re: God Has A Plan For Your Life

quote:

---

If those things happen due to the chaotic nature of the universe then that sucks but there is no cosmic blame to pass around. You guys who put forth the idea that God hs a specific plan for each individual life end up saying some absolutely retarded shite trying to justify why a loving God would choose to put cancer in a kid’s body or know and ordain they’ll get sexually abused.

---

You should separate illness from sexual abuse. It's not difficult to understand the concept that God wills what is good for us (ie has a "plan") but leaves us free so that we may not be slaves, and that our freedom results in evils like sexual abuse.

And no sane person would argue that sexual abuse is "good", but I do argue that living and being sexually abused is better than not existing, because I believe in eternal life.

Painful illness and early death are harder to reconcile with a loving Creator, but if you recognize that suffering and death are just a feature of existence, and you aren't willing to call existence itself bad, then we have to accept that it's not perfect. And we Christians accept that we don't understand some of the things that occur. I personally don't think it makes sense to say "You gave me existence, but it was relatively short and relatively painful, therefore you are bad", when the alternative is non-existence.