God's Plan
I wonder if we did everything right, if we loved our fellow man, and all living creatures, and all of God's creation, and we loved Jesus and God, and never sinned, if we did all of these things would there still be human suffering?
Right now if we look at our world, we can see that much human suffering is of human origin. The starvation in Africa for example, enough food is grown world wide to feed everything but it's not distributed where it's needed.
All the people who have died or been mutilated in war, the people we killed in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos to prevent communism from dominoing, (and what exactly would have happened if it had), or the people who have died in Iraq for oil company profits, suffering that didn't need to be.
At home all the cancer deaths that have resulted from various preventable things, cigarettes, bad food additives, and alll of the disease we could cure or at least better managed if the resources weren't wasted on are constitutes another huge group of preventable suffering.
I guess the big question I'm trying to get at, Does Gods plan require human suffering?
If we did everything according to God's plan, would we still have earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, forest fires, and other natural disasters? And if we did would they still harm us or would we somehow get out of the way?
The dreams I see of a changed earth in the Pacific Northwest, there are always two versions, and one version there is a lot of suffering, and the other changes still occur but they're gradual, gentle, give us warning to get out of the way and avoid harm.
Right now if we look at our world, we can see that much human suffering is of human origin. The starvation in Africa for example, enough food is grown world wide to feed everything but it's not distributed where it's needed.
All the people who have died or been mutilated in war, the people we killed in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos to prevent communism from dominoing, (and what exactly would have happened if it had), or the people who have died in Iraq for oil company profits, suffering that didn't need to be.
At home all the cancer deaths that have resulted from various preventable things, cigarettes, bad food additives, and alll of the disease we could cure or at least better managed if the resources weren't wasted on are constitutes another huge group of preventable suffering.
I guess the big question I'm trying to get at, Does Gods plan require human suffering?
If we did everything according to God's plan, would we still have earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, forest fires, and other natural disasters? And if we did would they still harm us or would we somehow get out of the way?
The dreams I see of a changed earth in the Pacific Northwest, there are always two versions, and one version there is a lot of suffering, and the other changes still occur but they're gradual, gentle, give us warning to get out of the way and avoid harm.







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