RE: What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity
July 30, 2023 at 4:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2023 at 5:00 am by Nishant Xavier.)
(July 29, 2023 at 8:25 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(July 29, 2023 at 4:11 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Yes, God knows everything, absolutely. Where's your Evidence that God is allegedly short-sighted as the 2nd part of your question claims?
According to polemics, your god doesn't know how to solve the Problem of Evil without permitting evil. So there's one bit of short-sightedness right there.
I should think an omnipotent god could teach humans compassion and gratitude without, you know, making them suffer evil. I didn't have to kill my son to teach him that killing is wrong. Why can't your god impart compassion as easily?
The Mother of God once told a Saint, and this is important: "The Glory of Eternal Life and Happiness is incompatible with the Shame of not having duly labored for its attainment."
Eternal Happiness is so Great a Good that in light of it a little temporal suffering is infinitesimally small. That doesn't mean we should cause or be indifferent to people suffering, not at all, we already saw above Christ taught to love all neighbors and even so-called enemies and provide for their material and spiritual needs. But it does mean, we should all value and love the Great Good of Eternal Happiness for ourselves above all, and consider the Cross we have to carry to get there to be little and light in comparison.
That's what it means to seek the Kingdom of God first: and those who do that will have all else added to them, according to the Lord's Promise, and the Saints' experiences. Seek Eternal Happiness first. Btw, any sufferings you bear, and bear patiently, for the Love of God, as the Martyrs did, Earns/Merits Eternal Rewards.
More can be said, but that should suffice for now.
Did I miss anyone?
