I'm still skeptical, mainly because God allows hundreds of Christian dominations to exist, each convinced if *one little aspect* is missing (like confession) from the other then they are going to hell. I remember catholic school, if you missed a holy day of obligation you're certainly going to hell. And if God doesn't care about these minor differences, what's the point?
Like for tens of thousands of years humans lived in tribes and slaughtered eachother, it was normal. Are all of those people in an afterlife? Even after Nicea, bibles couldn't be printed and distributed to the several hundred million people who lived without it. How could God judge caveman the barbarian compared to catholic schoolboy telling a lie lol.
Then again, I read somewhere the odds of DNA code forming cellular function like we have was mathematically similar to winning the lottery 13 times in a row (impossible). If you remember "Aurelius Moner" from Return of Kings, he's a catholic monk who wrote several articles. I enjoyed what he wrote but ultimately he had limits on his explanations.
I fully recognize humans need a unifying ethic system to believe in, but I suspect that sense of altruism and kindness is more of a manifestation of certain people's genetics than anything. The same reason socialism can work in those little nordic countries but not elsewhere.
PS: for God to read our thoughts, our conscious would have to be part of God, I guess I don't see why God would "distribute" his consciousness to observers and then see which observers in human form start to think certain things are now special or something. I do think humans are hard-wired to various behaviors based on their genetics. And an afterlife, without a biological body I don't see how there's any "life". Most of what we do is emotional and chemical to a degree. Excitement, work, nervousness, happiness, etc... you want to float around in eternity being some sort of vegetable who doesn't feel? I just find the church's explanation lacking and limited. And how would he judge women? They're literally wired to be mischievous.
PPS: I am starting to logically deduce whether a "satan" or "lucifer" exists and that's what has synchronized the left's rabid, batshit insane hatred of western civilization. It's like it infected their minds and it's a good as explanation as any.
Like for tens of thousands of years humans lived in tribes and slaughtered eachother, it was normal. Are all of those people in an afterlife? Even after Nicea, bibles couldn't be printed and distributed to the several hundred million people who lived without it. How could God judge caveman the barbarian compared to catholic schoolboy telling a lie lol.
Then again, I read somewhere the odds of DNA code forming cellular function like we have was mathematically similar to winning the lottery 13 times in a row (impossible). If you remember "Aurelius Moner" from Return of Kings, he's a catholic monk who wrote several articles. I enjoyed what he wrote but ultimately he had limits on his explanations.
I fully recognize humans need a unifying ethic system to believe in, but I suspect that sense of altruism and kindness is more of a manifestation of certain people's genetics than anything. The same reason socialism can work in those little nordic countries but not elsewhere.
PS: for God to read our thoughts, our conscious would have to be part of God, I guess I don't see why God would "distribute" his consciousness to observers and then see which observers in human form start to think certain things are now special or something. I do think humans are hard-wired to various behaviors based on their genetics. And an afterlife, without a biological body I don't see how there's any "life". Most of what we do is emotional and chemical to a degree. Excitement, work, nervousness, happiness, etc... you want to float around in eternity being some sort of vegetable who doesn't feel? I just find the church's explanation lacking and limited. And how would he judge women? They're literally wired to be mischievous.
PPS: I am starting to logically deduce whether a "satan" or "lucifer" exists and that's what has synchronized the left's rabid, batshit insane hatred of western civilization. It's like it infected their minds and it's a good as explanation as any.