You sound like you’re trying to figure out the mind of God?....Further having difficulty understanding some things about life that happen aren’t going to have the answers this side of heaven.
Well it has been said God permits no evil that he will not, in the end, overrule for good. Hence, all evil will result in good before the ages run their course. And how would we see and understand the goodness of God apart from what we see as evil?
The questions can certainly go on and on.....but I know from my own life there are certain things you can only learn by what you suffer - there is no other way. And it’s up to us to ask God what he wants us to know ...and our understanding of whatever we endure.
“You sound like you’re trying to figure out the mind of God?....
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Well it has been said God permits no evil that he will not, in the end, overrule for good.”
Sounds like YOU got him figured out.
“And how would we see and understand the goodness of God apart from what we see as evil?”
Yes, the evil that he created. Remember he’s all powerful, thus evil is part of his creation.
So if he is so full of goodness why does he cause evil to run rampant?
I mean who goes around allowing innocent kids to be tortured and murdered, when he could easily have prevented? Would you? And if you allowed that, would you consider yourself full of “goodness”?
These are really simple questions... but then again I’m pretty simple minded.
>> You sound like you’re trying to figure out the mind of God?
For the sake of simplicity, let’s cast the question in the context of atheism.
The canonical atheist proposes the absence of God through apparent contradictions espoused by the non-atheist. It doesn’t matter whether or not the non-atheist believes in God. What matters is the arbitrary precept that challenges the atheist’s sensibilities.
The atheist isn’t trying to figure out God’s mind... the atheist is trying to figure out another’s spiritual mind.
If there were no mention of God, there would be no atheists.