'Why does God allow suffering?'

'Why does God allow suffering?' Dec 28, 2019 17:18:50 GMT theravenking likes this

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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Dec 28, 2019 17:18:50 GMT

Dec 28, 2019 16:52:22 GMT @homergreg said:

I just often wonder how allowing for believing in a creator and that Jesus showed the people of the world how to live the type of life that creator hoped we would make of it, translates into this Omnigod who controls everything in a micromanagerial way while somehow still giving us free will.

I try to find in the Bible, a wonderful collection of ancient texts by many different authors, where it actually says that, and beyond taking words of the praise of men to a creator quite literally, I'm having trouble envisioning the creator in the way religion has interpreted it for us.

That was a very honest post. I wish I had a better answer than this: I felt that way, too, many years ago, and I became agnostic because of it. First, an agnostic theist, then an agnostic atheist. But that was my personal journey.

Earlier humans had a limited awareness of the world around them, and their religious beliefs were influenced by that. Now, in this age of burgeoning science, that view of a supreme being is inconsistent with what you term an Omnigod. Good word, actually. And, where does free will fit in all of that?

Given the vastness of the universe, how could there be a god who created everything, yet still interacts with individual humans? And there are countless variations of human religions, with equally countless contradictions of what is right and what is wrong.