Tuesday, May 3, 2016

How could God let this happen?

The sceptic scoffs: 

"How could there be a God? Look at this world; all its destruction, suffering, disease, poverty, pollution ... Where is your God? Why doesn't this God do something about these problems?"

As hard to believe as it seems, the answer is simple. 

If we check the premises of these seeming contradictions, we see the problems:
1) Material destruction is bad
2) Pain is bad
3) Death is bad

But nothing of the physical lasts forever. Nothing of the spirit ever dies. 

Pain is the physical body's reaction to resistance on the part of the mind. 

Attempting to preserve the physical world at the price of repressing the spiritual causes pain and suffering. Trusting your higher self you can leave the physical, or remain to learn the lessons it teaches. 

Finally, judging any other person or group's experiences as bad is to deny them their free will. We all make choices. To suggest that someone should be "saved" from the consequences of their choices is denying them free will, no matter how benevolent your motives. 

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