(April 21, 2011 at 4:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Hi CinjinWhy couldn't god foresee this suffering and come up with a different plan? The way you make it sound is that there are physical laws that even god must abide by. If he is god, he could just change the laws. If god is capable of stopping the suffering but doesn't then he is responsible. I know that some people believe that suffering is god's way of testing and bringing about enlightenment, but then why the varying degrees of suffering? Why would god test some more than others?
God never sits deciding who gets bad stuff and who gets good stuff. Such stuff is the result of this cosmic order we inhabit. God initiated the positivity. Not God is the negativity. As an active God, God sits on his throne running everything.
God doesn't stop the suffering (he allows it, he ordered it (this natural order)), but God isn't choosing to cause suffering.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
