the problem of understanding God

As humans we prefer to think that if we're doing the right thing, then good things will happen. we like to think that if we're doing bad things, then bad things will happen. this is not biblical. there is an indication that if you do bad it is recorded and you will be held accountable for it at some point in the future. sometimes this Future point is in the physical world, but quite often this point is off in a different dimension after you die. sometimes bad things happen to you because you're being good. sometimes bad things happen to you because you're being bad. sometimes bad things happen to you simply because you exist. so apparently the point God is trying to make is, so be good for goodness sake. what happens to you physically, to some degree, is irrelevant, but what you do is what matters. this is a tough pill to swallow, people for thousands of years have resisted and rebelled against this biblical teaching. if I do good they want good now and if somebody does bad they want him to get squashed now. the Bible makes it clear that this is how people will feel, but it's simply not how God operates. good and evil will be separated on judgement day according to the book of Life and the book of works. up until then to some degree you're flying blind. you have the ten commandments and Jesus teachings and the old and New testaments as lessons, but it's important to realize that you can't just apply those lessons directly and get the exact same results. for instance we can't just cast lots today and figure out why some bad thing is happening in the country and narrow it down to a person and then take that person and their family out and stone them to death. I don't know, maybe we can, but Jesus seems to resist this idea in the New testament.









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