God - Why Absent in the entire world?

Turn on the TV news and also you could really feel overwhelmed by all the awful stuff - terrors of
genocide atrocities by terrorists, suffering of displaced destitution which is not forgetting crime, and the
menace of pollution. You think of something horrible and you also will not have far to look for it. Who
cannot see the requirement for unselfish concern to be far more energetic in our world?

If empathy for the oppressed, and all loving kindness originate in a transcendent loving and wise God,
then we desire his existence for combating societal evils. After all seems to have existed in the past him
if we're to believe sacred texts. Not the invented punitive god of condemnation and punishment but
rather the compassionate God of wisdom and love, as shown in the life span of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The Gospel records numerous other things that we don't frequently witness in our time, and Christ
seeming to people, performing wonders that amazed the public, talking audibly. Why is this? Why was
God so willing to show and demonstrate himself in Bible times but appears "concealed" and silent now?
Make his second coming when we all really want him?

State of human consciousness that is internal

One solution for this question can be viewed in the spiritual theories of 18th century philosopher
Emanuel Swedenborg. According to him, over a large number of years, consecutive generations of the
planet 's population have got and passed on a growing disposition of self-orientation. In other words
we've become increasingly more inclined to rely on self-wisdom, pursue self-interest, and need our own
manner in things.

The claim is that as a result of this accumulated egoism, humankind just hasn't been adequately
spiritually advanced to take on board the loving wisdom of God's teachings e.g. about loving the
neighbour. If we let love of self rule our hearts, then this gets in the manner of any concern for the
needs of others. Swedenborg maintains that in the subject of faith this increase of self-orientation has
shown itself as double-standards. Hence the slow death of organised Christianity where it has revealed a
hypocritical and judgmental attitude. How can humility, or reasonable toleration, authenticity of ethics
of goal survive in this type of climate?

If accurate I think this kind of apocalyptic view concerning the 'end of the world' of faith means a lot of
people have thrown the baby out with the bath water. In rejecting the old faith they have thrown away
their acceptance of God's presence.

A lot of people live in accordance with their non-religious lights. Not all capitalists use their workers
approximately lack admiration for the natural environment as to cause harmful rates of pollution. A few
unfortunately yet decide to permit self-orientation to govern their activities and turn it into an
overriding love of self. Then it's clear how greed for money might grow. In this scenario the desire for
profit, no matter what the outcomes for the wellness of the environment or the working states of staff,
will predominate their business decisions.

Not all national leaders, confronted with competition from various other nations, begin a war for the
benefit of military conquest, or faced with opposition from within their particular folks resort to tyranny.

Not everyone, with fundamental beliefs, is a fanatic, others that are killing and displacing people from
their homes within their hundreds of tens of thousands, as is occurring now in Syria. However, I'd say if
people that are disadvantaged and aggrieved follow a propensity -orientation, then they're exposed to
terrorists' propaganda - falling for the delusion that power and glory comes from identifying with a
political cause whatever the humanitarian cost.

Swedenborg also has described another attribute of our spiritual environment. One Swedenborg says
has developed recently. It is an epoch-making re-ordering of what Swedenborg terms our 'spiritual
world' which is a kind . In being separated from the insidious influence and power of religious
associations, we have freedom of thought. This new internal liberty Swedenborg says has resulted in a
fresh intuitive appreciation of what's good and authentic among people.