[Serious]Why are you not a believer of the existence of God

[kleinma]

I think life is much more meaning full when you believe that this is all you have. If I were to consider this to be some BS staging ground for eternal bliss, then I would not look at life very positively, I would want to hurry up and get it over with to start the real show.

Likewise if we are here on earth for some "trial by god" to see if we live by gods rules so we can die and then go to heaven, then god sounds like an evil bastard to me... what kind of all powerful infallible being runs some sort of sick sea monkey experiment with a planet?

[EntityX]

Ok so maybe some of you feel that if God exists He isn't very nice. This is from a lecture given by Paramahansa Yogananda: "He(God) has created each one of you, and He is throbbing in you, crying to enter your consciousness so that He may release you. I am sure He feels guilty for having created us! Every day I ask Him why He did it. (I talk to Him about anything that comes to my mind. He likes it, that I am "after" Him; He knows His creation is anything but perfect.) The Lord replies that you cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God."

Earlier in the same lecture : "His whole creation is intended to disillusion you and thus cause you to draw back to Him."

Taken from Man's Eternal Quest by Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter Making Religion Scientific.

[kleinma]

Ok so maybe some of you feel that if God exists He isn't very nice. This is from a lecture given by Paramahansa Yogananda: "He(God) has created each one of you, and He is throbbing in you, crying to enter your consciousness so that He may release you. I am sure He feels guilty for having created us! Every day I ask Him why He did it. (I talk to Him about anything that comes to my mind. He likes it, that I am "after" Him; He knows His creation is anything but perfect.) The Lord replies that you cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God."

Earlier in the same lecture : "His whole creation is intended to disillusion you and thus cause you to draw back to Him."

Taken from Man's Eternal Quest by Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter Making Religion Scientific.

wow, now i believe because this guy makes odd ball analogies about hot iron and steel. Thanks god for all the death and disease, its been a great lesson.