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Why God permits absurdities and calamities to abound in this world
(Painting by Raphael – Galleria Palatina, Florence - Italy)
by Joseph Earnest November 28, 2011
Newscast Media, HOUSTON, Texas–It has often been said that peace nauseates those who always find a way to stir an undisturbed hornet's nest simply for the sake of self-satisfaction. There are also entities that create problems where none exist, because these imaginary problems are used as a conduit to exercise control over the unsuspecting participants and spectators of the power play involved. This article will focus on four schools of thought from which we can extract possible explanations as to why absurdities and calamities abound in this world.
The first school of thought believes, there is a clandestine orchestration by a powerful group of elite people, who are attempting to create a singular government in order to introduce a cashless society, since the golden rule states: "Whoever controls the [black] gold rules." The second school of thought believes, these absurdities and calamities are simply regional tensions across the world and should be regarded as such. The third school of thought believes there is a Luciferian force, namely the "Prince of Darkness" himself, who is orchestrating these calamities. The fourth and last school of thought believes it is the unseen hand of God that sustains and guides human destiny, which has permitted these absurdities to abound in our world.
Cicero tells us a story of two famous generals who were at war with one another. Many people could not make up their minds which side to support, which side it was in their best interest to support, which side it was their duty to support – and, in certain cases, which side it was even legally permissible to support. The winner, however, was not the sort of man whose enmities were fomented by success: on the contrary, his natural kindliness favored their mitigation or relief.
If people had earned his resentment, he did not necessarily believe they must be deserving of exile or death. Some of his foes laid down their weapons, others had them ripped from their hands. Nevertheless, it can be said that any man who is freed from the menace of arms, and yet still remains armed within his soul, is being ungrateful and unjust.
The question many ask is why God the supreme being, allows such absurdities like unnecessary endless wars, strife, war crimes and deprivation to exist. To answer that, we can look at the same question that Voltaire the great French writer was confronted with in his Philosophical Dictionary, and his answer was:
"God permits crime to happen but He does not commit it. To commit a crime is to act against Divine justice, therefore He cannot disobey himself. Just because God permits some men to be eaten by serpents, we ought not say that God made men to be eaten by serpents." (page 328).
Yet despite these contradictions in life, there are still some things that are universal to all people. In agreement with Voltaire, this journalist can say, wherever I traveled, I saw that man respected his father and mother; that he thought himself bound to keep his promise; that he pitied oppressed innocence; that he detested persecution; that he regarded freedom of thinking as a right of nature, and the enemies of that freedom, as the enemies of the human race. Add comments >>
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