But has anyone ever questioned why? Of course they have. I'm not breaking new ground into some vast, unknown, and forsaken territory which has been deeply guarded from our understanding by a secret organization or the likes.
No.
Everyone has questioned why we shouldn't eat cookies before dinner. Why we should lift the toilet seat. Why we should open the door for a lady as she walks by. Why we should go to our room after misbehavior. Why everything we want to do at our core should be utterly and confusingly denied.
But, of course, when we get older, these things make sense:
Cookies are for after, because they leave the best taste in your mouth after dinner, and you can't eat as many of these fattening sweets after a good healthy meal.
The toilet seat doesn't appreciate the left-behind. And neither does the next guy's bottom.
I guess ladies own us. :] just kidding. Mannerisms are a way to make things easier for each other.
Punishment is the only way we can learn not to do something which is destructive to our or other's well being.
And everything at our core is utterly and confusingly destructive.
Every ambition of human nature is purely self righteous. The owner of a body has a world which inclines itself only to include the desires, needs, and ideas of the user. Such behavior is conductive only to that which takes.
And takes.
And takes.
Never giving a second thought to where the happiness it so willfully draws on is being mined and extricated from:
Other people.
A pure and simple desire for one's self.
selfishness.
disastrous. devastating. A constant struggle for the resources we "require" at the expense of those we do and do not know.
So how is it that no one ever questioned those most important rules we grew up with? *ehem* the Bible.
The rules seem bipolar. Very strict and ridiculously specific at one end, and very very vague and somehow contradictory at the other. So vast, so many, so specific the laws seem to be.
It all seems so harsh. To put these rules down in front of us and expect us to take these without so much as a hint to what it's all for. tragic, the plight of the human race.
selfishness.
disastrous. devastating. A constant struggle for the resources we "require" at the expense of those we do and do not know.
So how is it that no one ever questioned those most important rules we grew up with? *ehem* the Bible.
The rules seem bipolar. Very strict and ridiculously specific at one end, and very very vague and somehow contradictory at the other. So vast, so many, so specific the laws seem to be.
- the golden rule
- the ten commandments
- Leviticus
- EVERYTHING IN THERE!
It all seems so harsh. To put these rules down in front of us and expect us to take these without so much as a hint to what it's all for. tragic, the plight of the human race.
It's just so hard.
No one could possibly follow these commandments. It's just too much. There was that one guy, but no one is exactly like Him.
So why?
Why all of this ridiculousness? It's obvious, looking at the christian world today, how well the rules have worked out... right? Obviously a failure. Obviously another fraud among a field of fraudulence.
But wait.
If these rules are good, then why can't anyone follow them? More importantly, why are the rules good? The parents and such had reasons for their rules and regulations on our youth.
So why are these rules from an ancient book good?
Are the rules good because God made them that way?
Or is God good because the rules are the path to selflessness, which he embodies?
On the one hand, God created existence.
On the other, the rules of good and evil define all forces.
hmm....
but what if?
what if God and the rules were not mutually exclusive?
What if God is the rules, and the rules are God?
Because we are made in the image of God... that means that... to be Godlike we must follow the path he follows... but to be Godlike we must follow the rules..... like a=b and c=b therefor a=c....
God is the rules, because they define who he is, but at the same time... they are defined by Him.
so.
God IS the rules.
therefore, the reason we must follow these many rules is because we are God-like, our nature being benefited from the replication of Him... since we are Him in a way, and the reason the rules are there in the first place is because if they are Him, and He is us, then we are them.
SOOOO... to be beneficial to God and inadvertently ourselves (because remember: we are selfish and destructive concerning our own lives since the great fall) we must regard the rules as good and therefore beneficial.
In Laymen's terms, the reason why the rules are in place is because they are beneficial to us. And the reason they are beneficial to us is because we are in the image of God, and God is the rules. Therefore by doing something which is like God, we are doing something to benefit ourselves and Him at the same time.
So when you think "Why?" the next time you are disheartened by the "rules" (which, by the way can be summarized in the GOLDEN RULE (see L-O-V-E blog)) just remember that there is a reason, and it is intended to benefit both parties.
But don't be fooled.
Ever since the Fall of Man, we have had a part of us that is NOT like God, which has ruled our bodies, and which has, in effect, taken the desire to do good by these guidelines from us. So now, the Law brings death, and this is why one rule, to love God, was set in place for us to follow, and why Jesus had to die for all the infractions of the law by His imperfect brothers and sisters.
So why are these rules from an ancient book good?
Are the rules good because God made them that way?
Or is God good because the rules are the path to selflessness, which he embodies?
On the one hand, God created existence.
On the other, the rules of good and evil define all forces.
hmm....
but what if?
what if God and the rules were not mutually exclusive?
What if God is the rules, and the rules are God?
Because we are made in the image of God... that means that... to be Godlike we must follow the path he follows... but to be Godlike we must follow the rules..... like a=b and c=b therefor a=c....
God is the rules, because they define who he is, but at the same time... they are defined by Him.
so.
God IS the rules.
therefore, the reason we must follow these many rules is because we are God-like, our nature being benefited from the replication of Him... since we are Him in a way, and the reason the rules are there in the first place is because if they are Him, and He is us, then we are them.
SOOOO... to be beneficial to God and inadvertently ourselves (because remember: we are selfish and destructive concerning our own lives since the great fall) we must regard the rules as good and therefore beneficial.
In Laymen's terms, the reason why the rules are in place is because they are beneficial to us. And the reason they are beneficial to us is because we are in the image of God, and God is the rules. Therefore by doing something which is like God, we are doing something to benefit ourselves and Him at the same time.
So when you think "Why?" the next time you are disheartened by the "rules" (which, by the way can be summarized in the GOLDEN RULE (see L-O-V-E blog)) just remember that there is a reason, and it is intended to benefit both parties.
But don't be fooled.
Ever since the Fall of Man, we have had a part of us that is NOT like God, which has ruled our bodies, and which has, in effect, taken the desire to do good by these guidelines from us. So now, the Law brings death, and this is why one rule, to love God, was set in place for us to follow, and why Jesus had to die for all the infractions of the law by His imperfect brothers and sisters.
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