, that the idol may live on in your mind like a parasite...a worm that never intends to die so long as you consent to make mulch of your mind.
Jesus