The idea that God allows bad things to happen is inherently good. I could piss off and upset a lot of people by saying that.
But I would then ask them this, would you be the person you are today, the person with the knowledge you know and the wisdom you’ve gained and the empathy you’ve come to understand if you had not gone through all of the trials you’ve been through so far? Would you be the same person you are today if none of those terrible struggles and trials had ever happened?
My faith requires the belief that God is big enough to allow and even plan on bad things happening. In such truth I catch a glimpse of the magnitude of God. It is not that He is good and yet allows the bad but rather He is so good that He allows the bad. And of course never for arbitrary reasons but instead to bring about the capability of growth in our understanding of the true realm we come from.
A first realm, a realm beyond this one we have come to know. Because unlike this realm with all of its limitations, the first realm is so grand and absolute that even the concept of a good God so large that He has the capability to allow an opposite to Himself is not an idea beyond comprehension.
See when asking these questions like why does God allow evil, we are tapping into a separate world very far from our own yet living side by side with. This world is full of endless possibilities beyond what we could imagine so why do we even try to limit the probability of it. We should instead embrace the fact that there is a world beyond and answers beyond and possibilities beyond. Beyond all that our minds could form. We can’t even comprehend the size of the universe, yet we try to grasp the size of the One who hold it in His hands. But this should never stop us from asking the questions and pondering the vastness of creation and its Creator. This should instead open the floor to conversation.
Don’t you see, the reason we have such unknown conclusions is because God wants us to have a conversation with Him? He wants us to ask questions to be frustrated to lose faith and then regain it. He wants to be constantly in communication so He has allowed gaps in our minds and limits beyond our reach.
Our God is so big, He has allowed us to see the truth of light and darkness, good and evil, questions and sometimes answers, concepts without conclusions.
He is so vast and grand that we will never tire of searching to discover a new region of His territory.
But I would then ask them this, would you be the person you are today, the person with the knowledge you know and the wisdom you’ve gained and the empathy you’ve come to understand if you had not gone through all of the trials you’ve been through so far? Would you be the same person you are today if none of those terrible struggles and trials had ever happened?
My faith requires the belief that God is big enough to allow and even plan on bad things happening. In such truth I catch a glimpse of the magnitude of God. It is not that He is good and yet allows the bad but rather He is so good that He allows the bad. And of course never for arbitrary reasons but instead to bring about the capability of growth in our understanding of the true realm we come from.
A first realm, a realm beyond this one we have come to know. Because unlike this realm with all of its limitations, the first realm is so grand and absolute that even the concept of a good God so large that He has the capability to allow an opposite to Himself is not an idea beyond comprehension.
See when asking these questions like why does God allow evil, we are tapping into a separate world very far from our own yet living side by side with. This world is full of endless possibilities beyond what we could imagine so why do we even try to limit the probability of it. We should instead embrace the fact that there is a world beyond and answers beyond and possibilities beyond. Beyond all that our minds could form. We can’t even comprehend the size of the universe, yet we try to grasp the size of the One who hold it in His hands. But this should never stop us from asking the questions and pondering the vastness of creation and its Creator. This should instead open the floor to conversation.
Don’t you see, the reason we have such unknown conclusions is because God wants us to have a conversation with Him? He wants us to ask questions to be frustrated to lose faith and then regain it. He wants to be constantly in communication so He has allowed gaps in our minds and limits beyond our reach.
Our God is so big, He has allowed us to see the truth of light and darkness, good and evil, questions and sometimes answers, concepts without conclusions.
He is so vast and grand that we will never tire of searching to discover a new region of His territory.
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