One of the things I wondered was why God didn't build his own churches? Why did people have to build churches and cathedrals if God was not only responsible for my life, the creation of humanity, and all the animals? Why didn't god build his own places of worship? It seemed like something he could do if he was a powerful as I was taught and had created all those things. Building a church would be such an easy thing to do.It's still a question I muse on today.
Perhaps God doesn't build his own places of worship because if he did he would circumvent faith. But why faith, when faith is belief without evidence. Wouldn't knowledge be better? If God built his own churches, there would be no variety in the places of worship. There would be no temples of the Buddhist, no mosques of the Muslim, no shrines of the Hindu, and no Cathedrals of the Catholics to the mega-churches of the Protestant. I always wondered why God's places of worship weren't built consistently. I also wondered why God hadn't built a church in Eden if man was created to glorify God. Genesis mentions nothing approaching a temple or church.
I was told that God had created the universe and as a child I wondered why God did not build the most magical of places to worship in. But every church I attended was built out of brick and mortar, or wood. They were not built by a god, moreover they had the telltale signs that they were crafted by men. They were not so different from the house that I lived in.
Perhaps God doesn't build his own places of worship because the variety of religious experience and the variety of buildings pleases him? But this makes no sense if you factor in a Christian understanding of God who penalizes non-believers with Hell. Building his own structures would give the prospective believer knowledge of his existence in a real concrete way. Yet, this is something he does not do.
I thought as a child that god could construct a place of worship so out-of-this-world, so magical, that there would be no doubt as to who created it. This structure, built by god, would be beyond our imagination and human engineering. It could be a structure which defies engineering and physics. If god created his own places of worship then they would function as a perfect edifice attesting to his existence.
Eventually, I grew up and I later realized that god doesn't build his own places of worship was the same reason why god didn't author his own books by his own hand. It is because books like the Bible and the Koran, places like Mecca and the Vatican, are the inventions of man, and not of god.
Until the gods erect their own structures for worship, I can not believe in a god.
Why u have to say about God? Better u write nothing.
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