When I read about others’ doubts, sometimes I feel totally out of step with my cohorts (literally persons of same generation, time period).
For me the ball game is: is God real?
If God is real, then God can do whatever the hell God pleases. By definition, God is all powerful.
You respond, yeah but show me God violating physical laws. And I’ll say, show me a physical law. What little I hear of physics, it’s making a mishmash of natural law. All we have is statistical averages, what most things do most of the time.
G.K. Chesterton said (somewhere), natural law is really God’s faithfulness. The sun “comes up” each morning because God causes it, not because some law makes it. So if one day the sun doesn’t come up, God can cause that as well.
What gets me is pain and evil.
I know intellectually that God turns pain to good purposes, and compensates us wth something better for what we lose.
But it still hurts.
It hurts those I love.
It hurts the innocent.
And some evil and smug people don’t hurt nearly enough to qualify for the human race.
And I often wonder why the all powerful God doesn’t do a little more to assuage the pain and suffering of the people whom G0d loves.
END OF RANT
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I’m tempted to offer some deep theological response here, but I’ve a feeling it wouldn’t help much. So know that you are in my prayers today. Peace to you.
And in mine, John.
Thank you for your responses. More pain than I intended came out in my post.
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