Posted by Farmer on January 23, 2012 at 19:36:55
In Reply to: Re: God is cruel, God hates me posted by CB on January 23, 2012 at 15:54:05:
That's also what I wanted to hint at with "leadings"...miracles ...signs and wonders...as if the devil is not able to do them...e.g the Egyptian priests and also signs and miracles in the last days (Simon Magus also had some abilities)...how to know, which "god" did them...just by the signs without the big context???....the wrong people seek signs and wonders so to speak....or solely follow them, are attracted to them
Before I used to write down my "dreams" and "visions"...blah, blah...just some inflated ego...before TFI I was a bit into the occult..."strange" things happen...I used e.g. a pendulum
The Theodizee-problem/suffering in general gets solved differently by different "thinkers"...the atheist/unbeliever just says "bad luck"...bad coincidence...s.it just happens...the Hindu says...bad karma...just some bad repercussions from a bad former life...and the bitter "believer" says...God hates me...God is mean...the Calvinists justs says...God prefers one and rejects the other...He is supreme...His right.
And I am very sure, that the devil has no way of really "rewarding" people in the longrun
...on the other hand God inflicts some things on people, even His own people...or lets them happen for various reasons (Job also comes in mind...big testing of the devil), but for His children ultimately for the good...for His enemies, also in the final judgment, for their bad...as if that could be all discerned in one line...dear God help!