Christian Mystery About Life.
Why the
Christian view is so limited.
The
Christian description of existence says that a super-intelligent creator is
responsible for all of creation, including the mind of humans.
But
one could ask the Christian why the world is far from perfect if created by a super intelligence. The Christian answer is that human free will is
responsible for the fallen world.
One
could ask the Christian how human free will causes the world (creation) get
away from the super powerful creator. The Christian answer is that human free
will is an act of the intelligent creator's love; that is to say, the creator
wants it to be that way, even though creation will fall. The apologist gives this
explanation although the Bible doesn't.
Now
one could say to the Christian that free will, resulting in an act of disobedience,
is bound to make creation go wrong. One asks the Christian why the
intelligent creator designed things so that creation was bound to fall. The
Christian answer is that it's how the intelligent creator wants things to
be.
One
now ask the Christian why the intelligent creator wants so many humans
to go astray. The Christian answer is that it's just the way it is. In other
words, one asks the Christian why the intelligent creator made a
fallen creation possible to begin with. The Christian answer is that it's
just the way it is; furthermore, it's part of a perfect plan.
One
asks what perfect plan is that? But the Christian can't tell you what it
is, because the Christian claims he can't comprehend it. He only asserts that it's a
perfect master plan, that's all.
Thus Christians accept a concept that Christians themselves
don't understand. Yet the intelligent creator could reveal the perfect plan if
that creator had a mind to do so. Instead, the intelligent creator lets it
remain a mystery.
Along
those lines, skeptics might say that no matter how you slice it, life is a mystery, and that the Christian argument goes around in a circle. That is, concerning the
mystery of life, nothing of depth is revealed in the Christian argument. It's
apparent that Christians merely accept the mystery as a fact.
Meantime,
while Christians don't really understand what Jesus is doing, they seek others to accept the dogma. The upshot is that those who accept the dogma simply state that the basic preachment is true while they lack a deeper understanding of it. And that's because, at
bottom, it's just a mystery.
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