Touche. May I inquire as to why God is portrayed as a humanoid figure in most religous texts?
In Genesis, it says that, "God walked with Adam in the garden." The way I interpret that is that early followers of God described Him in a human way and gave Him human-like qualities so that He could physically walk.
Moses asked God if he could see His glory? "God said you may see the back of me..."
Really what is it with the Bible? Knowledge is a sin, wanting proof instead of just blindly believing is looked down upon and even at times required that you don't ask for it first. It's almost like this God doesn't want us to develop and grow in any way.
To my knowledge of what the Bible says, (and I certainly don't know it all), in regards to knowledge, God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of 'good and evil', lest you shall surely die...
What this tells me is that the tree wasn't the problem, disobeying God's command is what got Adam and Eve kicked out of Eden.
The word die could mean separation from the Father. Because the word death could mean sleep that we don't wake up from or a spiritual death.
Everyone sounds as if they think God is human, God is Spirit.
And the religion feeds on the instinct; that everyone wants to be part of the big 'roject' or life and the fear of the afterlife. Other reasons are because of the unanswerable question of 'what is the meaning of life and why we exist', people don't like the idea of not knowing what the answer is, so they use God as a reason. This frees them of the burden of trying to discover the meaning of their existence and gives them a set of rules to follow in life, making it easier.
Jesus, in the New Testament, warns of religion and religious zealots. Telling His disciples not to act like them, and telling us, as believers, how to pray: "Our Father, which art in heaven..." in our closets, not openly, outside like the heathen do. In other words, we're not to show off. Other's will know us,(believers) because they see Jesus living in us, by how we act and what we say.
Anyway getting back here if God created all things, why did he create viruses, parasites, and harmful bacteria?
I asked my mom a similar question when I was, I think 7-8. I asked her, "why did God make flies, I hate flies!" "They can't be good for anything!"
She said that we may not understand why God made flies and insects but He did make all of the those things and flies do serve a purpose, that I later learned was to remove flesh from dead creatures.
Parasites, of the 'social' type teach us who not to hang around with in an intimate way. The type of 'rat flea' that experts say led to the black plague teach us how to improve our living and working conditions by practicing better hygiene and sanitary waste management.
Viruses and harmful bacteria, provide humans with the knowledge of how different species interact with one another, helping us to better fight new emerging strains of influenza. One day we'll learn what causes cells to become cancerous so we can detect it sooner, or avoid it all together.
I also believe that God made us to be curious. The Bible does say that," we are to test the spirits."
If all of us were of perfect health we wouldn't need each other that much, apart from social interaction.
