Why does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?
(Part 3)
Ever look down from an airplane and see all of the roads and houses, all lined up. It's like a network, isn't it? A network that connects us. Especially telephone wires, and underground cables. Communication has always been important to us. Connection. Not a single one of us could live on a deserted island alone for years without suffering for a need of a companion. We'll go insane!
Choices.
God states a lot of: "If you do this..." then "this will happen..." He leaves the choice up to us with FULL disclosure of what will happen.
All of Levititus 26 is filled with choices and a covenant with God. These are paths that these particular people should, or should not, CHOSE TO ACCEPT. Those particular people, if they chose NOT to follow the commandments, would begin feeling the pain of not having God around AND feeling God's anger (which was pretty harsh when you read it). The harshness was just a way to make them understand the vital importance it was to keep the covenant. If they messed it up, He was going to do some punishing!Why was it so harsh? Because, they needed it! Time and time again, you can read stories in the Bible about people being directly spoken to by God and they STILL didn't obey. With just a mutated species such as that, you have to be harsh to get them were they're suppose to be! Their choices is what is affecting us today!
All of the: "If you do this..." then "this will happen..." also applies to us.1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek Him, He will be found of thee; but if thou forsake Him, He will cast thee off for ever.
That above quote…More of those "If this..." then "This will happen..." things.
Our choices, everything sinful and evil that WE do, is what everything around us will do too. The Native Indians had it right. Everything is connected, which means, we're connected to everything we see and feel and think.
If we are FUBAR*, than that makes the animals FUBAR and that makes the land FUBAR. Tsunami? Earthquakes? Hurricanes? Tornadoes? Winters? Summers? Floods? Droughts? All of that is cause from generation-to-generation FUBAR decisions. And I'm not talking about pollution, that's just another FUBAR decision we all made. I'm talking about all the killing and hate and pain we've caused each other over millenniums (Isaiah 59). You've just GOT to read Isaiah 59. It explains how FUBAR we are, and it might just clarify to you why God was so harsh.
We are powerful. Powerful enough to make everything around us FUBAR.
Everything.
2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
NOTE: I know the word FUBAR is pretty bad, but it's the best acronym to describe "What a mess" we're in. What we think, what we do, what we are…affects EVERYTHING we can see, hear, and touch. WE affect all life.
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
Scientologists belief that we're immortal beings who have forgotten our true nature is partially right. We were immortal beings who were like God. God created us that way. He created us with power. As Adam said in the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Apocalypse of Adam, knowledge left him and Eve around the time that they began to feel their immortality. But some of it still lingers within us, and because we're so mutated, it then spills out like sewer pipes, and corrupts the land and air and beasts.
BUT… God is working within these FUBAR decisions of ours, finding the people who can make His plan work to lead us back to the way--the right path.
Romans 8:26-2826 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
According to His purpose... "The will of God..."
The Plan.
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