The Qualities of God

The One True and Most High God would never ever beg one person to take another person's life. This could never be the same God of Moses who said, 'thou shalt not commit the crime of murder." And the One True and Most High God would never require a person to prove thier obedience. Not the same God of Jesus who could see into our very hearts and minds. None-the-less this is exactly the type of God which many people believe in. This is the God of the Old Testament, which required one man to sacrifice his own son in order to prove obedience. This is the God of the Book of Mormon who begged Nephi to take another man's life. In my own belief, no such god exists, unless there is a great pretender. But its not far and away too hard to imagine that one human being is capable of fooling even themselves.

In current events recently a Mother killed her own children, and professed that God had told her to do it! And in our courts of law we argued as to wether or not the woman should be considered a victim of insanity. Perhaps there really was a god who begged the woman to do just as she had done, perhaps it was no kind of fantasy. But if we believe that it was a fantasy, then it must also be evidence of insanity. It simply does not matter that people are able to know right from wrong, given the proper emotional conditions any kind of behaviour can be somehow justified. There is some kind of rational available, we only have to reach for it, and sometimes that rationality is very easy to come by. No person is above being conned, and we can not be blamed for believeing one thing or another, especially if we have been taught to believe. But the things that we do or say is everything that matters. And in the various ways in which we have delt with others, we give our permission to be delt in the same vein. However we have exercised our own judgement, we should be made subject to judgement. And we should be willing to entertain a conversation with all those people that we can judge to be our peers, and even though we may walk away from an arguement, we can not afford to turn away forever. Our relationship with other people should be infinitely renewable, if we are able to exercise any kind of patience. It's really quite impossible to get to know another person in one day, and if I am mature and responsible, getting to know you is a neccessity. And we must somehow learn to view every person as a peer; because as i have already explained, no one person should be viewed as more or less important.

There are very few things that I can say that I know for certain, beyond all doubts.
But among these things I can say that there really is a God.
That God is paying attention.
That God cares, and I don't know why God cares about our wellfare but evidently he does.
And I believe that the promise of a ressurection is good.
I want it to be true, i really like the idea; but i know full well that no matter how much I want it, belief and strong feelings alone have no power to make something true.
But I know that if the promise of a ressurection is good, then by all appearances God has conditions that have to be met.

I have been taught that the One True and Most High God favors the person who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good!
And I can not be blamed for believeing its true.
But in some respects, it is this belief which governs my life.