RE: Do you wish God was real?
June 25, 2015 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 1:36 pm by Metis.)
(June 25, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 25, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Metis Wrote: Original Sin officially, "Natural evil" found in the environment like flesh eating insects and tsunamis are punishment for human actions.
Yeah... that's not Church doctrine and not what I believe in. I can't speak for the people who do believe this.
I don't know if you believe it Catholic_Lady but I can assure you it most certainly is. It's a hard topic to explore but this is a good introduction
http://catholicexchange.com/the-problem-of-natural-evil
Quote:We’ve answered one question only to immediately raise another: Why would God create a world in which it is possible for good things to accidentally cause evil things? The answer is that it is one good thing in particular—mankind—that went astray, throwing the rest of creation askew. What changed it all, according to Scripture, is the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden—an event so catastrophic that it not only estranged us from God, but also wounded the whole of creation in the process. As Genesis 3:17-18 says, “Cursed is the ground because of you! In toil you shall eat its yield all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it shall bear for you, and you shall eat the grass of the field.”
This idea of the whole of creation as suffering from the sin of man—its steward and vital link to its Creator—is echoed in Romans 8:22, where St. Paul writes of a universal expectation of redemption: “We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now.”