RE: Is there more to life than this? Join the Alpha Course for a share of the SBD from this series of posts
Hi again mate. Sorry I missed your comment here. As you can see, I try to respond to questions as best as I can. It takes a long time in some circumstances, and also taking care of two young children and work occupy a lot of the time.
I'm definitely not doing these posts for money. If it was for the votes and money, then there are a lot more topics that would be much easier to talk about.
With relation to the question of suffering, I didn't want to answer it now, because of the following reasons:
- Suffering is a very personal and emotive subject. No matter what I say, it's not going to help those who go through the suffering.
- There is a specific video later in the series that discusses this further, so I was waiting to get to that video before discussing.
But since I'm here now, I'll briefly answer @progressivechef to the best I can, but it's not going to be satisfactory when suffering is involved. OK, so here goes:
One of the reasons there is so much suffering in the world, wars, child trafficking, rape etc. is that God gives people free will, and all these horrible things are usually a result of evil choices that people made.
I'll answer more directly to @progressivechef's commenT separately.
Blessings
Its ok, I am well aware of what its like to have many responsibilities. I have 3 blood children and 20 people living in my community of which I am basically a father for as well as business and other projects.
Yes I totally agree. We have free will as do all beings.
So now the question is what do we do with that? Regardless of if anyone believes in god or not we still have fee will.
Yes suffering is real and maybe its just part of life, no one likes it yet there answers, there are solutions.
Again ideals would solve this. If we lived according to our ideals even if we had some suffering we would not waver in our ideals, we would find a solution, we would adapt, we would evolve.
Blessings~*~