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above our pay grade

 

It appears that understanding the details of existence is above our pay grade. Simple questions that you would think would not require much of an answer are simply beyond us.

Fore instance:

  •  Why is there good and evil
  • Why is damnation eternal 
  • Why is there temptation 
  •  Why is life a deception
  • Why are we being tested
  • Why 3 instantiations of one God 
  • Why heaven and Earth 
  • Why demons 
  • ...

It's a long list with no answers. In the Bible some people ask how long this will go on, but Job is one of the few people that asks why. He never gets an answer, and ends up apologizing to God. We never know why. Job and his 3 friends are terrified of God, and then things go back to normal. 

God created everything, thought, force, energy. All concepts and realities, known and unknowable, all done by God. There is no other source. 

Daniel is a good example of how strange it all is.

Daniel 8 [15] And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
[16] And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
[17] So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
[18] Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
[19] And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

 

 Daniel is beloved of God, and yet when he seeks understanding, he is afraid and overwhelmed. Also no one really understands the answers he got, not even Daniel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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