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RE: Why do good people suffer or better yet why does anybody suffer.

in #religion8 years ago (edited)

People have a hard time understanding suffering because they think that this world is all there is. This world is nothing but a "boot camp" for training God's children to serve in the Age to come. Suffering in Boot Camp is always part of the process.

Flesh and blood beings are just expendable avatars in God's boot camp "video game". He knows what counts is the immortal beings who operate those avatars. We think it's a big deal to get killed in this world, but don't worry at all about being "killed" in a video game. Our flesh and blood avatars work the same way, and we are promised new ones when these have been faithfully "expended" in God's service.

So, when you, confined to what you can see around you in God's "video game", start passing judgement on the Creator of the game - and decide to make up a Creator you like better, what you get does not have anything to do with the Greater Reality outside that video game. All you get is a fictitious being you invented that is compatible with your very limited understanding.

On the contrary, the only way you can possibly know anything about the real Creator of the Greater Reality is if that Creator chooses to reveal something about it to you.

I believe the Bible is that revelation and I study it to learn something about the Greater Reality.

I don't dismiss it because the description of the Greater Reality is incompatible with my limited model of the Video Game in which I am currently constrained to play.

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