| sapphi_snake said: @DélioPT: Being part of a culture does not mean everything. For the vast majority of people, it is everything. What God knows is what you have done/what happened. That`s the part you keep overlooking and making it unimportant when it makes all the difference. In order for god to be all knowing, he needs to also know what WILL HAPPEN. Else god is not all knowing. To which i answered: "If God wasn`t interested in you (corrected now) having power to decide then you wouldn`t have free will or the ability to think and feel. What God wants, and you can see that through Jesus' teachings is for you to understand and realize that your "best" is within God. In other words, god does not want individuality, but sameness and conformity. Do you even know what individuality is? |
Being part of a culture does influence people but doesn`t make them what they are. They choose what they want to choose, when they want to choose.
"What God knows is what you have done/what happened. That`s the part you keep overlooking and making it unimportant when it makes all the difference. In order for god to be all knowing, he needs to also know what WILL HAPPEN. Else god is not all knowing"
I was seeing it from the "looking back" point of view.
Seeing it as conformity and sameness isn´t looking deep enough. Wanting to be with God is something you choose too because you see it as the best for you. Sameness? Well, if a million people see it as good why shouldn`t they go after it.
Individuality is seen not only on your decision to be with God, but how you live it with God. If you think that following a "set of rules" - which is not really the case, it`s much more than that - makes you lose your identity then you are not seeing right and also you forget that everyone follows rules, one way or another. There isn`t a full "I" because you don`t live alone in this world.
