If There Is A God, Why Do So Many Bad Things Happen? Ecotrain QOTW

People always lament when bad things happen to good people. It's recurrent, and we huff at the fact that bad people skip those things. We try to look for answers, explanations that offer justification. But normally, we left with no clue. And this sometimes makes us question God.

And not his existence but rather his goodwill. Because most of the people who say that there's no God end up calling for him in times of need. So, assuming his existence, we should then understand him. And here's lies the big problem, which is the underlying meaning of the ecotrain question.

How to understand God? Wow, that is the most challenging attempt every human being could venture because it involves understanding ourselves and the purpose of our own existence. All the questions wise people have tried to answer through history derive from understanding God.

Concept of God

There's still this image of God about a bearded old man. And though many can claim that they know it's just an allegory in order to represent him, in their minds God's presence has earthly connotations.

We've seen and even done all these gestures about pointing upwards (thanking God) when something good happens as if heaven is literally a platform that is placed in the sky where God has his iron throne, and he looks down, probing earth everyday to see what his children are doing.

Naturally, all these beliefs come from home, school, and the church. Everyone is surrounded by many preconceptions that just give us a slight understanding, which always fall short. Nothing that we're told satisfies our curiosity and huger for knowledge.

So far, those who are really looking for answers are groping in the darkness. Maybe, when death come to us, everything will be revealed as it really is. No more imaginary and suppositions. Magic events will be so natural that we all laugh at ourselves on how blind our reasoning was.

Even part of me fights hard not to give God a masculine attribute. It's so vulgar to diminish God to this separation of gender... though I'll continue so to avoid repeating the same word.

Bad things

Every time when we go through hard times, we always pray God help us. But does God have to do it?

Many could assume that if God created us, he has responsibility. But using the same analysis, I can say that all the problems we get into are our own responsibility. So fair is fair.

I know that our hearts can go to those who suffer a lot. For instance, we've witnessed what the people from Africa have endured these last years, which we can't help question where God is.

It's shocking to see those poor African children with no food, weighting less than a dog, strolling bare feet on the streets. And then we asked ourselves: How can God let this happen?

I refuse to believe that even in those horrible scenarios, God is the only hand that has to fix our things. All those problems stem from human interventions. We have the resources to eliminate poverty and hunger in all regions on earth. But it is so easy to put that on God. That way we can dispel somehow our reluctance to do the right thing.

Where are we stand at

We have to understand that we are a tiny spec in the vast universe that expands every second. If we stop for a moment to think about all the bad things that happen in this planet, we just conclude how narrow our point of view is.

There are thousands and thousands of galaxies that harbor millions of planets. The cycles of stars end and another celestial bodies are born. So, the consequences of our life cannot be the only major concern in the universe. Sorry if I sound to hard on the humankind, but just like it was several years ago when people believed that the earth was the center of the universe, we now have to comprehend that we're not the only special living being in the cosmos.

So, God doesn't have to take care our problems. I think it doesn't work that way. What we see in the world is that every action carries a reaction (consequences). For example, when a natural disaster occurs, it's just the mother nature restoring balance... A river whose current rises, sweeping houses that are nearby is nature reclaiming his course. There's nothing evil in it.

Thus, let's solve the problems we create!

@edave

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