nothing? no-how?
there are some things that seem to have no purpose. Like the death of young people or the death of infants. Many ask God why, because it makes no sense or feels unfair to us, etc. . Accidents and murders, just watch the news you know what I'm talking about. I CERTAINLY DO feel the emotions that come from those kinds of things, like this week, but I also, when the emotions have settled, look at a lot of things as "just the way 'it' goes". .
Meaning: God set up the world to work within certain perameters, such as the laws of physics, emotional make-ups, etc.. Example: my friend Kevin. He probably used drugs because he liked the way they felt. They may also have salved some pain he had deep down, perhaps beyond his perception, so it felt good to be high in many dimentions. So naturally he would seek out different highs as he went on in life. ( man, I miss him!) He put too much of the chemical into his blood for his body to filter, so his heart stopped. That is why he died. The way God designed life is that if we experience things that are upsetting we feel pain, and if foreign chemicals are introduced we get sick. We have limitations built in, when those limitations are breeched, bad things happen, that's "how it is". Our physical world is amazingly crafted!
Because sin, pain, death and sadness weren't in God's intended creation and design of us, they have terrible effects on us.
Death especially. It hits us hard, shakes us way deep down in our spirits and souls, it sends emotional ripples out through large distances because we are eternal in our spirits and should be one, in harmony and peace in paradise. It hurts always, it's sad always, it sucks always.
Forgive me if this seems cold. I am in no way under any dilusions that death is meaningless. Nor am I trying to negate anyones sorrow for a lost one, I am familiar in some ways with the loss of a close one, having lost three good friends now and a couple people I was aquainted with in church on a regular basis. God always has a plan and reason, all I am saying is that I, PERSONALLY, am ok with not really worrying about why God allowed someting to happen because I feel we will never know some things. God always knows, therefore I rest in that alone.
Meaning: God set up the world to work within certain perameters, such as the laws of physics, emotional make-ups, etc.. Example: my friend Kevin. He probably used drugs because he liked the way they felt. They may also have salved some pain he had deep down, perhaps beyond his perception, so it felt good to be high in many dimentions. So naturally he would seek out different highs as he went on in life. ( man, I miss him!) He put too much of the chemical into his blood for his body to filter, so his heart stopped. That is why he died. The way God designed life is that if we experience things that are upsetting we feel pain, and if foreign chemicals are introduced we get sick. We have limitations built in, when those limitations are breeched, bad things happen, that's "how it is". Our physical world is amazingly crafted!
Because sin, pain, death and sadness weren't in God's intended creation and design of us, they have terrible effects on us.
Death especially. It hits us hard, shakes us way deep down in our spirits and souls, it sends emotional ripples out through large distances because we are eternal in our spirits and should be one, in harmony and peace in paradise. It hurts always, it's sad always, it sucks always.
Forgive me if this seems cold. I am in no way under any dilusions that death is meaningless. Nor am I trying to negate anyones sorrow for a lost one, I am familiar in some ways with the loss of a close one, having lost three good friends now and a couple people I was aquainted with in church on a regular basis. God always has a plan and reason, all I am saying is that I, PERSONALLY, am ok with not really worrying about why God allowed someting to happen because I feel we will never know some things. God always knows, therefore I rest in that alone.
posted by Jason at 8:58 PM
2 Comments:
jason - i agree with what you said, i think similarly about how God created earth and existance with certain parametres. ive never really been able to make my understanding of it into words though, and it hink you said it really well.
thank you. .I had help from my genius friend. He's the guy geting a doctorate in astro-physics. He introduced me to that idea of limitations and how they're built in and such. So realizing that and knowing God made it that way, got me thinking one day and now with kevin dying it brought it all back.
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