Comments on: God’s Will http://www.garrettboon.com/life/gods-will www.garrettboon.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: Papa B http://www.garrettboon.com/life/gods-will/comment-page-1#comment-53 Papa B Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:00:32 +0000 http://www.garrettboon.com/prairie/gods-will/#comment-53 Excellent question, asked by deep thinking people throughout man's history. Pain and suffering is a worthy study and never simple. Buddha struggled with this very question. His answer required some assumptions. One of those assumptions is something like "pain is always bad". Garrett, keep asking and studying. Don't accept easy answers. The book of Job, perhaps the oldest book in the Bible, asks about the reason for suffering. God's eternal purpose is not something man will completely understand without becoming equal to God. ( no, this is not a cop-out, as some have suggested). Man's free will (part of us humans different from the rest of creation) must somehow fit into this purpose of His as well. The Bible is voluminous, and rightly so. One read through, like anything worthwhile, won't be sufficient for understanding. (In fact, because it does require much effort to study, the vast majority of people never really study it, hence have a lot of misunderstandings and may learn partial truthes. This is one of the reasons for so much "disagreement". Keep asking the hard questions and examine the evidence. God Bless You! Excellent question, asked by deep thinking people throughout man’s history. Pain and suffering is a worthy study and never simple. Buddha struggled with this very question. His answer required some assumptions.

One of those assumptions is something like “pain is always bad”.

Garrett, keep asking and studying. Don’t accept easy answers. The book of Job, perhaps the oldest book in the Bible, asks about the reason for suffering.

God’s eternal purpose is not something man will completely understand without becoming equal to God. ( no, this is not a cop-out, as some have suggested). Man’s free will (part of us humans different from the rest of creation) must somehow fit into this purpose of His as well.

The Bible is voluminous, and rightly so. One read through, like anything worthwhile, won’t be sufficient for understanding. (In fact, because it does require much effort to study, the vast majority of people never really study it, hence have a lot of misunderstandings and may learn partial truthes. This is one of the reasons for so much “disagreement”.

Keep asking the hard questions and examine the evidence. God Bless You!

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