RE: Did God just admit to his followers that he's a psychopath?
May 22, 2015 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2015 at 10:35 pm by Lek.)
(May 22, 2015 at 1:23 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Surely an omnipotent god who is alleged to be good could alleviate suffering and do away with evil.
Our perspective is much different depending on whether or not we believe in eternal life. If life is eternal, then life here is not even a blip on the radar screen. If you believe that this life on earth is all we have, then I can be more understanding of you opinion of God. God obviously wanted the possibility of evil to exist since he gave us a free will and created the "tempter". He also wanted there to be suffering here because he created killer storms and diseases and so on. I look at suffering as probably what we go through to form us into the type of people we are to be throughout eternity. I don't know that this is true, but it's possible that those who suffer more here will will enjoy eternity more. If you want to be a US Marine, you must go through rigorous training and pass numerous tests, as you are formed into what it takes to be a marine. This is true of other things that we strive for. God is forming us to be the people we will be for eternity. I don't view suffering itself as evil, nor do I consider God as evil because he causes us to live in an environment in which we suffer. As I pointed out earlier, we purposely bring children into this world knowing that they will suffer. We could use birth control, and still have our sexual pleasure, without purposely bringing poor little children into this world of suffering, but we know that there are a lot of worthwhile and enjoyable experiences here and good reasons to be living here. God also gave us the power and the freedom of choice to make the world a better place. If we truly loved our neighbors as Jesus told us to do, we could alleviate hunger and much disease and suffering, but too many of us don't love our neighbors. That's the way God made it to be. I don't worry about why he made it this way. I'm just confidently living my life under his guidance, knowing that this is just a blip on the screen.
