(July 28, 2023 at 2:44 am)WinterHold Wrote:(July 26, 2023 at 3:49 pm)emjay Wrote: Nevermind, I guess it's the wrong time and place for levity. Whatever else is going on I just wouldn't wish something like ME or MS on anyone.
Nobody wish them, I never wished for M.S. But how else would humans see that they need a hand to grab, relieving them from the pain?
My comment above doesn't really make sense on it's own. I just said something lighthearted to hopefully lighten the mood, but it didn't feel right, so I redacted it.
Does it not strike you as unfair though, that through random circumstance or Godly whim, some people, like yourself, suffer far more than others in order to be 'tested'? What it strikes me as is capricious, how could you ever trust such a god? And if the OT is anything to go by, that capriciousness, doesn't just apply to individuals but to whole groups; whole peoples destroyed for the sins of a few, or as pawns in someone else's moral lessons.
Quote:I thank God for making me humble through this M.S, to thank him and also thank whoever helped me and people like me, let it be the inventor(s) of Interferon, the researchers who studied this condition, or the people who understood what I have.
I am truly sorry about your condition, but thanking and worshipping the god you believe gave it to you, on a whim no less, makes no sense. You owe yourself more than that. Be thankful to the people around you, who have helped you and studied the condition... that makes sense... but to be thankful to the unseen hand you believe gave you the condition in the first place... makes no sense at all. Like I said before, I think love and respect (or gratitude and worship) should be earned, not just given by default to an assumed creator.
Quote:God doesn't have feelings like ours, he is wise and so practical.
I remember this verse from the Quran, where God explains himself:
Quote:Surah 42, The Quran:
https://quran.com/42?startingVerse=27
(27) Had Allah given abundant provisions to ˹all˺ His servants, they would have certainly transgressed throughout the land. But He sends down whatever He wills in perfect measure. He is truly All-Aware, All-Seeing of His servants.
That quote still does not explain the arbitrary/random allocation of 'provisions' in this sense. Nature alone far better explains the apparent lottery of misery in our world, rather than some unseen hand capriciously orchestrating it all for the moral guidance of some at the expense of others.
