Share your personal journey of faith, skepticism, or atheism, why you believe in God or trust in science instead. This is a place for SUPPORT and AGREEMENT only, not a place to tell someone their experience and feelings are wrong, or why we disagree with them.
B.H. wrote:Evil could have been avoided all together when you think about it. God could have made us where we had just as strong a sense of right and wrong as he supposedly does and no one would give into the temptation to do evil.
But he didn't choose to do that.
God made sex enjoyable. There are all sorts of problems coming out of that as well as considerable evil. Within the proper context it is wonderful and natural. You can do stuff like this with any human desire. Many things work on normal averages. Most people will see much same kind of morality that is takes to survive as a tribe. You can see nations and even corporations as a tribe as people do this naturally. Yes things do get out of sync from time to time. Then they return to a normal grind. God sees things with a long term view. Humans cannot think that way because we are time constrained for now. You can be a member of several tribes at once. So it can get confusing as you watch some one negotiate tribal boundaries. If you are in the CoC it is a tribe. If you are an elder you a member of a smaller tribe too. The congregation will split into groups that have a particular concern. Families are a foundational tribe. Someone leaving a church may ripping though several tribes at once. Hopefully that is not your only support.