Causes of & potential cures for extreme transphobia?

Pure curiosity here. How on the one hand you call the bible basically a work of fiction and not an accurate historical record ( 100% agreed by the way ) but then on the other hand say god exists in all things etc ( don't agree 100% ). I mean, if you're going to believe in one, why is the other such a stretch to buy into?


I do find these conversations interesting and I would never infringe on anyone's right to freedom of religion. The ONLY issue I have is when certain people who are believers try to force their beliefs onto others. This country has come a long way and we are a much more diverse nation as far as culture and religion goes.

No, God does not NEED man. 

kav 

You're anthropomorphizing God. He lives outsize the emotions, needs, qualities etc of man. 

Man needs because he's incomplete. 

God is complete.  He is everything. He is everywhere. He needs nothing. 

What he does, he does for his own purposes and those purposes are always to glorify himself. 

But also, what he does may seen like suffering for many (or all) of us in the short term but ultimately works to good for all of creation as well. 

My belief will differ from jcjames because I don't believe in an eternal hell, or an eternal death. 

I believe that God created everything good, allowed creation to "fall away from him" and he will rescue it all back to himself and once everyone is rescued from their own weaknesses, they will proudly appreciate him for it. 

I can go into detail on why I believe this if you like but that's the short version recap. 

You have to stop looking as God like a man. That's where every religion gets it wrong. 

Start looking at God like a comic book character. All powerful. He created and planned everything and knows everything that's going to happen before it happens. 

So if he created and planned it, how can he hate it?

He allowed evil to enter to act as a foil. To teach us to appreciate the good. 

Once the evil has served it's purpose it will be taken away again. 

Different religions are all attempts at trying to explain what we feel, see or have seen but they all vary culturally because we all vary.

If you think of "God" as a sphere like the earth, and you have 20 people around the earth floating in space at the top of atmosphere equally dispersed around the world, each person will be looking at the same "God" or earth but some will see things similarly, some will see things very differently and some will see the opposite of what others see...and yet they're all looking at the same thing. 

Elon Musk drops the perfect Tweet reply to someone's Tweet regarding Transphobia.

You have to go to Twitter to see it. 

He nails it. 

I shouldnt be so harsh on christianity. That religion has done incredible good for the world.  I know in its essence it must have been from truth because God said "I AM" when asked his name.  And that says it all.