| Baldeagle8 said: I would recommend reading "The Hiding Place", the story of Corrie Ten Boom about her experiences of how God can be used for good even during the tragic times of world war 2. Great book regardless.
You can look at life through 2 different lens... We are here by random chance and those who face tragic events just got "unlucky" and there is no redemption or purpose for their life. Or, despite the brokenness of this world, there is still beauty that comes out of these tragic events with redemption for those who suffered unfairly.
I can say that most believers do struggle with the notion of the "why do these bad things happen", but it is through that friction and struggle that most become stronger people and closer to God. |
I'm sorry but this makes no sense to me. So what you are saying is that asking these very relevant questions like "Why do these bad things happen" get people closer to the very being that creates these bad things or at the very least allows the bad things to happen to people? What is this? Like some perverted version of the Stockholm Syndrome?
It's as if a victim of nazism said, only through asking the question: Why did Hitler do or allowed all these bad things to happen to us victims, only through asking such questions can we get stronger and closer to... Hitler!
So not only do religious people get no answer to that very fundamental question but asking it makes all the bad stuff magically go away and makes them get closer to the God that is at the origin of all their suffering, that's so illogical and at the same time such a very religious thing to do.
As for how to look at life, the second option that you state, looks pretty and ideal but as a freethinker and a truth seeker I cannot ignore the hardcore logic of the first option as demonstrated by all the evidence around us.
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