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| Bheja |
Posted
on 07-Dec-01 04:08 PM
If God is all Loving, then why does evil events occur?
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| Ocean |
Posted
on 07-Dec-01 05:18 PM
.........,
God is nothing but Nature. Nature is the infinite universal set of time
and energy, having the general property of purpose-lessness, and uniqueness.
As part of the nature, all living organisms are a Subset of that
universal set. Every Subset must hold at least the general property
of its Superset.
In the contarary, from the very begining(existence of life), people have
been living as if they had some purposes to live. It is something like a Subset violating the proprty of Superset. This is the inner and subtle conflict
that have been byproducting all evils. It keeps continuing as long as
the Subset does not define it in eferecence to Superset.
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| guruDev |
Posted
on 07-Dec-01 05:43 PM
Mr/MRs/Ms Ocean,
Are you trying to say there is not going to be harmony anyway?
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| krishna |
Posted
on 07-Dec-01 05:44 PM
>If God is all Loving, then why does evil
>events occur?
One of the Great Questions, you have asked! My short answer is that God allows "evil" events to occur because God has imbued homo sapiens with free will. Even Jean Paul Sartre, the French existentialist, asserted that people are "condemned to freedom". To use a real-life example, the evil events of June 1, 2001, inside Narayanhiti did not transpire as a kind of revelation of pre-determined fate; instead, those events resulted from the confluence of numerous choices, conscious and subconscious.
Also, the previous respondant posits that God is Nature. I would argue that God is not Nature; rather, I believe God is in Nature and that Nature is in God. Pantheism AND panentheism. This is not inconsistent with the concept of "atman" (or is it "atma"?).
"Every grey cloud has a silver lining"
"Every silver lining's got a touch of grey"
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| sfengali |
Posted
on 07-Dec-01 09:57 PM
But god is not only all loving he is also omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient by design you can never infer what god "intends" or "wants" it is impossible to. Because of omipresence god is present in the past future and present, because of omnipotent he is acting in past, future and present and because of omniscience he knows past future and present. How do I know god is a he? I don't know. But this is what Aquinas said.
Hmm should we elevate to the higher reality? hey Daz how high is the ceiling?
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