Thanks for your input, but are terribly misguided in your free flow thoughts that you seem to think are the way to live. Well, for animal man, yes. Hence, your points may be valid to someones else, but not me brother.
You Said This: I have always had this instinctive urge to walk a path of grey. I see neither black nor white, good nor evil. Just cause and effect. It's merely action-reaction. Please read this again? You perfectly describe how an animal lives. They do not have a soul, so they do not see the good or the evil in the world and when they do "see", it is only merely a action-reaction with very little thinking, reasoning or anything divine happening inside of them. That my friend, is the definition of an animal.
Then you say the universe is already done and then in the very next paragraph you truth is always changing. But I see children, animals, insects, trees that are born into this universe and die from this universe every day. Are they not apart of the universe? Isn't that creation? Yes, it is divine creation. Hence, the universe is NOT done.
Bro, are you OK?
Here is some study material for you:
IT IS IMPERATIVE that a believer know he has a spirit, since, as we shall soon learn, every communication of God with man occurs there. If the believer does not discern his own spirit he invariably is ignorant of how to commune with God in the spirit. He easily substitutes the thoughts or emotions of the soul for the works of the spirit. Thus he confines himself to the outer realm, unable ever to reach the spiritual realm.
1 Corinthians 2.11 speaks of “the spirit of the man which is in him.”
1 Corinthians 5.4 mentions “my spirit.”
Romans 8.16 says “our spirit”
1 Corinthians 14.14 uses “my spirit.”
1 Corinthians 14.32 tells of the “spirits of prophets.”
Proverbs 25.28 refers to “his own spirit.” Darby
Hebrews 12.23 record “the spirits of just men.”
Zechariah 12.1 states that “the Lord . . . formed the spirit of man within him.”
The above Scripture verses sufficiently prove that we human beings do possess a human spirit. This spirit is not synonymous with our soul nor is it the same as the Holy Spirit. We worship God in this spirit.
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First of all, I'm Not a Judeo-Christian believer. So, while I recognize that there is a divine, I highly doubt the human brain in it's current evolution of biological perception of space/time could understand it, or it's intentions.
Second, I do not mean that if I don't believe in criminal, violent, or reprehensible behavior. You're assuming that based on a short statement of my unique observations in life, something I could never share with you, or vice versa. On the other hand, I can see why you think if you're a Christian. It seems there's this mythology among your scriptures that man is better than animals, when our social dynamics are closely reflected by thousands of species, not to mention our genetic inheritance of all that awesome dna that made you who you are today.
Last, do not dismiss the animal kingdom, for they are your cousins, your lost relatives, and our only known companions on earth. You are much like them as they are like you.
The whole idea of artificial vs. natural always seems 'artificial' to me. So, rewinding the clock about 4 billion years ago, and the first extremophile lifeforms are beginning to stir in the oceans formed by hydrogen meteor and meteorites bombarding a young earth. After a few hundred million years, the first prokaryotes evolve, not needing the hot, highly-pressurized depths of the thermal vents to sustain them. These prokaryotes all evolved form cyanobacteria, aka blue-green algae (really, really good for you in occasional doses), who spend the next billion years converting sunlight into energy using photosynthesis.
And yes, there is a reason for all this.
All of a sudden, eukaryotes come along, forming cellular bonds, more detailed and adapted in form, eventually giving rise to complex , multi-cellular life. One could say they had good chemistry. They formed plants, plankton, first invertabrates, et al. the simple stuff. As they changed and adapted, two very distinct types of creature emerged in earth's waters.
It was the rise of the vertabrates. These two classes differed greatly. To keep what could be very easily be a much, much longer story a little shorter:
What's the difference between an ant colony and a city?
The domestication of dogs from the lupis social dynamic to the attention of human direction using social interaction has only proved in the labs that they were willing to partner with humans genetically. Quite possibly because it ensures survival of the species. Why, we can only speculate, but we know dogs want our guidance... most of the time.... But we know for sure it's hard wired in.
The one thing you are the most wrong about, Apocalypse, is me. I see no distinction between black and white because they are all apart of everything. Not because I think everything is acceptable. Some things are still atrocities, but they are life; that is my point.
