Understanding the Reason

How many times a day/week/month/year do we end up doing things without actually understanding the reason?

Is there a reason? Can there possible be a reason for everything?

What if there was. What if some omnipotent force had control over it all? What if that force was the meaning behind everything that happens?

Oh wait…there is....I think its name is God. Grant it, the design of a God is debatable…and many aspects of the debate have valid points in my opinion.

The fact is…no one knows. We can say we believe, we have faith, but we can’t say we know. Not for sure.

For the sake of argument let’s say there is a God.

So God has control over the universe, and has an understanding of all that happens and why, right? So what’s up with all the bad shit going on in the world?

Mormons have an interesting idea of why this happens. They believe in free agency; the idea that humans have the ability to choose how to behave and what to believe. We have the opportunity to choose right or wrong, in accordance to Mormon standards of course. Killing is wrong, but I’m going to elect to kill anyways. Obviously a drastic example, but it gets my point across.

So according to Mormon theory humans can choose to make the wrong decision; since God gave us that ability he doesn’t intervene. The rest of us have to deal with the fact that others are going to make bad, possible horrible, decisions that can in fact destroy our lives.

So what happens when there is no other human involvement? Someone, alone, has a fatal incident. What then? Does God consider the affect on those left behind?

Does He allow those things to happen in order to bring survivors closer to him? Sounds more like a human sacrifice for the good of the whole, right? Maybe that’s what it is…

Perhaps He stays out of affairs on Earth knowing that tragedy brings people closer to Him…for the most part. Of course there will always be people who blame Him and branch further than ever.

I do believe there’s a God. I’m not saying I don’t. I’m just trying to believe there’s more to this than a kid with a magnify glass on top an ant hill.

Huh…trying to understand an omnipotent being…kind of an oxymoron isn’t it?

I can’t stand religion when it begins defining what God is, and what He wants, what He thinks. Who the heck knows?! That’s the whole idea of Him being omnipotent! You just can’t stuff Him in a box. You just have to guess at it…so don’t try to tell me something’s fact.

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