Month: December 2012

How Could God Let This Happen

EarthI have in my life time heard the words “how could God let this happen?”, “if God really existed why would He not stop this?”, “if God is perfect then how did He create imperfect creatures such as mankind and the fallen angels?” and many other similar statements.  I have had my times of questions about my personal life and my loved ones around me.  I started the journey to try to understand an answer to these questions.

I went back to the earliest time I could find about God and mankind.  In reading the beginning chapters of Genesis I found God created man in his own image. Everything He put into mankind and creation was perfect without pain, sorrow, hate, suffering, and any other things you may consider flaws or short comings. One of the perfect parts God put into us and angels is “free will“. Without “free will” all would be like machines with no consciousness to choose varieties of paths, foods, or colors. I never looked at “free will” being something counted in God’s eyes as a perfect element.

The angels have “free will“.  They are not machines without eyes that see and ears that hear. They are not mechanically locked into a function that the freedom of choice is null and void.  Thus, I have read about one mighty angel made a “free will” choice to do his own thing against God’s perfect system, which got him and his fellow angels that followed him kick out of Heaven. There were consequences for their “free will” choice. You and I make choices everyday that once we have made them of our own “free will” there is no taking it back and the end results will bring us good or bad. This is what happen to the angels once they made that “free will” choice the taking it back was impossible because of the eternal substance they were made of. There was nothing in angels that was temporary. They were thru and thru eternal beings. Their choices were final according to the Bible. They chose to corrupt their perfect element of “free will” thus issuing into the existence of darkness.

Mankind was created with the perfect element of “free will“. It is amazing to read and think about the total freedom mankind had in the beginning. The world was open for man to do with whatever he wanted with only one restriction. Only one rule not to break for it would bring death. God had experienced angels taking their perfect element of “free will” and making bad choices. God tried to warn mankind about this one rule not to break for it would bring death to mankind and all under his rule (animals, plants, water, and earth). At this point before man corrupted his perfect element of “free will” the earth was free of what we see today (disease, sickness, pain, murder, death…).  Mankind took his perfect element of “free will” and pointed it in the direction of breaking the one rule in the entire world against God’s warning. This brought death into mankind and into all living things in the earth, but God created mankind half eternal substance and half temporary substance (one part of the dust of the earth and the other part from God’s eternal spirit). We have a chance whereas the angels do not to change for the better.

“How Could God Let This Happen?” question is answered by God locking Himself into NOT overriding what He counts as one of His perfect elements – “free will“. He left it up to the eternal angels and mankind (overseers of the earth) to do what they will with their choices of “free will“. The awful things that happen in this world comes from the “free will” choice man made for all and the earth in the beginning of time. Now, I do understand God does step in for somethings, which is pure Grace on His part and for His reasons. All evil that befalls us is the life is not God’s fault, but a result of bad choices by our ancestors. It is like the statement “I don’t go to church because it is full of hypocrites.” Hypocrites are people who have chosen to take their perfect element of “free will” and corrupt it with using God and church as a cover up for their evil ways, but they are the guilty ones for making the choice not God. It is not God’s fault. You and I choose everyday how we shall live that day by listening to good influences or bad influences. The perfect element of “free will” God cut loose and gave into our control has haunted us from the beginning of time for the wrong choices and will continue to haunt us for generations.

My dad was a good father, husband, and worker. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer disease, which I went through the “How could God let this happen to my dad – a good man?” questions. It was not God’s choice, but man’s “free will” choice that brought all evil, passed down upon all of us as a curse from the beginning of time for all generations to face. Some people good or bad have grace fall upon them like the rain falls upon the good people and the bad people. I am not mad at God for the disease. I am mad at the evil that is among us due to bad choices made at the beginning of time, but God has provided a way of escape, which is another topic.

We can create all the laws we can think of, but it will not totally filter out the “free will” choices people will make within or without the law. We can have all our hospitals, schools, governments, job sites, and neighborhoods filled with EMT’s and Police, but this will not stop the “free will” of choices people will make contrary to the healthiness of life and others. It will place more good people in harms way of those who choose to inflict upon others their bad choices.

I never looked at the “free will” being a perfect element in mankind from God due to all the things we see daily in the news from those who use their “free will” to hurt, kill, swindle, deceive, manipulate the innocent of others without regret or remorse. I now understand it is not God’s fault when it comes to our “free will“. Mankind has it within himself the God given “free will” to choose the path of doing good or doing selfish acts of evil. I hope this has shined a little light on “How could God let this happen?” questions.  Have a great day in-spite of what comes your way.

Cards of Life (The Beginning)

Photo07231416We live every day dealing with the “hand that has been dealt” to us. Any time throughout our day it can be normal, good, or bad. I have heard others say the words “We have to work with the hand that has been dealt us” liken unto a card game of life. Games are built for someone to win in the end. Winning can be defined by how you react to the cards of life handed to you.
As I began to think about the cards of life, I realized when we are born with certain cards automatically. When we came into existence there were cards already dealt to us to deal with. We have a birth card. We have a mental card. We have a physical card. We have a spirit card (our inward person). We have a death card. Each one of these cards comes with conditions of normal, good, or bad.
Our birth card is out of our control as to what condition it came with, but nonetheless we have to manage it for the rest of our lives. Our birth card can be something we are proud of, ashamed of, or could care less about, but it is a “history” card that cannot be changed. The birth card should not hold us down personally because it has been played and replaced with another card of life. We have to move on with life and forge for ourselves to the best of our ability the life we want to possess. The birth card is a history card and you are living in the present, which is a gift to be different and better.
The mental card that was given us is comes in a variety of packages for all of us. Whether you have been in school or not the comparison of our mental card is revealed when around others. In class, there were the ones who knew the answers to the questions the teacher asked being dealt the good mental card, the ones who knew about half the answers, and the ones who struggled with keeping up with the material being taught. The mental card is played and replaced throughout the stages in life and they are revealed by the choices we have made. Some choices we made were normal choices, some were good, and some were bad. If you look into your past at the mental card you will see the times you were on top of things, playing catch up, or totally lost. This mental card is something you can work with at the level of intelligence you was handed. The road you travel with this card is in your hands to deal with on a daily basis. With the mental card, you can make yourself valuable by what you replace it. Keep flipping this card for the rest of your life reaching for the highest card that can be dealt to you.
The physical card we receive at birth comes in different shape and sizes. Some are born with athletic bodies, handicapped bodies, average bodies, or frail bodies. This card can only be discarded through life so many times because we are what we are and to change it beyond what its capability puts it in danger of falling down. You and I have had to deal with either being picked on and stuffed in a locker at school, being made fun of what we dressed our bodies, or being revered as a hero in sports. Again, this is a card that changes throughout our life continually. I find myself through life seeing others in different stages of life with the physical card they have been handed and it caused me to slow down to think I was going to be given a similar card as I approached their age. It is sobering thoughts to realize the past card, present card, and the future physical hard that will be, not if, but will be given to you. This helps the mental card to get itself ready for the day a different card is dealt to you. Work on the physical card within your means with an attitude of you can only do what you can do, but it is great while you can do it. This has a releasing power to what has been dealt you in the cards of life.
The spirit card is what I refer to as the inward person that is truly driving the exterior body. We are inside the bodies thinking thoughts that no other physical person can hear. The spirit card inside the physical bodies can crank a will power from within that science can only take a guess at for an explanation. I hope you have experienced that unexplainable feeling that comes from deep within you to the surface whether it was in a game, a moment of total inspiration, or in the instant of an emergency. The spirit card is where you and I look out through the eyes, hear through the ears, smell through the nose, taste through the tongue, and touch through the skin processing it into an invisible database within our minds and hearts. The spirit card is where people can hide agendas, contemplate actions, and devise what they are going to do before others can find out. The spirit card becomes our personal database to who we are and no human being can access its information, but we can call upon it anytime and anywhere. The spirit card can be inward joy, pain, sorrow, depression, happiness, optimism and many other stored demeanors. This card is changed to other types of spirit cards. We have to guard this card as to what it is replaced with and to handle it with a desire to better it for the rest of our life. This is the card that is our internal roommate for life – memories.
The death card is like the birth card. This card will only truly happen for the last time. People have had narrow escapes to laying this card down for the final play of the game and have had the chance for the card to be put back into their hand for the not yet. You and I have seen this card played from the young, the middle aged, to the elderly. This card is normally the unknown card that has been dealt us. None of us truly knows what is floating around in our bodies, around the next corner, or waiting for us down the road. The death card is mostly avoided in the card game of life because of its finality once played. We do not want to think of it, but it is our hand with the rest of the cards we have received. Man has not been able to get rid of this card from the riches to the poorest this card remains in all of our hands. This card should make all of us live a daily life without our spirit card being filled with as few regrets as possible. You will only play this card game of life once and when the last card has been laid down your memories will be all that is left in others spirit cards whether good or bad. Play that last card with all the good integrity you can accumulate in your lifetime and you will have passed onto the other gamers the right way to handle the cards that were dealt you in life.