....humans to suffer?
2007-03-08 07:58:25 · 13 answers · asked by Just Ask Ashley 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We do live in "blissful utopia". But we choose to hide from God in this physicality. This physical system is not our true state. It is a play, a makebelieve, a dream. We never left God, nor could we.
2007-03-08 09:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God allows the devil to exist because if he didn't we wouldn't really have much of a choice but to choose him. He gave us free will to decide what we want to belive and choose, so therefore he is just letting us practice our free will. God is not tryign to be mean, but temptation can help strengthen your faith. We once had a nice blissful thing, but Adam and Eve ruined it. God gave us another chance because he loves us. God does not want humans to suffer.. God loves us, why would he want us to suffer?
2007-03-08 08:11:05 · answer #2 · answered by Leah Hootenanny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's an old phrase that describes the "original sin": "O happy fault, O neccessary sin of Adam." Socrates said it another way: "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Attributing all the ills of the world to a supernatural demon is a tactic of victimization and a shirking of personal responsibility. WE make choices that have consequences, sometimes in ignorance, sometimes deliberately, out of fear. To refuse to learn, to leave it all up to God to take care of us is to deny the gift of reason and to refuse to grow up. Suffering is a perception with a huge range. One person's devastating tragedy is another's minor inconvenience, and one person's blessing may be another's curse. The devil is a scapegoat for moral cowards.
God gave you a brain, use it. Figure out how to build the utopia yourself. Sure, it can't be done, there are too many contradictions in the idea, but in the trying you learn how to compromise between gain and loss, between legal justice and compassionate mercy. You eventually come to understand why God is as God is.
Or you can put your diaper back on and wait for your bottle and blankie.
2007-03-08 08:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Devil exists so that we will CHOOSE God.
We are promised blissful utopia...in heaven, but to get there we must choose god.
You wont suffer if you believe in God, Trust him and ask him to help. Then be Patient. God answers in his own time, because he knows whats best.
If you asked him "please lord pay my rent" and he doesn't, remember that you might have to move to a cheaper place because next month you will be right there again.
He wants us to be happy. If we listen to what he tries to show us everyday.
2007-03-08 08:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by chersa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God had set up a blissful utopia, it was called Eden. No one was suffering. We chose disobedience. This is not God's will. God gave us the dignity of choice.
We can also choose to get back into agreement with God.
2007-03-08 08:07:41 · answer #5 · answered by MythBuster 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is all about choice. It is thru the ugly we recognize beauty.
Suffering is an option. Read Job.
He allows challenges to strengthen us. Sometimes, it seems drastic- but He will do whatever it takes to get our attention.
This is personal experience and I am living a blissful life in the midst of chaos.
Be blessed, love you!
2007-03-08 08:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he can! and for that we are victims of the ultimate sin and the ultimate injustice. God is the true sinner, because he has the ultimate responsibility for who we are and what we do. We are asked to repent what he made us. If He doesnt like us, then he can just bite his own tongue and stop trying to blame us for what he made us. We can not help who we are, but He can, so I say let God repent His sins, and stop being the bully with an ant hill.
2007-03-08 08:05:47 · answer #7 · answered by Jamie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blissful utopias are boring.
2007-03-08 08:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God facilitates the enemy to tempt us so as that we come to Him for help. The enemy replaced into an angel at one time and knows what it takes to get us to provide as much as him. So, we pick God extra effective than ever. as quickly as we succumb to the enemy's techniques, we are able to repent by Confession. Then, we are able to be forgiven by skill of our mericiful God.
2016-11-23 15:48:04 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A god with a hell is an evil god, so I'd say, assuming the god in question is a god with a hell, because he's an evil nit.
2007-03-08 08:13:14 · answer #10 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋