Are we living up to God's will?

Learning Point 369

The problem is not with God and saints but with men when the issue of why despite the diversity of religions and men, few are spiritually close to God. 

Why is this the case when religions and sects have undertaken the job religiously to bring men to God? 

The reasons are many and plentiful. Men though not perfect, always want their way and they think that popular views must take precedence. 

Popular views may not be right and exactly what God wants. It is not question of free will or for that matter popular democracy of religious kind but more a question of insight that only the exceptional rare few will achieve. 

But how can the rare few convince the many or dictate what the many need to believe and to do in matters of spirituality? That is the problem. 

Thus church or temple leadership are at odds over trivial matters that should be sidelined and not considered, all because they want to and have to heed the ground somehow or other. 

Gay issue is one such matter. Is gay sex the design of God? Well, nowadays, no leader dare to ruffle the sentiments of even any odd single segment of the congregation for fear of backlash. 

When ground swell is given unfettered leeway, God it seems will have to listen to the ground and God will have to listen to the bidding of men, not men listening to God and doing the bidding of God. 

Yes indeed God gives freewill to choose what man likes to do with his life and man must bear the consequences. God will want man to live his own life and make it to Him in the end. God cannot live the life for man. 

But this does not mean that men dictate how religions should conduct themselves. The Word or teachings of God should be institutionalized and set as dogmas if need be. 

Thus men have carried out the dogmatisation of God Knowledge or Word to regularize religion as institution. Otherwise there will be no semblance of consensus. This is the basic problem of religion as institution.

But if the teachings of God are made rigid and cast as dogmas, then dear readers, this will be against the will of God to respect the rationality and wisdom of men. 

Unfortunately, men tend ever to be smarter with time and sometimes too smart even for God. Men wants to outsmart others, even God and saints. Men take liberty to change and modify dogmas. Dogmas then are no more than man-made and not dictated by the will of God. 

Through man made dogmas, men do dictate how religions are poised to win over other men and how men should live up to God's expectations. But in reality are they living up to God's will or man's will? 

This is a silly question to many and the majority answer may well be wrong or at least not so right. So have some thought on this. Are we living up to God's will? 

Who should lead? Is it the few man who knows better but who are too way ahead of the crowd or is it the crowd or majority? 

It is easy to say God leads but often this will still end up with some men usurping the leadership for there will be those who want to talk for God and make a puppet out of God and saints. 

The question is still the same. Are we living up to God's will or are we succumbing to the design of bigoted men who make a mockery of God and think and act for God?  

Such bigots claim to be men of God but they instead make God to be merely no more than a God of men? They ironically do make a mortal out of immortal God. God must listen to them.

Immortal God is made out to be like mortal man. He is made out to be one who must win the support of men otherwise he is no longer God. 

Democracy may in fact determine the tune. Perhaps popular decision must and can overrule the wisdom and will of God. Can this ever be the case? Isn't this absurd? 

How sad and pathetic can this be, if this is the case! Definitely, this cannot be evident of the historical Tao principle that "as on earth, so also in Heaven", or is this the case?