God has created a relative universe meaning that all actions have reactions.
systematic annihilation of Neanderthal
Was the Creation of Neanderthal a divine mistake and their reign on earth a waste of Time?
Does the story of Earth LOOK like the slow execution of some grand plan anchored in Peace?
This is my opinion:
For ever action, there is an equal and opposing reaction. God gave mankind free will. The first question to answer--the question that people have asked in several ways and forever--What is man's purpose, what is the meaning of life, why are we here? Your destiny is what you make it. I do not believe in coincidences but that things that happened because of you was because of your choices--you chose to be there, you chose to do something--free will. Of course, your life is affected by others' free will as well--drunk driving deaths, planes flying into towers, serial killers, idiots on Facebook. If the planet explodes or we die from our own pollution, free will. So what would be the purpose? To learn. Would you want your girlfriend to stay with you because she had no choice? Would you want your children to never be taught anything? Let's assume that God does not want his children to love and worship him because they are blind and have no choice. God was seriously into equal rights--he gave us the right to make our own decisions. In order for us to make that decision, we need to know things. How do we truly know what love is if we never experience hate? How do we know compassion and tolerance if we've never experienced discrimination or self-righteous judgment? You see how that works? For every action, or in this case emotion, there is an equal and opposing reaction. You learn something from everything you experience. The choice you make as to how you want to be--an asshole or a nice person--reflects what "you" chose to take from your environment--your classroom. You can take the bitterness of your environment and continue it, or you can say this is not good, it is not right, it makes me feel bad--I'm not going to be this way. Or, suppose you had a great life experience and all was the Brady Bunch show--but because you never experience bad things, you did not know how to cope with it when it happened, or you did not understand the plight of the poor. Get a job! Get an education! You think you know so much but really, you know nothing Jon Snow. You turn your back on those who need help, scoff at them, avoid them. You stayed in your bubble wrap and think that those people do it to themselves and will have to deal with it. Then God asks... what did you learn? What will you say? I really improved my tennis game--some golf courses are better than others--there are enough trees to go around--it's only a fish--yeah well, I worked hard to get what I have, they can too... lack of true knowledge turns into excuses and shows your ignorance.
The flip side, God asks what have you learned... and you say that people are evil and cruel and deserved what I did to them. God will say, You know nothing because all you saw was bad, you missed all the good. A leaf, a flower, the wind on your face, a baby, the smile of a person, music, art, hugs---all the things that make people happy regardless of where they live or how destitute they might be.
God does not allow people do bad things to you or others, nor does he interfere (free will), but at the end of the day, he will know your heart and say... lets go home... or he will cast you back and keep casting you back until you learn. (I believe in soul progression.)
Neanderthals were not annihilated, they evolved. I watched a UK documented and they were so into the theory that Modern man killed off the Neanderthals and I kept thinking about how people who know nothing make good money. There's a lesson.
God created man in his image (Bible), but the writers of the Bible were not witnessed to anything God did. They were choosing stories that were passed down over hundreds of years by their tribal leaders, fathers and grandfathers. Science has proven there are factual mistakes in the Bible (sun issue was groovy), so that screams that God did not dictate that book. Ok, but let's go with the God created man in his image... what image? Did the writer of the Book not want to be thought of as a Neanderthalish person with a non-contemporary language? Or, because the Bible was written as I believe, that the writer created man in his image assuming that, because of their lack of science, men had always looked like him, spoke like him, and thought like him. Consider the Bibles or scriptures of other cultures... they too have a God, and a person that resembles a Jesus like figure. Are they really the same but twisted to reflect the culture of that society? Did we not evolve from many Gods to one God and from sacrifices to appease said God(s) to realizing that wasn't working? People still died from earthquakes and disease and droughts still happened.
The stories in the Bible reflect the time frame and superstitions of the writer, and every person or religion that edited it, inserted what they wanted people to believe--it's a control factor. Politicians do the same thing when they want the people to stop complaining--terror alerts, we need them to protect us, and when they want to make it look like they are so into helping us--shutting down the government for the sake of what's right for the people.
It's all about perception.
Feel free to beat me up over this long post--you have free will to choose to do so, but keep in mind, God is watching you and taking notes.
