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Beware of theological hair splitting!
The theological hair-splitting that often characterizes the noble Christian religion can become a serious [and
even dangerous] thing. Why? Because, sooner or later, it's false sense of honesty [as well as of intellectual
integrity] will fall under it's own weight (getting the Christian believer seriously depressed).
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In other words, deep down inside, his soul will start groaning, wondering the reason why, if Christian
theology is the absolute truth, he still has to labour so hard [doing all sort of dizzy intellectual gymnastics, as
if he were holding the post of a White House press secretary] in order to justify what any otherwise objective
and rational being would immediately recognize as being just loud theological fanfare, bold suppositions,
hyped conjectures, false syllogisms, half cooked lies, wishful thinking, brazen incoherences, and shameless
contradictions.
And the former might [partially] explain the reason for the grave problem of severe depression, mental
diseases, and suicide cases currently sweeping through so many Christian communities. And why would this
be so? Because Christianity's open abandonment of God's Law makes it's followers liable to fall under the
curse of madness, and of mental confusion foretold by God's Law.
As is written: «BUT IF YOU DO NOT OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD BY CAREFULLY FOLLOWING
ALL HIS COMMANDS... these curses will come and overtake you: ... THE LORD WILL AFFLICT YOU
WITH MADNESS, BLINDNESS, AND MENTAL CONFUSION»- Deuteronomy 28: 15 & 28, Christian
Standard Bible. May the Creator have mercy of our dear Christian brothers!
The relationship between God's sovereignty, free will, sin, and suffering
The way Reformed Samaritans explain the relation between free will, sin, and suffering is the following: God
initially created all souls in a perfect state, and in a perfect environment-- a heavenly [non physical] realm
with no evil, pain, disease, death, suffering, ignorance, strife, injustice, condemnation, etc.
But, after an almost infinite amount of time, the created souls yearned to "grow up", in order to become
moral entities [thereby becoming like their Heavenly Father, who not only knows good and evil, but also
makes goodness conquer evil just as light conquers darkness]. Thus, God created a physical realm filled with
pain and evil-- a sort of "school" for the souls, where the latter could willingly choose to attend.
Thus, whenever a heavenly soul wants to increase it's moral stature, it is given the opportunity to choose
beforehand the kind of physical life it wants to experience on Earth-- how much pain, suffering and bad
decisions it needs to experience, in order to continue it's journey toward moral perfection.
But, before making such decision, the soul can pick all the details of it's earthly journey-- when will it be
born, where will it meet it's end, what will all of it's decisions be, and what kind of punishments and/or
rewards will such decisions entail.
Once the soul makes it's final selection concerning the kind of life it wants to experience, it is asked to sign
it's name upon the Book of Life. Why? So that if [in the future] any soul dares accusing God of it's personal
sufferings, it could be demonstrated that it was the soul [and not the Creator] the one who chose the Life such
soul now experiences.
After the soul makes it's final decision, an angel strikes it's forehead [thereby making it forget everything it
has experienced in heaven], and immediately places it inside the womb of it's future mother.
The soul will then be born, and proceed to experience the life it has already chosen. At the end of it's earthly
journey, when the soul is in the process of transitioning back into it's heavenly real, it is given a fast review
of it's whole life, so that it can pass judgment upon it.
If the soul has been walking the path of those who seek God, a congregation of "past graduates" comes to
cheer and salute it [just as if you had been running a long marathon, and your intimate family members are
waiting for you at the finish line].
But, even if the soul had chosen a wrong lifestyle, if the soul's [sincere] judgment is, “The life I have lived
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was wrong; if I could start all over again, I would make it better", that alone would be enough for it to “pass
it's grade”, and therefore be allowed to stand again with the righteous, back in the heavenly realm.
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