The Soul Yearns

I just read somewhere that as per scientific estimation, there are over a 100 billion galaxies with billions of stars and planets in each. Till date, we have not discovered life on any of these planets. Either our technology hasn't evolved to a stage where we can see other life forms or there aren't any. Now this reminded me of the verse in Genesis 1 where even Earth was in a similar state. Other than that one couple and some animals, this beautiful planet didn't have any beings that the creator could commune with. He asks Adam and Eve to breed and populate the earth. And since then we have been doing that. Now is it possible that he probably wants his creation to populate the other planets as well? As humans, we are already doing our best to understand the environment and topography of other planets. Maybe some day we will advance enough to conquer and tame these planets. Another possibility is that once we die and leave this earthly body behind we are, accordin...

Continuing on the thought expressed in my previous blog, the ability to give or create life and everything else makes God supreme when compared to the Devil who doesn’t have this specific gift. So God created man and everything else. More importantly, God created man in his own image and he planned to have regular fellowship with him. This basically meant that man had almost all the powers including the ability to think and create that God had. Of course, he was not as powerful as God. No way. The rebellion of the angels, who were much more powerful than mankind, had probably served as a lesson for God that his own creation can rebel against him, and so he better ensure they are not powerful enough to cause serious damage. Devil, unfortunately for him, can't give life and so he can't create anything. But he also needs people on his side if he wants to ensure that the power gap between him and God doesn’t increase so much that he is no longer in the reckoning itself....

Many of us may have struggled with this question. Why doesn’t God just finish off the Devil once and for all and be done with it? Wouldn’t that end all of God’s as well as our problems once and for all? However, even after the ultimate defeat at Armageddon, the devil is just bound in chains and finally pushed into the bottomless pit. Doesn’t that raise the possibility of him coming back to haunt us, and God, again? One possibility is that both God and the Devil are two powerful, immortal energies with different, diametrically opposite powers. God has the power to give or create life but cannot take life. The Devil, on the other hand, cannot create life but has the power to give death. Naturally, we call the former a positive power and the latter a negative or evil power. This could also be the reason why it’s said that it’s impossible for God to do anything evil. Now both God and the Devil are in an eternal struggle for supremacy. Since God has the power to create life, h...