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[quote=Anonymous]I am reminded of similar questions about the dualism of predistination and free will answered by jeffery lang using the notion of God’s ability to be outside the time-space limits we are in. it is difficult to understand a God’s will who is not bound by the laws he has created or the grammar we use to gleam off the timeless messages he inspires in our heart, to bring us closer to him. that is the ultimate purpose of life. God’s forewarns us of a future by talking in past, or talks of a past that hasn’t happened yet, revealing His omnipotence, allowing humans only experiential knowledge of Divine providence.

He did not create anything for sports, as he reveals in the Quran, then why does He not interfere for the thousands of starving people or why does He choose a fragile mother of three to test in bagram, the belly of the beast so to speak? the answer is not simply one of experimental design, it is profoundly spiritual for both the sufferers and those who come to inflict it or witness it. I think the dichotomy of living a life that has unforseen consequences even if you did nothing yourself to earn your misery/reward, makes it all the more meaningful when you see yourself time-bound by an obligation to serve God, no matter what.

One more thing, the popular notion of good and evil is as per the perception of our material body: Good = what causes us comfort and pleasure; Evil = what causes us pain and suffering. Whereas, when you consider the soul, and a Creator beyond this material universe from which it came, and that material things in this universe at its smallest level are a function of natural laws of physics and thus mean nothing in themselves, then you will understand that Good = what brings a closer distance to Creator and; Evil = what takes us further from Creator.

It this way one would immediately see that no matter what happens in life then, whether extremely pleasurable or horrific, means nothing in itself, but its meaning can be good or evil depending on whether you use it to become closer or further from God.

I reflect on the many other living things in this world, many of which are threatened and killed or suffer in the millions either in natural cycles or by humans, all the insects and wildlife and grass and weeds and trees, and we consider this to be ‘natural laws’ – it is only humans who think of all living things we should be exempted from such natural laws, and when we go through the ups and downs experienced by every thing in nature, we think some of it is an ‘evil’ when it happens to us.

This is not to say that we should be cruel to one another, but just to point out that we don’t usually have perspective when we judge what is good and evil. Things like the Holocaust are undoubtedly evil, not actually because of the amount of suffering involved, but because they are things that were the result of so many people being so far from their Creator, and perhaps caused many more to die or survive in such distance as well. But for those who suffered who, because of their suffering became closer to their Creator and died in that state, surely for them despite the evil of their oppressors, they have obtained the greatest good, from exactly the same material event.[/quote]

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