Christopher
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- Aug 7, 2009
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Has anyone out there NOT asked God why terrible things happen to good Christians and innocent children while un-godly mugs like this average JOE skip through their lucky lives, well fed and comfortable while pointing out the fallacy of believing in gods that were invented in the last 1% of our species history?
Has anyone received an acceptable answer? If you have, please share!
Yes, I have. I will not go into specifics other than to say I had an experience which caused me to have the same question. I had reflected on the situation for a few hours, took a walk and afterwards just asked God openly "why". Immediately I felt an overwhelming feeling of peace, love, and compassion which I will never forget. I had my answer: "Be at peace."
As much as I appreciate your personal, and apparently heart-felt expression of your feelings by quote of this well used response to the question, in other words, I believe you are sincere, but I've heard that answer LOTS of times from a large and diverse group of sincere people, and I’m calling ‘bullshit’.
If God IS, why is luck, both good and bad, an equal opportunity and overwhelmingly random gene which respects absolutely NOTHING concerning belief in a higher power?
"Why is THAT guy lucky and SHE’s constantly getting crapped on?"
"Why does the Armor of God not prevent cancer?"
The best answer I ever heard to this line of questioning was, "Compared to God, every last one of us is just as bad as Hitler and Wesley Alan Dodd combined, that's why it sometimes seems that you see unfair amounts of bad shit happen to good people."
Bullshit. Statistically, we SHOULD see unfair amounts of bad shit happening to good people, ass-u-me-ing that is, that most of us know more good people than we do assholes and infidels.
Compared to God, we're no better than Hitler and Dodd. I'll bet NOBODY truly believes that everyone they know should rate the same level of shame as those two worthless examples of what evolution and relative freedom can produce, not even knowing the one person they've known the longest and most intimately... not if they also believe we were created in Gods image.
My current mouth, along with my knowledge of correct Biblical attitude and the rules for 'right and wrong' SHOULD be combining with the underlying responsibility for that knowledge once you have it to result in a brief weather headline and a lightning statistic.
Yet here I sit, a lucky guy…. Let alone the everyday good shit in my life like a slightly inconvenient warning on a pending critical part failure when there’s plenty of time to deal with it and paid time off to stop the bleeding and get the repairs underway... When I think about the times I didn't get caught stupid handed when I could have.
Can an American believe that another American is an ‘infidel’ without tearing at the fabric of the Spirit behind “America”?
Well, you did ask if anyone had received an acceptable answer. The answer I received was acceptable to me. It does not work for you probably because you did not receive the answer.
The "best answer you heard" I disagree with. I believe we were shown the things that would happen to us in this life before we were born. I also believe we accepted them and perhaps even prepared for them.