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Illogical
The role of God in the world today is something that is often put up to debate.
Who goes to Heaven and who to Hell? Who does He (here using “He” simply to make writing
this easier) favour? Is it even worth worshipping Him anymore? Of course, my answers can’t
be better than anyone else’s, but I can tell you what I have deducted from simple logic
applied to an utterly illogical matter.
Think of God as a parent, and the human race as a child that has long since grown
up and moved out. We are on our own. Once in a while, we can ask for a bit of guidance,
and He may chose to give it – but if He decides that we have to figure it out on our own,
then that’s that. Maybe we, as a whole, are beyond helping. Even so, He is there when we
don’t know where else to turn, however much that may help us.
As for the Heaven and Hell dilemma, I don’t think it’s possible for those places
to exist. There must be another realm – but I won’t get into that. The image of Heaven
and Hell, however, is just a dream – something we wish to believe, to keep our hopes up
and to keep our morals in check.
The problem I see with Heaven and Hell is that everyone thinks they are going to
Heaven – and those who don’t probably regret their actions and deserve to go anyways.
Everyone who believes in Heaven and Hell has a different idea of who is going where. Every
person on this planet is thought to be going to Heaven according to some people and Hell
according to others. This is where the problem comes in. How God is supposed to decide who
goes where when everyone is simply doing what they think is right, and when everyone has a
slightly different idea of who should go where? The people in Heaven would have wars with
each other, and those in hell would likely not understand why they had been placed there
rather than Heaven – which defeats the purpose of both places.
These are just my views, though – maybe I’m too logical to understand God, or
maybe (as I’ve often heard) logic doesn’t apply to God. Either way, if things are actually
laid out so simply – God, Heaven, Hell – there must be a complicated web somewhere that
has never been explained to human kind.
~Lauren, Lauren.Rizzotto@theguthan.com
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