is your god all about love?

Question

or is he more about suffering?
or is it 50/50??

so the concensus is that god is not responsible in any way for the suffering of the world-yet he is ALL powerful???
hmmmmmmmm

Answer 1

My God is all about love, as far as I know.

It's people and life itself that brings the suffering and the programming that you have to change when you meet this love.

Answer 2

Opinion. God is about love. Physics is all about suffering if you take a false step. Chance seems to happen more to the unwary, but can happen to anyone, I imagine. Parents are supposed to guide you through most situations. Besides that let your intuition be your guide. It can be developed tremendously. Ezekiel talked about a still small voice in one translation and the best directions have always come through revelation, imagination and even dreams. In every situation the most loving way is usually the best or the key to the way to go. Fear I suppose is the opposite, too much fear tor long and the like. We all read from our perspective and get different messages. As we lighten up so does the same text and we see what we are ready for, a truly living word. Just putting emphasis on a certain word changes sacred texts and so does looking up the synonyms and understanding the symbology. Only the intuition, subconscious mind can view the whole text in context and dig out the best meaning for you and what you are going through, that's probably why the intuition is your best guide, a sort of helper. It can sort out the whole cosmos that it is aware of also, so the more you know the more it has to work with. We have been given a great tool. It's only taken eight thousand years to learn how to use it. We're a too also. I like that. When we get in harmony with ourselves we're in harmony with the universe and that brings peace and insight. And as Enn said, forgiveness. How can you love if you don't forgive? And charity begins at home, forgive yourself too, you have to, it was yesterday and this is today and today, the ever eternal series of presents.

Answer 3

Sun-God is more about wearing long sleeves, sunglasses and praying him up in the morning and down at night. Mostly the long sleeves help us to avoid the suffering. For those with conspicuously large noses and protruding ears, a hat or cap with a long visor might be advised.

Sun-God hasn't paid much attention to matters of love, but He's also neglected to demand the killing of the neighbors and whatnot.

I'd call it 100%, give or take, not about love. And 100% also not about smiting anyone hip and thigh, or stoning anyone to death.

Middling good balance there.

Answer 4

Yes, the one and only God is about Love. People bring suffering upon themselves

Answer 5

First of all, I wasn't raised in any religion, so my spirituality is pretty much innate and the result of lots of study and exploration. Hence, though I believe and have faith in God, I mostly think religion is man-made.

So here goes.

God is about love, but with that He has expectations that we'll live good lives. Frankly, I think he finds us interesting to watch -- didn't you ever have an ant farm?

As for suffering, I hardly think God does anything mean-spirited. [Isn't that the devil's modus operandi?]

What it all boils down to for me is that we have free will. I can go out and be nice to people, just as a sniper can choose to go buy a gun. While God presumably approves of my behavior, he's not going to wrestle the gun away from the sniper. But what about the people who will be shot? -- that I simply don't know. I lost ancestors in Nazi concentration camps, so suffering is something I've long struggled to reconcile -- people say "six million people were killed," but that was just the figure for Jews; the total was in the 9-12 million range. That's astounding. People ask, "How can God allow such suffering?," but I don't think it's a matter of Him allowing anything -- it's just humanity having free will and acting independently, so you have a psychotic like Hitler persuading more and more people to follow him and start persecuting others, and there you are.

Anyway, though God doesn't CAUSE suffering, He doesn't generally step in to halt it. If you meet a mugger, God isn't going to snatch the jerk's gun out of his hand -- the mugger is practicing free will. But if you think about it, you also have free will in the form of a choice -- you can just stand there and be mugged, or you can summon the strength to put up a fight by knocking the gun out of his hand, or kneeing him in the groin.

Now here's the sticking point for me, and I hope this won't make you think I'm an utter kook. I've started to conclude that what happens in this life just doesn't matter at all. We are souls temporarily trapped in mortal bodies, but since we have no real knowledge of that it's safe to say our conscious minds are not the same as our souls. In other words, our souls aren't driving the bus, our brains are -- our souls are merely observing. So if we have anger or hatred or pain from disease or pain from tormentors, those simply cease to matter once we're dead and our souls are set free. People like to talk about being "reunited" with loved ones who have passed on, but do they actually think we look like humans in the afterlife? How are you going to recognize Grandma? The real kicker is that maybe there really isn't a hell -- maybe Hitler's soul is up there in God's presence in whatever heaven is. Trust me -- and I mean TRUST me -- that doesn't delight me at all, but it nonetheless occurs to me. Hell, I've even heard people hope that when they die they get the answers to all the questions they have about life, but maybe once we die we simply don't care about those trivial matters.

However, though I'm starting to believe this, I nonetheless am still compelled to lead a good, benevolent, ethical life, because as I mentioned there surely must be some sort of retribution to pay for sins -- even if it's having to spend a week in, say, Pittsburgh or Detroit. :-)

What it all boils down to is that we're NOT here simply to live a peaceful and perfect life. What would be the point of that? [God gives us life -- a pretty magnificent gift -- but He doesn't owe us anything else.] There's a theosophical argument that God allows only enough adversity to happen to a person as that person can stand -- or perhaps a bit more, so that the person learns and grows. Regardless, the fact remains that this life is merely temporary. If a person suffers terribly for a few years, that's just ultimately inconsequential when one considers the concept of eternity. And perhaps there really is such a thing as karma, in which case perhaps a life of suffering or a ghastly death earn you a much better view from your condo in heaven. Ok, that was flippant, but you get my drift.

Ok, I've done too much thinking -- I have to go rest my brain. Excellent question, by the way!

Answer 6

God the Father and His son, Jesus Christ are all about love, light, enlightenment, learning and people learning how to get along using their freedom of choice to learn both the good and the bad.
Suffering comes from making bad choices, from stealing, lying, jealousy, greed, anger and hatred of anyone other than one's self. Most people bring on their own suffering from poor choices made in their lives, others suffer from the sins committed by others. God and Jesus forgive us of our sins and give us not only second but third and fourth and fifth ad infinitum chances to learn how to get it right. Forgiveness is the key to love. Learning to forgive others is the key to peace and harmony. Learning not to sin anymore is the key to freedom and happiness that comes from freedom from sin. It can happen.

Answer 7

God is beyond any human emotion, even though all emotions begin through It.

However, love is one silken thread to realize It. Through love one loses self, finds one is just a tool, does service with detachment and abides in the Universal Self.

Answer 8

My God is loving, but he does not tolerate certain things such as murder, rape and breaking the ten commandments.
We need to believe in Him and in Jesus and keep his commandments, in order to live eternally in Heaven.
Suffering is caused by man's inhumanity to man.
May God bless you.

Answer 9

There is only one God and he IS all about love.

Answer 10

God does not love me...I love him.

To me, God is the vacant lot that you can build your house on.