The Weight...Pt 1 of 2

the weight

If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in

us, but not yet attached to the true object. If a transtemporal, relating to time,

transfinite, surpassing the finite, if this good is our real destiny, then any other

good on which we fix must be in some degree untrue, must bear at best only

a symbolical relation to what will truly satisfy. In scriptural terms, only the far-

off country in the end of heaven must be our desire.

We have betrayed ourselves. Self-love is a deluding, maddening influence

operating to keep fallen human beings from a real apprehension of how bad

we are. Human self-love at the fall is what brought us into a relationship with

sin. Can anything be added to the conception of being with Christ? God hath

wisely and mercifully so ordered things in this world that love in one thing is

a restraint to self-love in another thing. In other words, concerns about others

well-being prevent people from indulging all their self-centered, destructive

desires. For it must be true, that he who has God and everything else has no

more than he who has God only. What is it that so relegated humanity to

disobedience to the word of God. The simple answer is hate. Hate is invoked

as the essence of human evil. But there is yet still a further fallenness to

humanity. It is hatred. Hatred is the exact opposite of love. Hate is more often

used when referring to an ill feeling in a general way. Hatred is more to

describe a very strong considered or preemptive action for the loathing

against a particular kind of person. Hatred can be one sided or two sided,

but there remains the opportunity for love. Why was enmity purposed.

Because it exposes the sinful pride that inspires hatred toward divine truths

that offend it. Too many are scarcely willing to allow anything that is true to

be above their comprehension, and therefore, are very ready to question the

truth of things that are so. Thus, self pridefulness accounts for the existence

of strong opposition to notions such as the truth of the nature of Christ and

other doctrines that exceed human ability to comprehend. This self pride

makes people hard to correct or teach: they won’t hearken to instructions

and counsels of others: they’re too wise to be taught. Enmity’s intenseness

is mutual, between two, no opportunity for love. Genuine love for God

produces hatred for those things that offend God, and this holy hatred is the

necessary evidence of real god-like love.

God has placed a special manner of people in a country that is filled with a

myriad of tragedies and senseless and detestable moments of ever

myriad of tragedies

disheartening current affairs. 

This country is fairly clear of its feelings with

regards to diversities of people. A level of hatred most of us are repulsed by

has been unleashed in America. When you see irrational anger without any

logical reason or justification for it, there is usually an extraordinarily strong

evil spirit behind it. This evil anti-Christ spirit is in manifestation all over the

world. The question and the answer are the same…why. What can be the

basis for showing such disdain and aggression toward a non-aggressive

people. It’s the american psyche. And now, what is mainstream here has

made the United States the leading exporter of hate. Hate is an action. Hate

takes time. Hate takes energy. It even demands sacrifices. People who hate

sacrifice rational thinking, lose their values, reduce self-esteem. These have

a great emotional and spiritual void. And worse, they deplete the spirit of

others. And here’s the unpleasant discovery – America has proven to be a

racial gathering, not a nation of common ideas and beliefs. America-loathing

and works to destroy the country from within, far exceed the creedal tenets

of profession of faith and symbolic representation of a system of civility.

America is ripe for conflict. American inequality is typical of the country’s

America

history and sapping of its soul. Americans hate each other. God is about to

dissolve this bestial nation. Why did God purpose this place? Because He

has a perfect plan. Salvation presupposes sin; restoration presupposes a

fall. So, it's reasonable to infer that God's primary purpose in allowing this

designated country is to showcase His glory both in the original creation and

also in His powerful and merciful restoration of that creation from its rebellion and corruption as a moronically, hypocritically, and self-delusioned, self-

claimed practicing christian nation. This is a country of filthy rags. It is being

condemned to show that it is not a truth based country. So, if there’s any

doubt in mind about God’s stance on what is happening in this nation, allow

His word to remove all doubt. God is a loving and compassionate God, and

He hates sin, and He hates hatred. God tested this nation with every single

ethnic group on earth - every nation, every person.

The existence of evil and wickedness in this world pose a serious challenge

to faith. Evil is not simply the absence of good but enmity toward the good,

especially as seen in God Himself. Prominent in our study is sin’s tendency

to deform the power of reason to apprehend truth in relation to God.

Furthermore, along with inflicting harm on fellow human beings, sin has

infected humanity to such a degree that it aims ultimately at the murder of

God Himself. Because God is all knowing, and the God who is love, He must

have a truly holy purpose for allowing such an adverse thing to His nature to

exist in the world. God’s purpose surely cannot be in conflict with His plan.

The problem of evil, of hatred poses a challenge to our faith. We see the intended

to be good hearted people experience the ravages of violence and hateful acts.

Something is dreadfully wrong with this world. A fully grown male stabbing a

six year aged child 26 times to death. Why? Hatred for the child’s nationality.

It is estimated that 95 percent of the indigenous populations in the Americas

were killed during the years following European colonization, amounting to

Hanging

an estimated 20 million people. Consider a request in 1967 to examine a law

that encouraged the hanging of black people. The U.S. Congress decided to

allow the law to remain in force. Why? Hatred. The establishment of

American institutions of education, finance, law enforcement, judicial courts,

housing authorities, employment, leveraged to advantage a specific group.

Why? Hatred. Hate is the essence of depravity. What would it look like for

God to have a morally sufficient reason for allowing evil? For God’s plan to

finish He must allow hatred and evil to exist. He cannot at this time eliminate

the evil and suffering in the world without also getting rid of morally significant

free will. We might wonder why God would choose to risk populating His new

creation with free creatures if He knew there was a chance that human immorality

could foul the whole thing up.

Because free will, though it makes evil and hatred possible, is also the only

thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world

of creatures that worked like machines would hardly be worth creating. The

happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of

being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other…and for that we

must be free. This is why in the kingdom there is only truth. Of course, God

knew what would happen if we used our freedom the wrong way: apparently

He thought it worth the risk. To create creatures capable of moral good,

therefore, he must create creatures capable of moral evil; and he cannot

leave these creatures free to perform evil and at the same time prevent them

from doing so…the fact that these free creatures sometimes go wrong,

however, counts neither against God’s omnipotence nor against His

goodness; for He could have forestalled the occurrence of moral evil only by

removing the possibility of moral good. In God, love and hate, good and evil

could co-exist because God has a morally sufficient reason for allowing

them. God’s morally sufficient reason is to do with humans being granted

morally significant free will and with the greater goods this freedom makes

possible. We are unfinished and in the midst of being made all that God

intended us to be. The long maturing process is to make us into a

distinguishable likeness capable of reasoning and responsibility, but we must

now, as individuals, go through a process of “spiritualization” during which

children of God

we become “children of God.” 

Reckoning with the hatred and the suffering and travails of this life are part of the divine plan of soul-making. A world full of suffering, trials and temptations is more conducive to the process of soul-making than a world full of constant pleasure and the complete absence of

pain. The judgment that is implicitly being invoked here is that one who has

attained to goodness by meeting and eventually mastering temptations,

loving rather than hating, enduring suffering by rightly making responsible

choices in concrete situations, is good in a richer and more valuable sense

than would be one created from the beginning in a state of innocence and

virtue. That is an ethically reasonable judgment…that human goodness

building up by faith through personal histories of moral effort has a value in

the eyes of the Creator which justifies even the long travail of the soul-making

process.