Evil and God (Ken)

HildaBingen

Dear Ken:

I hope your brother in law is faring well.

You asked about evil the other day and I am now getting back to you on that subject.

I cannot prove that God exists. Everyone has to have the God experience for herself. I can only tell you what has helped me to cope with the problem of evil in the world.

I believe that life is a mystery. It is transrational and cannot be constrained by the human mind. God has left us to make sense of the condition we are in but he has not left us alone in our groping.

Romans 8:20, 21 says that the creation was allowed to undergo a condition of futility. It does not say that God brought futile existence upon humanity. It instead says that God allowed humanity to suffer a futile existence. I believe this "subjection to futility" accounts for the presence of natural disasters in the world as well as Satan the devil's influence on nature. But God allows these things on the basis of hope in Jesus Christ.

I have had the experience of perceiving God in a semi-sensuous way. I know that my Redeemer liveth and you cannot take that away from me. But I understand how you feel in view of evil. God will correct things one day.

Just you wait and see.

Pray to him and read his Bible. Maybe you too will be in Christ.

SYN

Everyone has to have the God experience for herself.
What about men?

I know that my Redeemer liveth and you cannot take that away from me.
I, too, have readeth the King Jameth Verthion.

Hilda, how can you possibly excuse all the evil that has been committed in the name of Christ? Did you feel the Crusades and the Inquisition in a "sensuous" way too?

"If men were like their personal ads, they wouldn't need personal ads."

HildaBingen

:Everyone has to have the God experience for herself.
What about men?:

I was speaking generically, hon.

:I know that my Redeemer liveth and you cannot take that away from me.[/i]
I, too, have readeth the King Jameth Verthion.:

Hast thou?

:Hilda, how can you possibly excuse all the evil that has been committed in the name of Christ? Did you feel the Crusades and the Inquisition in a "sensuous" way too?:

When did this mystic excuse evil done in Christ's name? You must remember that not everyone professing to be in christ is really in him.

I have experienced God. There is a world of difference between perceiving God and experiencing pseudo-christianity.

julien

It does not say that God brought futile existence upon humanity. It instead says that God allowed humanity to suffer a futile existence.

Is this like saying "I didn't light my children on fire officer. Instead I *allowed* them to play with matches. I didn't force the matches on them sir."

safe4kids

I have experienced God

We call that an orgasm

Dana

Undecided

Hi Hilda,

My brother-in-law did just fine and is home now.

Your view of God, is just in your imagination as with all religions. If you chose to conjure up a God to suit your experiences that is fine with me. If a real God existed that was concerned with mankind and how we viewed him it would seem to me he would at least give some concrete evidence and guidence that could be proven to be from him. There are about as many religions within the Christain faith as there are outside it. Which group has the real truth or do you just create your own? God's holy spirit I was lead to believe was directing his followers yet the religions that claim his guidence all change their doctrines, even the bible from the old days to the more recent one of Christ teachings. Does God keep changing his mind?

I just don't know what to believe as to a God and what he expects of us humans. I guess it will be settled when I die, I might not know it but it will be settled.

Ken P.