The Answer
Pretty commonly, folks ask questions like "how can you believe in a god that would allow X to happen?" I've stumbled across this answer a few times, but pretty commonly forget. I'm not clear why I forget every other year or so.
I'm listening to General Conference today, while I fly around mining saronite in World of Warcraft. One of the gentlemen speaking - I'm doing the audio feed, which doesn't provide any information about who is speaking - made some comments that remind me of the answer.
If it was easy to believe, anyone could do it. Not that God doesn't want everyone. But he wants you to work at it a fair bit. Mortal life is like CS 153 at BYU in 1994 - weed and feed.
This life is a small thing. This life is preparatory for what really matters, for what is to come. The children who suffer so that you and I have to overcome the fact that this world is completely expurgate expurgating insane will be lifted up, so much so that they will look back on the horror of their mortality as a good thing.
I'm ok with that answer. I can understand if you feel it is incomplete.
If I could keep this concept foremost in my mind, I think I could force my life to be different.
I'm listening to General Conference today, while I fly around mining saronite in World of Warcraft. One of the gentlemen speaking - I'm doing the audio feed, which doesn't provide any information about who is speaking - made some comments that remind me of the answer.
If it was easy to believe, anyone could do it. Not that God doesn't want everyone. But he wants you to work at it a fair bit. Mortal life is like CS 153 at BYU in 1994 - weed and feed.
This life is a small thing. This life is preparatory for what really matters, for what is to come. The children who suffer so that you and I have to overcome the fact that this world is completely expurgate expurgating insane will be lifted up, so much so that they will look back on the horror of their mortality as a good thing.
I'm ok with that answer. I can understand if you feel it is incomplete.
If I could keep this concept foremost in my mind, I think I could force my life to be different.