For MSB--
I don't have any special knowledge, but I doubt that anthropomorphizing God will lend much clarity. Creation is on a scale we cannot comprehend and the purpose of it ... yeah.
The philosophy of the Cathars may be of use here. They firmly believed the material world was Hell and a realm ruled by Satan. The exalted realm is spiritual, and our spiritual strivings here are attempts to exit the material world forever and remain in the spiritual realm.
Cheers--
Quote:This is not how a kind and gentle father treats his children.
I don't have any special knowledge, but I doubt that anthropomorphizing God will lend much clarity. Creation is on a scale we cannot comprehend and the purpose of it ... yeah.
Quote:we would literally be in hell, just played out as different people one after the other.
The philosophy of the Cathars may be of use here. They firmly believed the material world was Hell and a realm ruled by Satan. The exalted realm is spiritual, and our spiritual strivings here are attempts to exit the material world forever and remain in the spiritual realm.
Cheers--
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