Why Did God Create Things That Decay and Die?
You are not living in a world created by God because God could
not create the things you see and experience here. Since God is
perfect, he can only create perfect things....and this world,
this reality, is far, far from perfect.
God is perfect peace and love. God is everlasting growth and
giving. God is growing and expanding and creating all things
eternal and perfect. God is unquenchable life beyond any concept
of life we may have. God is eternal blessings where everything
benefits everything else, all the time.
The process of creation is expansion...a never ending growth of
perfect things and beings. Creation is a direct reflection of
the creator. What is created will be perfect and will never
become anything less, but in itself, it will also have the
capacity to create other things that are perfect. It can't do
anything more. It can't do anything less.
God is also eternal, so since he creates by extending himself,
his creations also are eternal. God's creations are perfect and
eternal, just like him. They have all the attributes of God and
the only difference between them and himself is that he created
them, otherwise, they are identical, perfect, eternal and
creative.
Everything that is created has the capacity to create without
losing anything of itself in the process, because creation is
the expansion and replication of an idea without cost to the
originator. It's similar to when you tell somebody a story. Once
you share the story, somebody else also has the story and they
can share it with somebody else and so on and so on until the
whole world has heard the story. Meanwhile, you have not lost
the story because you did not give it away, you shared it...and
it grew without loss to you. This is how creation works. The
idea goes forth and reproduces itself perfectly. Once created,
not only does it not take anything to be created, but it will
give or expand when it also creates. Creation never takes
because it can only give. It can only grow. Since it dosen't
take, it leaves no vacuum in its trail, therefore nothing exists
to pull it back or undo its creation.
Since God can only create things that are perfect and eternal,
and things that only give and never take, he cannot create a
living organism that grows old and dies. God cannot create a
system where one thing has to die in order for another thing to
live...be it plant-life, flesh or micro-organisms. God cannot
create anything that consumes something else and does not give
back more than what was originally there. God cannot create
anything that takes.
How then do we account for us...this world...this entire
physical universe based upon rules of taking, using, consuming,
decaying and eventual death? Even our scientists have already
concluded that the universe itself will eventually stop
expanding and contract back into the atom sized particle that
started the big bang in the first place. Our whole universe
eventually dies because it consumes energy and leaves a vacuum
in its wake. A vacuum that will eventually pull it back and undo
its existance. So if God can only create something that is
perfect and eternal, how do we account for an entire universe
that will eventually die?
Since only perfect and eternal things can be created, only
perfect and eternal things really exist. Nothing that is not
perfect really exists in the way a perfect being views things.
So, from a perfectly spiritual point of view, this entire
physical universe does not really exist. It is not perfect... it
is not eternal and so it could not have been created by God
since God could not create a universe that consumes and dies.
Let's step back a moment. The spirit that is you was created by
God and this spirit, this mind, is perfect, is eternal and is
real. God created us as an extension of himself, but he did not
create us physically because physical things are not perfect and
they are not eternal. God created us spiritually, which is
perfect and eternal. You may inhabit a body, but that body is
not who you are. You are a perfect and eternal spiritual being
and your body is just a temporary transportation device...a car.
As spiritual beings, we also created things that were perfect
and eternal. As eternal and perfect beings, we would pursue
every thought that could ever be conceived. Thoughts that would
not lead towards a perfect thing were discarded since this was
not something that could be created and you can only create
things perfect and eternal.
In the midst of the billions and trillions of perfect thoughts
that were created and the non-perfect thoughts that were
discarded, somewhere, somehow, we held onto a thought that could
not be created perfect and eternal. The thought should have been
discarded like the trillion of other thoughts before, so by
holding onto the thought, we made our first error in thinking.
The thought, whatever it was, was not a perfect thought, so it
could not be created, but we were somehow intrigued or drawn to
it, and for a micro-second (Just an expression. In an eternal
setting, there is no time.) we chose not to let go of this
thought.
This error in thinking had to have an effect. All thoughts lead
to something. All thoughts are focused energy that will produce
a result. Since only a perfect thought can create eternal
things, an error in thinking can only lead to a shadow of
creation...as we might visualize a dream or hallucination which
is nowhere near perfect or eternal and is in a separate space,
void of God's perfection and void of the ability to exist
eternally.
This method of thinking leads to something being "made", not
created. Created things are perfect and eternal and create more
things like itself, but something that is made, can only make
more things like itself, that are also not perfect or eternal.
Anything made, will not last forever and will eventually die.
Anything made can also be un-made and will eventually cease to
exist. This is perfect balance. This is the correcting of errors.
While in this void, an illusion developed as a shadowy
reflection of creation where the error in thinking attempts to
act like creation...but it is not. This error in thinking
eventually manifested itself as a pin-point of energy in a
non-perfect reality...a physical reality. Time was invented and
within its first micro-second, energy beyond what we can even
now fathom, burst from this pin-point and manifested itself to
make more things like itself, to make things that were also
errors and also not perfect and also not eternal. The
universe...the big bang was born.
God did not create this physical world, we made it, we dreamed
it and we decided to not let it go. We knew we should have just
discarded the thought and moved onto real creations, but we
didn't. We did not want to give up this dream or illusion of
creation. We knew it was not the better choice. We knew this was
something our creator would not do. We knew we should just let
it go.
Since we were holding onto an error, we no longer saw all things
clearly. Things were unclear because our minds were warped by
holding onto the error. With a clouded mind came the final and
virtually fatal error. We had another thought...a thought we
knew was not true, but our clouded mind hid this from us. We
thought God would disapprove of what we have done. We thought
that God would make us let go of this thing we made. We thought
God would be upset at us. We experienced the first sensation of
guilt...and then we believed we had no choice. We believed we
had to hide from God.
Have you ever seen a circumstance where a young child did
something that he knew wasn't the better thing? Then have you
ever seen where he acted and felt so guilty that he even hid
from you, even though you really weren't upset or angry...even
though you had no desire to punish him for something so trivial,
something so accepted as a natural effect of growing? In this
situation, no matter what your actual intentions or thoughts,
the child felt his actions were worth being punished. That is
what we did...as a young spiritual child, we assumed something
that was not so, and like this earthly example of a child, we
decided to judge ourselves and hide from God.
Our fall, as you might call it, was a spiritual event. Man did
not exist so he could not fall. Instead, man was a result of our
judgment upon ourselves. Man and this entire physical,
metaphysical and clouded spiritual reality was the result of our
spiritual fall.
Everything that has transpired on this planet has brought this
original thought of God's wrath and anger right along. We have
worked it into our religions and have made God the architect of
disasters, the deliverer of punishment and the author of guilt
and judgment. None of this is from God's mind, just ours and
just while we choose to hide from God.
God has not abandoned us. He is exactly where he always has
been. He has not changed. His love for us has not changed. His
desire for us to be wholly one with him again has not changed.
The only difference between the way it was and the way it is, is
that we stepped away. We stepped back. Upon stepping back, a
void appeared between us and God. This void created an "unknown"
area that gave birth to fear, in which we built thick
walls...solidifying our fears. These walls, or errors in
thinking...errors in perception, made it more and more difficult
for us to see God, while also making it easier and easier for us
to believe we were successfully hiding from God.
>From God's point of view, we are right where we always have
been. He sees us right where we were, only now, we appear to be
asleep since we are not communicating with him like we used to.
God wants us to regain this communication with him, but will not
and does not want to force us to awaken. In order to gently help
us awaken, he created the Holy Spirit to help increase
communication with him again. He then sent Jesus to prepare a
way and enable the door to be opened to let the Holy Spirit in.
We are not abandoned. We are not alone. God has not forgotten a
single one of us. God works with us on an eternal, timeless
scale because we are eternal and so he has no reason to hurry.
He has no need to fear what may happen to us while we sleep
because he knows that no matter what we manifest in our dreams,
our true selves are sitting right there with him, blessed by him
and surrounded by him...totally safe for all eternity.
We cannot die nor do we have any reason to fear harm in any way
because God cannot create things that decay and die. This body
is a car. Things may happen to your car that you do not like,
but it's just a car. Even when the car is totally destroyed, you
still exist as you always have...and perhaps you'll even find
another car and return again. I can't say I know how that works,
but whether we are experiencing this void physically,
metaphysically or spiritually, we are here because we think God
is upset at us and we think we can hide.
While we are here, we can choose to be open and willing to see
things differently...more clearly. We can choose to pursue God's
truths and set aside the fears that created this world. One by
one we can remove the blocks in the wall that we have built
between us and our creator...and one day, we will take one step
forward together, and God will reach out his hand and help us
safely leap across the abyss. Then, our eyes will open and we
will know we are with our creator. Once again, we will feel the
full love and peace of God and continue our eternal existance
with him.
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