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Originally Posted by Uplift  From what I can grasp, Truth is, or must be the basic make up and unbreakable law of spirit, God, Supreme Being or whatever we call the source and fabric of anything. So this question plagues me. If there is this all loving, all equal, all knowing, supreme whatever, consisting of, or motivated by truth, and it is truly unlimited as numerous teachings expouse, why are some children born as drug addicts, toys for paedophiles, starving, tortured, etc, etc. Why the Tibetans, Indigenous Peoples (anyone remember them)? Does anyone really believe it is their choice, so that they can learn  , if they are lucky? Would you, if you were totally unlimited, totally capable of anything (like the supreme whatever), choose pain and suffering as the ultimate teaching method? Try and tell a sixth month old child being tortured that it just needs to align or adjust it's thinking, and that it is learning an awesome incredible lesson, that the whole thing isnt real. If that is the best that God or whatever can do, then the phrase 'God help us' is useless. If the Supreme Being has limits, where is the truth? If there is no truth, the whole thing falls apart, dog eat dog. So can anyone truthfully give a good answer? |
Not everyone on this board believes the confusing stuff that I just read in this thread.
I suppose you wonder why God allows all of the suffering in the world? Why is it that even the innocent or those who are trying to do good are subjected to pain, sickness, tragedy, and death?
Here's what I think is TRUTH.....
God has a plan for your life and that He knows and understands you. As part of that plan, you live on this earth and are subject to natural and physical laws. You are also subject to the consequences and the results of choices made by you and by others. Yet no matter what happens, you are a child of God and He loves you. He knows, and wants you to know, that your time on this earth is but a small part of your eternal life. God takes no pleasure in your suffering but He knows that difficulties, regardless of their cause, can bring His children closer to Him and can make them stronger.
One of the greatest things God has given us is the ability and power to make choices.
You can choose what is good, or you can choose what is not-so-good. Whatever your choice, you also choose the consequences of your choices. Consequences always come—sometimes immediately, and sometimes later. Choosing good eventually leads to happiness. Wrong choices eventually lead to unhappiness.
The choices you make affect not only yourself, but others as well. You may benefit from someone’s good choice, and someone may suffer from a bad choice that you make.
God respects your freedom to choose. He will never force anyone to choose good, nor will He stop anyone from making wrong choices. He knows that by making choices and experiencing their consequences, you learn the difference between good and evil. As you learn to choose good, you find greater happiness.
With all that said, to specifically reply to something you wrote in your opening post....."Try and tell a sixth month old child being tortured that it just needs to align or adjust it's thinking, and that it is learning an awesome incredible lesson". I can't relate to this comment....I come more from the paradigm that YEAH! bad things happen to good people and God doesn't interfere because it is part of a test to see how we will live this existence.
Could we have done something prior to coming to this earth to dictate our position in this life? I think it's really possible and yet I don't have an answer there. Having done a bunch of research on people that are really involved in channeling, I have read way too much to believe otherwise that FREE WILL if at the center of this existence. Even God, as SUPREME as HE is folllows the Law of the Universe of it's a Universe of confusion (and I believe it's a Universe of Order)
What are your thoughts about this?