
Nomo
Audioholic Samurai
I don’t know if I can answer your questions, because I am not a student of the bible or active in an organized religion. You know how Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your house and give you bible literature to read. Well, it’s not my religion, but I sat down and read it. It was a good read and I got an understanding from it, so what I say may not be right out of the bible, but a particular flavor of their religion or I might have got it all wrong.
God exists, he is still watching, and he is benevolent, but in the past he has dealt out some severe punishments, such as flooding the world/ Noah’s ark. In the end there will be judgment day.
My understanding from the literature is that the Angel Lucifer challenged God over who could better rule heaven. God cast him down to earth and is letting him rule earth as a test case to see if he can do better than God. We are supposed to be in this time period. God is not causing bad things in your life, Lucifer is doing that or it is randomly happening. If you pray to God, he might intervene unseen and help you though. This test period concludes in the end of days out of the bible. After that God will remake the earth. The rest you will have to look in the bible.
But under this oversimplified scenario, it is possible to understand what is going on and why bad things happen and why it may look like God is not here. I don’t think God is responsible for Gays because he finds them detestable. Why would he create something he detests? If man can alter (or perfect) genetic codes, then surely God and Lucifer could also.
I apologize to more knowledgeable bible people in advance if I got this idea wrong. Feel free to step in and correct as you see fit.
So..... what you're saying is....
Correct me if I'm wrong here: Not that there's anything wrong with that?