The Enemy that we can’t see.

 

The Enemy that we can’t see.

You can fight what you see and you know your chances. It is much harder to fight what you can’t see and even worst what you believe doesn’t exist. That is the enemy that can destroy you and erase your memory from the history of the earth.  We have significant data showing that great human civilizations succumbed to it. All we have to do is look at the pyramids that exist around our planet. Civilizations of humans existed for thousands of years, built things we can’t build, and vanished. We know that it could happen to us.

There are natural disasters, pandemics, droughts, floods, enormous fires, and races wiping out older races. Some believe in asteroids wiping life away. It’s all possible, and most humans can’t fight worldwide disasters. That is why humans choose to blame God as a great punisher. I believe in a loving God.

He created consciousness attached to a biological computer called the brain. It is maintained by a body that feeds and heals, reproduces, and tells stories. The body moves on legs and does physical things with hands. It took millions of years to become what it is, but for me, it took only one day and I was born and had to learn and grow to be what I am.

He or she, as some prefer, created a being capable of being like him but not forced to do so. Just like every little child, humans wanted free will and God granted. Sadly, He watched us destroy ourselves time and time again until we became teens. He sent prophets, and we killed them. He sent his son, who told us the truth in a way we couldn’t forget… but we killed him as well.

Generations past and the words of the son of God became universally known. It became a religion and split into many more religions. The world will pass away, He said, but my words will not pass away. Leaders of every sort twisted the words to their own advantage, but the truth remains the truth. People die and new people are born and the words keep coming back.

The Great Creator who some call “chance” could have created us a tiny bit different. Instead of giving us the ability to reproduce, he could have made a body that will never get old and die. It is just a little neurobiological instruction that could be made different. When we took free will, he made it the way it is. We can create with our minds, but until we learn how, we create with our bodies. That slows down our ability to destroy ourselves and our world.

Humans are divided into males ruled by cold reason and females sensitive to emotion. All have some of God in us. Not exactly, but close. The humans have developed into races, cultures, religions, age groups, and a variety of abilities.

I am a historian, and I pay attention to history in the making. I have been around for many years and witnessed the change. I saw most of the world gain freedom from colonialism. I met people who took part in revolutions. Never did I seize to wonder why God didn’t save us all the pain and just create a few eternal people. Why did he even bother to give the souls a body at all?

The answer is easy. Creating a creature who is in the image of God can be done in God’s laboratory of the universe quite easily. He is a master at making things that grow and evolve. Not as easy is teaching a creation how to act like God. Try to teach a child how to drive and you will see. God was not going to give the unlearned humans the keys to the car. Yet he created us to be parents and learn why he did what he did.

By making us into many entities the creator caused competition which sent us forward but brought about exploitation and wars. His son told us to be strong and overcome our violent, selfish nature with love and compassion. In that, we failed and our great civilizations imploded. Each time humans got closer to self-extinction and the recuperation periods lengthened.

God, who created time but is unaware of it, waits to see the results of the final test. Events are all polarized into this historical period in human development. Is it going to be me, myself, and I over the cliff, or is it us and we continue on the road. We are close to understanding our spiritual potential, but heading forwards at a dangerous speed.

Both selfishness and love have substantial support amongst individual humans. A great war could destroy us fast and thoroughly or slow and painful. If all the “have not” people march, they will equal the power of those who “have it all” and forever want more.

In a cave in a Greek island, archeologists discovered ancient words from the period before Christianity. “just take what you need and leave the rest.”

 

 

Now my generation is older and became an endangered species. We sit isolated and watch the young people demonstrating, not wanting to wear masks or sacrifice to keep us alive. Their signs say they want freedom. They are everywhere feeling sorry for us saying, die in peace, but we want our jobs and social life back. We didn’t raise them to be “us” but to be selfish “me” people.  On the horizon, there are others fighting them, caring about all of us. Those are people willing to suffer a bit now for the future of all people. We watch helplessly, not knowing who is going to win.

I never asked God to exist during what could be the last days, when the earth will destroy humanity in self-defence. Did He choose for me? In his universe, all things are left to chance that is influenced by human action.

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