About me and my thoughts

About Me And My Thoughts 

About Me And My Religious And Critical Thoughts

I like to ponder many kind of things (philosophy, theology, science, religions, politics, economy). Besides I am interested in ICT.

I have thought about God (and Satan) and the Bible very much (of course because I have been both a Christian and an atheist, and I used to study theology at university).

From one viewpoint I consider myself as an (almost) atheist and sceptic. But from other viewpoint I am a Lutheran theist and a Christian (based on some subjective and exceptional spiritual experiences). So I am struggling between theism and atheism and I am an agnostic epistemologically relating to religious and metaphysical matters and questions.

God is a highly complicated and even contradictory concept and entity. I am the most familiar with Judeo-Christian God and biblical theology about God (and about Satan). Besides I know about ancient Greece's and Mesopotamia's religious mythologies.

There are many kind of intellectual, scientific and emotional problems with Judeo-Christian God and the Bible


For instance, we have so called theodicy problem in Christianity: if God is omnipotent, all-loving and perfectly good, why there are so much bad and cruel things in the world? So much innocent suffering? This is a remarkably complicated and extreme difficult question, but some philosophers of religion concluded that we have contemporary agreement now: many philosophers of religion admit that there is no any contradiction between omnipotent, all-loving and omnibenevolent God and those bad and cruel things in the world. But some thinkers disagree though.

So, the big question remains still unanswered and I do not know what is the ultimate truth about God: is God an erroneous creature and image of ancient men, or is a man so called image of God, created by God. I am an agnostic, I do not know if God exists or if God does not exist. We have about 10,000 different religions and who knows how many gods. All of those different gods can be just man made superstition and false faith. Or perhaps there are one true religion and a god who really exist - but how we fallible people can ever be sure and know it? Well, perhaps somebody knows or will know it.

Indeed it can be easy to think that Satan / Devil has won and God is weak. Actually the Bible says that Satan is "the god of this world" and "Devil rules the world". But on the other hand, the Bible also says that Jesus Christ has won Satan and Father God gave to Jesus all power in the Heaven and on the Earth. So this is quite confusing. There are so many contradictions in the Bible.

I have a highly little and weak belief that any kind of "devil" really exists. I can think that some kind of vague "greater evil" exists. But so called "fallen angel", Satan, and all this ancient mythology about Satan and demons seems to be not reliable and logical. Well, I do not know. But perhaps someone else can know, knew or will know in the future what is the truth about God and Satan / Devil. Maybe even islam can be the only true religion to believe and obey (who knows?)

All my articles are not a criticism of Christianity and the Bible. I have articles to defend Christianity, God and the Bible, too. I want to be evenhanded. 

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