A Reasonable Religion

[elysium]

hi mr. sklansky

sklanskyanity works well on paper, however, GOD is not so easily understandable as all that. the incredible vicissitude (yes i have my little webster's) and seemingly utter chaos with which the true GOD orchestrates events, with a dash or so of freewill in the mix, causes mankind to grasp for the advice of the prophet GOD will often throw out to man much as a lifesaver might be thrown to a drowning swimmer. the more turbulent the sea, the more clenchingly man grasps the floatation device throw to him. GOD likes HIS words really held onto like that, and HE achieves that through seemingly random and utter chaos. here is where we run into a problem though.

when beholding the advice of the prophet GOD so chooses to guide man through the turbulence of creation, man does not at first realize the connection between what the prophet is saying and its relation to the true GOD. furthermore, the prophet is almost always the very last person that man wants to have as a lifesaver. in fact, the prophet will appear unto mankind as being in a race with man, and it will seem as if the prophet is hurriedly attempting to get GOD to create a more and more turbulent world, and not a less and less one. and GOD of all things listens to the prophet and not the great majority of the people, and great turbulence erupts that gives the people the mistaken belief that the prophet is somehow forecasting the future. and the people cling faster and faster to the prophetic utterances of the prophet as he leads mankind into cataclysmic ecstasy. however, the prophet is not forecasting the future.

what is happening is that somehow, GOD has enabled the prophet to help mankind to see the interaction of GOD on the planet. the prophet is not seeing the future, mankind is witnessing GOD's interaction between HIMSELF and man. however, mankind finds it easier and more comporting with traditional interpretations about GOD to believe that they are not witnessing GOD but rather witnessing one of GOD's people forecast something or other about the future. worse, the people believe that they are witnessing a prophet foretell the future more than they believe in GOD. this is how much GOD's interaction on the planet appears to be something happening that HIS prophet predicted would happen.

now the prophet, he isn't so foolish. he knows that he can't predict the future. the prophet thinks it to be a great miracle that his words appear to be some sort of prediction. and since he knows that he couldn't have accomplished such a feat, the prophet, due to his own prophetic utterances, draws closer to GOD to whom he gives all the credit. this closer relationship with GOD enables the prophet to hear GOD much more clearly.

it's not too hard to figure out what happens next as the people demand that the prophet forecast good things about the future, and the prophet forecasts the worst since he knows that mankind is angering GOD by recognizing the prophesy but not recognizing GOD. the prophet says, 'you would know that i cannot tell of the future if you could see GOD interacting here in your midst.', and the people scream, 'no! GOD is too chaotic for our taste. but your words, they predict the future....no, no wait. they do more than that. they make the future. please tell us good things then perhaps good things will happen. wouldn't GOD want that?'.

of course the prophet then begins a self deprecating process to end all self deprecating processes, and lowers the boom.

anyway, if the people could distinguish the future from GOD's interaction on the planet, GOD wouldn't have need to send in the prophet. most people stand a better chance of improving their relationship with GOD by studying the recalcitrance of the prophets, and the public's utter distain for them. note too what happens to them those times GOD allows it. petitioning one of those guys for a more orderly GOD is the first step taken before becoming thoroughly convinced that the entire planet is on the verge of a great unstoppable cataclysm. in that way and in that way only do we as humans begin to see the true GOD.