PeaceMakers

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God”

How do we define values ? One way is to look for the common feelings and motivations among us and give them certain names. This is the way we define love, mercy, passion, grief, and so forth… But then things become so relativistic because our feelings are not exactly the same. Also our experiences in life are totally different. Say for example, love, for a grown up man, is a true commitment, as for a young teen, it is a more sexually oriented feeling. And even our prospective for grown-ups and teens is not standardized. So my example is not going to make sense to most of you!
We got used to live with relative definitions. But every now and then we wonder,”what is the standard? What is absolute?” Then we try to generalize our definitions to give it a stronger base. Still it is not enough because life has no meaning with relativism!
It is our beliefs that set the reference for absolute definitions. But if our beliefs are based on materialistic evidence, we will end up with more confusion. They are relative beliefs!! Therefore they are self-contradicting! I think that is why the bible said,”1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear…”(Hebrew 11). If you continue reading this chapter, you will see how different biblical characters had done amazing things and moved on in their ways. I am sure that life had a true meaning for them.

The first sin in the history of humanity started by the desire of man to be equal to god. So he decided to eat from the fruit of knowledge not for the sake of knowledge but to be equal to god, and here started the longest stroy of conflicts between humans. And then Adam got into a conflict with Eve, Kaeen killed his brother Habeel and the story went on….
Do we really still try to be Gods? I think yes we do. Everyone of us are always trying to put god in limited list of laws and judgements. Because the god we are trying to be is limited, while the almighty god is not limited. We are always trying to put rules for god to work on. But we always forget that god is above rules, he is not even limited by the holy laws, becasue he is the one who placed it and so he is the one who is over it.
You should be saying “Tony got crazy.” what is the relation between trying to understand gods way of judgement and ruling and our desire to be equal to god. I’ll till you what the is relation, when we develop all these rules giving answers to questions that have been always confusing the world about salvation, what is after death…what we are simply doing is that we are trying to put the alighty god with his unlimited love, absolute justice and generous mercy in our minds. We are trying to be gods. Out of lose in our faith in his Mercy and Justice, we try to find rules to justify our questions and worries that was originally born out of our lake of faith.
And the crisis really starts when we have already developed the complete figure about what is god going to do with every single human in this earth during his life and in the coming life. Now we are gods and we cannot listen to other gods, but we work on teaching the other gods the rules of our god. And we all together cannot allow the almighty god to do something out of the rules that we had developed for him to work on.

I hope that any of you could get a point of what I’m saying.

Dear All,

First of all, I’d like to thank Rami for this idea. It is nice to have such blog to post our thoughts and ideas. I’ll post the first question: Do you beleive in an absolute truth? For some of you, this question means a lot. For others, may be, it didn’t ring a bell. Anyways, now you have the question and if you have an answer for it, please post it!.

Miena