Interesting Musings... at least to me.

So the last couple of weeks I've been interested in Philosophy and Religion and how they affect one another. I personally believe in God, Christ and the Holy Spirit but I wouldn't say that I am Religious. And I also wouldn't say that that is a bad thing. I have a personal relationship with my Redeemer, and I don't think that I "have" to go to a church to make it better. But that is besides the point. My husband is an agnostic. (If you asked him, he would say that he is an atheist...) but if you talk to him and with him about his belief system, you'd realize it's just agnosticism. Lately I've been trying to figure out how it is that so many religions and beliefs can cohabitat on the same planet without some main one thrusting forward and taking dominion over them all. And against common belief Christianity isn't at the fore front anymore. Maybe in some parts of the world, but in others its just as easily Buddism, or Muslim, or even Wicca. So what makes this such a unilaterally diverse subject? I stopped at Border's several times this week and did some research on Philosophy and Religion and found some startling facts. For instance:

• In the year 575 BCE Confucious was born. (The creator and philosophical leader in Chineese history.
• In the year 563 BCE Siddhartha Gautama the creator of Buddhism was born.
• It's estimated that Jesus dying on the Cross didn't happen until roughly 33-30 BCE.
• And it wasn't proven until 725 years after Confucious was born that the earth was indeed round.
• And it took almost 2,000 years for Charles Darwin to come along and proclaim Evolution in 1859.

Now I realize that these may seem like useless peices of knowledge for most people but they blow my mind. I haven't exactly figured out why yet but they do. Just something to do with all of these facts in our history, my personal history and belief system, but with a date stamp on them makes them more stationary in the relative line of life... maybe, but I know that isn't the reason it's blowing my mind either. So, I guess that's food for thought.
While I was studying all of these things I was struck with the dynamic way that God works. When man started to question everything. He didn't do so in a Expansive state of mind... that's to say it wasn't as though one man in Greece contemplated everything in creation and questioned it all. But more it was a questioning of certain aspects in a certain field of wonder. But that the fields were different all across the world at the same time. For instance:

• In Greece, when the Ancients were wondering about math and science.
• The Chineese Philosophers (Confucious) was wondering at the political and sociological aspects
• And the Indian (India) Buddhists were trying to find meaning in spiritual enlightenment.

But I guess what gets me is that all of this was going on hundreds if not thousands of years PRIOR to my Christ coming to earth and dying for my sins. So what was God thinking, or doing, or seeing, during that time that led him to leave us be? And why is it that it took such an act of benevolence for HIS name to be in written history afterwards?

I guess that's just more food for thought as well. I wrote more notes, but I'm going to take a break my fingers hurt and my stomach is a littler queasy.

Ciao,
Jude