If you accept the Abrahamic narrative of God and His attributes, you would have to accept that everything necessarily and logically happens for a reason.
If we believe this, then our suffering has meaning, even if our fallen civilisation is but a warning to future generations.
The attributes of God are omnipotence, omniscience, supremacy, uniqueness and omnibenevolence who knows our hearts and minds and occasionally answers prayers. If we trust in God, we will believe that whatever injustice we suffer in this life will be made good in the next.
Suffering therefore has meaning even if we cannot quite work out just yet why we are being punished.
Jews and Muslims understand this well enough, but dumb ex-Christians seem to think that this testing ground is already heaven and when things go wrong, regard this as licence to break God's laws assuming He has left the building and is never coming back.
AND NOBODY CORRECTS THEM.
If we believe this, then our suffering has meaning, even if our fallen civilisation is but a warning to future generations.
The attributes of God are omnipotence, omniscience, supremacy, uniqueness and omnibenevolence who knows our hearts and minds and occasionally answers prayers. If we trust in God, we will believe that whatever injustice we suffer in this life will be made good in the next.
Suffering therefore has meaning even if we cannot quite work out just yet why we are being punished.
Jews and Muslims understand this well enough, but dumb ex-Christians seem to think that this testing ground is already heaven and when things go wrong, regard this as licence to break God's laws assuming He has left the building and is never coming back.
AND NOBODY CORRECTS THEM.
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