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If there were no risk takers, how would anything new begin? How would humanity progress?
LOVE AND FREEWILL.
Many people doubt the existence of God because of all the suffering that mankind has endured; surly a loving God would not allow this to happen. If you think life is a mess, try and think of all the options open to God in the way that he could create the universe and life.
We have a general knowledge about the workings of the universe and the history of life. This puts us in a unique position as it gives us the power of hindsight.
With your knowledge you now have the free choice to look for all the ways that life could be created; so there must be a greater way to create new life in a new universe.
For this exercise to have any meaning, there is a need to ask these questions from the creator’s point of view, so that you may experience the emotional conflict of creation for yourself. Only search for the greatest meaning and the greatest purpose as you read this, try and make allowances because it is written in human terms.
If I had the power of creation I could create all the beautiful stars and planets of the universe. I would become God the builder - would that satisfy my creative needs, or could I do more?
I could create a whole variety of life with almost no intelligence like plants; they will not cause me any grief with their conduct. I now become God the gardener - would that satisfy my creative needs, or could I do more?
I could create life with more intelligence to hunt for food, look for shelter, mate, and breed a future generation. If the knowledge and intelligence is limited and they do not have the freedom to love I have now created the animal kingdom. I am a farmer, a pet owner. Their behaviour should not cause me too much trouble, but how can I act in accordance with the ultimate truth by creating the animal kingdom?
As God I could create life with the means to gain knowledge and intelligence. As God I could create life in my own image, a life that could understand me. Creating life in my own image is the greatest form of creation open to me. I now become God the parent; my children must be real children to me in the literal sense. I can create nothing greater because I cannot create anything greater than myself.
As a parent, or as God the parent, would I put off having children in case they may become evil? I know that any children that I have will be open to the same kind of temptations and feelings that are open to me: greed, lust, anger, pride, envy, covetousness, sloth, and love. These are the temptations that we all can succumb to. As a parent, or as God the parent, with free will would I control my children and prevent them from making their own decisions, or would I teach them the difference between right and wrong and allow them to grow and make their own decisions? The choices open to any loving parent in creating life seem to be the same choices that were open to God. Can it be that we have the same needs as God when it comes to creating? It is not enough to be a builder, gardener, and farmer; there is a greater need to be a parent. As a parent, or as God the parent, I should love all of my children, even if they turn to murder and by their actions they show no love in return.
As God the mother or God the father, how do I give out free will? As the creator of life I have the freedom to choose between good and evil, as the creator I do not misuse this great power. If I pass it on, I know this gift can be abused; what choices are open to me?
I could withhold free will and create the ideal society where no one would succumb to the temptations. Everyone would work for the good of others, putting the needs of society before their own needs freely without argument. This would be like the ant society; there is no free will involved. As God, would I be satisfied in creating creatures with predictable behaviour and with no freedom to love like the ant society? Would mankind swap free will to live selflessly like ants, or can I create a greater way?
As God I could create life that is programmed to do anything as long as it is good and not harmful or offensive to anyone else. Would this be the greatest form of creation open to me? But how can they have the freedom to love?
I could create life on another planet the same as we have on Earth with total freedom to love. It is an awesome risk; I know that great things good and evil will happen if I do because I have already witnessed what happens on Earth.
We can be disturbed when we watch news programmes on the television and see in graphic detail the horrors and extreme conditions of life. These are God’s children, just imagine what God the parent must go through being the creator. He must feel responsible for all the good and evil that his children commit on Earth.
What kind of an emotional burden does humanity place on a loving God? It seems that God must pay a very high price emotionally to create children with the freedom to love.
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Is Freedom of Belief Orthodox? Jean Jaindl | Apr 6th, 2004
Though I am only on p. 16, this article is, on the whole, pretty logically layed out. However, I have detected some modernist tendencies (as condemned in Pius X's encyclical Pascendi), which I would like to question. God the mother? Really, this is quite unorthodox. Also, I cannot see how you or any other Catholic can say that we should not try to convert Musilims, Hindus, atheists, etc. to the one, true faith. Certainly God created us with the freedom to believe whatever we want to believe and to do whatever we want to do. Does that mean we have a right to do so in either case? Is it not owed to God that we serve Him in the way He has planned, and to attain to Heaven and the fullness of His love through the Church which He established? If it is owed to God to be loved, honored and obeyed by individuals, how much more so must He be obeyed by society, which is made up of these individuals? It is only through conversion to the truth that there is one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that we will achieve the social reign of Christ the King. This is very well outlined in The Social Reign of Christ the King by Fr. Fahey
-JJ
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