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Interesting. But would you stand and watch your child die of starvation, disease, neglect, dehydration if it was in your power to stop it. Would you stand and watch your children quarrel, fight and kill without intervention, as God chooses to do, simply that we may learn our lesson.
There is a difference between parentally granted independance, for the natural development and growth of our children and parental neglect.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The human race has had more than enough time to grow up and I dont like that Priest or the father of the child.

The answer to every problem on this planet already exists. We just dont all care to utilise the presents we have been given. It’s all there and some day a bunch of people are going to look back and wonder - why?

I have been reading a book and in it there was the question that we all ask whenever we get in a difficult situation.

I’ve can’t recall ever asking this except to try to follow along with the logic when I read it, but it seems there is something that makes sense in this idea of God being some entity that ought to prevent pain. In the sense that “God is Good”, then when I make a choice, if I am guided by highest Good (or God) it should result in less pain and more satisfaction.

God is just helping us to learn from our mistakes, so that we may fix them in the future. By making mistakes now, we are saving future generations.

It is only an example, so simple and of course doesn’t explain everything. But in lots of cases it applies to what’s going on.

I don’t claim having answers or saying that this is the right one, but it was an interesting answer. Some believe in that and others don’t.

paranoiaman wrote:
Interesting. But would you stand and watch your child die of starvation, disease, neglect, dehydration if it was in your power to stop it. Would you stand and watch your children quarrel, fight and kill without intervention, as God chooses to do, simply that we may learn our lesson.
There is a difference between parentally granted independance, for the natural development and growth of our children and parental neglect.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I think that parents interfer in so many ways whenever their children quarrel, fight, or kill each other. But you have to admit that only the children who choose to listen to the parents are the ones whose parent’s advice and parent’s interferance works and makes a difference. I think that some times, children wouldn’t listen and parents could not stop their children from hurting themselves or from suffering although they try. Not because they can not do that. But because the children have a right to choose between right and wrong. And I bet that no one would like to loose his right to choose between things. It wouldn’t be a delightful life then. I believe that God would have to deprive us from this right if people would really want to live in complete and perfect peace and happiness.

That’s only my opinion.

paranoiaman wrote:
Interesting. But would you stand and watch your child die of starvation, disease, neglect, dehydration if it was in your power to stop it. Would you stand and watch your children quarrel, fight and kill without intervention, as God chooses to do, simply that we may learn our lesson.
There is a difference between parentally granted independence, for the natural development and growth of our children and parental neglect.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

This response makes me proud to be your friend. I have nothing of any value to add here.