As the atheist and agnostics say, why would a loving God allow or even designate suffering? Well, to those people who ask… here is what I need you to know: I think in the bottom of our hearts, we want the same. We want essentially a world without sadness, diseases, sufferings, and impurities. Have you ever thought about what you are saying? You are telling me that you want this world to be Heaven! A place that almost seemed too good to be true; a place that cannot be explained by a scientific mind; a place that require your faith and trust to believe.
God had built into our beings a desire for perfection; A perfection that is very much a reality. You may ask, “Why then is the God that you’ve described ok with imperfection and suffering?” Well, God is not ok with imperfection. If He’s ok with it, then there is no necessity for His existence. He has granted us Grace out of His omnipotence, so we have the promises that in His timing, we will not have to accept imperfection as our lot.
So, why are you fighting so hard to be ok with this world of imperfections? I am not ok with this world of imperfection and suffering, and I fight the urge to accept it and to say that there is no hope and no salvation. I resist all temptation to say that there are no more than what we can perceive with our senses. I say that the hope for salvation, Heaven, and eternity with God is the only answer to why we had to suffer, and why there is never going to be cessation of tears on this side of Heaven. In fact there is never going to be true-peace in this world. Continual rejection of the reality of God is the acceptance of imperfection.
Furthermore, the God that is worthy to be worshipped and revered is a God that is completely powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent, loving, compassionate, holy, and able to redeem us from our imperfect condition WITHOUT our merits. If we can earn ‘holiness’ through our actions, then we can achieve god-hood. If we can achieve god-hood, then we ourselves become gods, or god-equalities. That theology ends up with a god that is really not God, and not deserving worship… because, ‘if you work hard enough, you can be god too!’
So, a Holy God is a God that is so pure and perfect that we can never achieve, and never earn a seat at His dinner table… Moreover, it is because of His omnipotence, He is able to grant our ‘redemption’ without us working for it. It’s a gift. It’s Grace!
People of this world work too hard for the wrong goals. The Great Deception started in the Garden when Satan deceived Eve and Adam to disobey God and to earn their ‘supernatural’ knowledge and position to be god-equal, was why we had to suffer. Creation suffers because of that disobedience and our undeserved craving to be god. All creation cannot wait to see perfection revealed… soon.
So, why do atheists and agnostics say there is no God or there is no knowledge of God or why suffering is everywhere or why does people in virtually every religion out there say that they can earn their way into perfection? I think fundamentally our world is still under the original deception. The truth is that, it is easier to lay blame to God why He hasn’t designed the world as they’ve wanted, and why the ‘delusion of God’ had to exist, since religious fervor is ‘unacceptable’ to the scientific mind. It is not an argument for the existence of God. I believe, people are simply refusing to accept a God that they cannot become!
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