(September 16, 2015 at 11:55 am)Lek Wrote:(September 15, 2015 at 11:58 pm)Shuffle Wrote: Would you say that you have a personal relationship with your god? If so, then how do you not understand the most fundemental questions of his actions?
And why did you ask me why things exist anyway?!
I have a personal relationship with God in that I can go directly to him with my concerns, but I don't have conversations with him. I don't know his mind. I know that Adam and Eve lived an idyllic existence before they disobeyed God and now they and all mankind does not. How literal the story of the Garden of Eden is, I don't know. But as far as the "bad" things that happen in the world go, I believe that experiencing them, with God taking us through teaches us dependence on him and forms us into the people we need to be to inherit the kingdom of God.
The reason why I asked you why anything exists is that you were looking for a reason for "bad" things, but don't seem to care why the cosmos exists.
I don't care to know the reason for anything. Like I said, I only asked to understand the theist psyche better. Nothing more, nothing less.
